WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS;

WITH

HIS LIFE,

BY

ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

"HIGH CHIEF of Scottish Song
That could'st alternately impart
Wisdom and rapture in thy page,

And brand each vice with satire strong;

Whose lines are mottoes of the heart,

Whose truths electrify the sage."

CAMPBELL

IN EIGHT VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.

11, WATERLOO PLACE.

1834.

[Those Pieces thus marked, appear for the first time in an
edition of Burns' Works.]

WRITTEN IN A COPY OF HIS POEMS...................

*ON THE DEATH OF DUNDAS OF ARNISTON

ON THE DEATH OF JOHN M'LEOD........

TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS

THE AMERICAN WAR; A FRAGMENT...

THE DEAN OF FACULTY; A NEW BALLAD...........................

TO A LADY, WITH A PAIR OF DRINKING-GLASSES....

CLARINDA..............................

WRITTEN UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF FERGUSSON

SKETCH OF A CHARACTER

To MRS. SCOTT, OF WAUCHOPE

EPISTLE TO WILLIAM CREECH...

HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER..................................

ON SCARING WATER-FOWL IN LOCH TURIT.......

WRITTEN IN AN Inn at KenmoRE, TAYMOUTH

WRITTEN AT THE FALL OF FYERS...

To Wм. TYTLER, OF WOODHOUSELEE..

*ON FRIARS'-CARSE HERMITAGE (first copy).....

ON FRIARS'-CARSE HERMITAGE (second copy)....

TO CAPTAIN RIDDEL, ON RETURNING A NEWSPAPER

A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON..

EPISTLE TO GRAHAM, OF FINTRAY...

ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER Blair...............

*EPISTLE TO HUGH PARKER

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PROLOGUE SPOKEN AT THE DUMFRIES THEATRE...... 115

SCOTS PROLOGUE FOR MR. SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT 118

SKETCH.-NEW YEAR'S DAY.......