THE

WORKS

OF THE

BRITISH POETS,

WITH

LIVES OF THE AUTHORS.

EDITED BY

ROBERT WALSH, JR.

VOL. XXXIX.

BURNS AND MACNEILL,

PHILADELPHIA :

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL F. BRADFORD,

FOR

JOHN LAVAT

William Brown, Printer.

TILDEN LIERARA

1895

CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXIX.

BURNS' POEMS.

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How cruel are the parents,

Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion,

I see a form, I see a face,

To Mr. Cunningham-Now Spring has clad,

&c.

O bonnie was yon rosy brier,

'Tis friendship's pledge, my young, fair friend,

Forlorn, my love, no comfort near,

Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang

glen,

Fragment—Why, why tell thy lover,

Hey for a lass wi' a tocher,

Altho' thou maun ne'er be mine,

Full well thou know'st I love thee dear,

The Birks of Aberfeldy,

Stay my charmer; can you leave me?

Strathallan's Lament,

The Young Highland Rover,

Raving Winds around her blowing,

Musing on the roaring Ocean,

Blithe was she,

A Rose-bud by my early walk,

Where braving angry Winter's Storms,

Tibbie, I hae seen the day,

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Clarinda,

The day returns, my bosom burns,

The Lazy Mist,

0, were I on Parnassus' hill,

I love my Jean,

The braes o’ Ballochmyle,

Willie brew'd a pack o' maut,

The blue-eyed lassie,

The banks of Nith,

John Anderson my jo,

Tam Glen,

My tocher's the jewel,

Then guidwife count the lawin,

What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man,

The bonnie wee thing, .

0, for ane and twenty, Tam!

Bess and her spinning wheel,

Country Lassie,

Fair Eliza,

The Posie,

The banks o’ Doon,

Sic a wife as Willie had,

Gloomy December, .

Wilt thou be my dearie ?

She's fair and fause, .

Afton Water,

onnie Bell,

The gallant Weaver,

Louis what reck I by thee?

For the sake of Somebody,

The lovely lass of Inverness,

The Mother's lament for the death of her Son,

O May, thy morn,

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