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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: robert burns Matches Found: 658 A BARD'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there a whim-inspired fool Last Line: Is wisdom's root. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers A BOTTLE AND A FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a bottle and an honest friend Last Line: And comes not aye when sought, man. Subject(s): Friendship A CHILD'S GRACE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some hae meat and canna eat Last Line: And sae the lord be thankit. Variant Title(s): Grace Before Eating;a Selkirk Grace;kirkcudbright Grace;grace At Kirkcudbright Subject(s): Holidays; Prayer; Thanksgiving A DEDICATION TO GAVIN HAMILTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Expect na, sir, in this narration Last Line: Then, sir, your hand -- my friend and brother! A DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guid-mornin' to our majesty Last Line: Fu' clean that day. Subject(s): Dreams; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares A FAREWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, dear friend! May guid luck hit you Last Line: Good lord, deceive him! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting A FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No cold approach, no altered mien Last Line: He made me blest -- and broke my heart. Subject(s): Love - Complaints A GRACE BEFORE DINNER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, who kindly dost provide Last Line: Lord, bless us with content. Amen! Subject(s): Grace A MOTHER'S LAMENT [FOR THE DEATH OF HER SON], by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate gave the word, the arrow sped Last Line: With him I love, at rest! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies A NEW PSALM FOR THE CHAPEL OF KILMARNOCK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sing a new song to the lord Last Line: Thou kens we get as little. Subject(s): Holidays; Thanksgiving A POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou's welcome wean, mishanter fa' me Last Line: An' think't weel war'd. Subject(s): Daughters; Parents; Parenthood A POETICAL EPISTLE TO A TAILOR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ails ye now, ye lousie bitch Last Line: On my oppression. A PRAYER IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou unknown almighty cause Last Line: Delighteth to forgive. Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The A PRAYER, UNDER THE PRESSURE OF ANGUISH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou great being! What thou art Last Line: To bear and not repine! A RED, RED ROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, my love's [or, luv's] like a red, red rose, / that's newly sprung in june Last Line: Tho' it were ten thousand mile. Subject(s): Absence; Flowers; Love; Love - Marital; Metaphor; Passion; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Similes A ROSE-BUD BY MY EARLY WALK, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Youth; Beauty A TOAST, ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF RODNEY'S VICTORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of a song, boys, I'll give you a toast Last Line: May his son be a hangman -- and he his first trial! Subject(s): Rodney, George Brydges. Baron Rodney A TRIBUTE TO THE GENIUS OF ROBERT BURNS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As in the lone sequestered grove Last Line: The wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets A VERSE ON HIGHLAND HOSPITALITY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death's dark stream I ferry o'er Last Line: Than just a highland welcome. Subject(s): Hospitality A WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When biting boreas, fell and doure Last Line: The most resembles god. Subject(s): Winter ADDRESS FOR MISS FONTENELLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still anxious to secure your partial favour Last Line: And as we're merry, may we still be wise. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face Last Line: Gie her a haggis! Variant Title(s): To A Haggis Subject(s): Food & Eating ADDRESS TO A LADY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, wert thou in the cauld blast Last Line: Wad be my queen, wad be my queen ADDRESS TO BEELZEBUB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long life, my lord, an' health be yours Last Line: An' till ye come -- your humble servant, Subject(s): Freedom; Scotland - Relations With England; Liberty ADDRESS TO DUMOURIER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're welcome to despots, dumourier Last Line: Then we'll be damn'd, no doubt, dumourier. Subject(s): Army - France ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edina, scotia's darling seat! Last Line: I shelter in thy honour'd shade. Subject(s): Edinburgh, Scotland ADDRESS TO THE DEIL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Whatever title suit thee! / auld hornie, satan, nick, or clootie Subject(s): Devil; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub ADDRESS TO THE DEIL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear me, auld hangie, for a wee Last Line: And cheat you yet ADDRESS TO THE SHADE OF THOMSON THE POET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While virgin spring, by eden's flood Last Line: Proclaims that thomson was her son. Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748) ADDRESS TO THE TOOTHACHE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My curse upon thy venom'd stang Last Line: A fowmond's toothache! Variant Title(s): To The Toothache Subject(s): Teeth; Toothaches ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye wha are sae guid yoursel Last Line: But know not what's resisted. Variant Title(s): To The Unco Guid Subject(s): Freedom; Hypocrisy; Liberty ADDRESS TO THE WOODLARK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay Last Line: Or my poor heart is broken. Variant Title(s): To The Woodlark Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks ADDRESSED TO A LADY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rusticity's ungainly form Last Line: Th' ungentle, harsh rebuke. ADOWN WINDING NITH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adown winding nith I did wander Last Line: Awa' wi' your belles, &c. AFTON WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, among thy green braes Last Line: Flow gently, sweet afton, disturb not her dream. Variant Title(s): Sweet Afton Subject(s): Afton (river), Scotland; Inland Waters; Love; Rivers AH, CHLORIS, SINCE IT MAY NOT BE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AH, WOE IS ME! MY MOTHER DEAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last Line: By lad and lass blackguarded! Subject(s): Self AMANG THE TREES WHERE HUMMING BEES, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Trees AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The laddies by the banks o' nith Last Line: Up and waur them, &c. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage AN' O MY EPPIE, MY JEWEL, MY EPPIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love AND MAUN I STILL ON MENIE DOAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again rejoicing nature sees Last Line: When nature all is sad like me! Subject(s): Nature; Spring AND WHEN MY NIGHTLY COUCH I TRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Sleep ANNA, THY CHARMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Anna, thy charms my bosom fire Last Line: So much in sight of heaven. AS DOWN THE BURN THEY TOOK THEIR WAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love AS I WAS A WANDERING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was a wand'ring ae midsimmer e'enin' AULD LANG SYNE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should auld acquaintance be forgot Last Line: For auld lang syne. Variant Title(s): The Goal Of Life;auld Lang Syne (with Music) Subject(s): Friendship; Holidays; New Year; Reunions AULD ROB MORRIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's auld rob morris that wons in yon glen Last Line: As now my distraction nae words can express. AWA' WHIGS, AWA', by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography AY WAUKIN, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Simmer's a pleasant time, / flowers of every colour Last Line: Ay waukin &c. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Summer; Thought; Thinking BALLAD OF THE FADED FIELD, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broad bars of sunset-slanted gold Last Line: But beauty's soul abideth still. BANKS OF CREE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the glen, and here the bower Last Line: Along the flowery banks of cree. BANKS OF DEVON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant the banks of the clear-winding devon Last Line: Where devon, sweet devon, meandering flows. Subject(s): Rivers BANKS OF NITH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, lov'd nith, thy gladsome plains BANNOCKS O' BARLEY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bannocks o' bear meal Last Line: Bannocks o' bear meal, &c. BEHOLD THE HOUR (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold the hour, the boat arrive Last Line: "o tell me, does she muse on me!" Subject(s): Farewell; Parting BESS AND HER SPINNING-WHEEL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O leeze me on my spinning-wheel Last Line: Of bessy at her spinnin' wheel? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Spinning; Work; Workers BLINK O'MARY'S EE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now bank an' brae arew claith'd in green BLITHE HAE I BEEN ON YON HILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BLYTHE AND MERRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blythe, blythe and merry was she Last Line: Blythe, blythe, &c. BONIE BELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smiling spring comes in rejoicing Last Line: I adore my bonnie bell. Subject(s): Spring BONNIE ANN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gallants bright, I rede you right Last Line: Beware o' bonnie ann! Subject(s): Beauty BONNIE LESLEY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye bonnie lesley Last Line: There's nane again sae bonnie. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation BONNIE MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go fetch to me a pint o' wine Last Line: It's leaving thee, my bonnie mary! Variant Title(s): Before Parting;a Farewell;my Bonnie Mary;the Silver Tassie;my Bonie Mary Subject(s): Farewell; Glasses (tumblers); Parting BONNIE PEG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I came in by our gate end BRAW LADS O' GALLA WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, braw lads on yarrow braes Last Line: O that's the chiefest warld's treasure. Subject(s): Rivers BURNS, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild rose of alloway! My thanks Last Line: The name of robert burns? Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets BURNS - EXTEMPORE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye true 'loyal natives,' attend to my song Last Line: But where is your shield from the darts of contempt! BUT LATELY SEEN IN GLADSOME GREEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BUT PLEASURES ARE LIKE POPPIES SPREAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or, like the rainbow's lovely form %evanishing amid the storm Subject(s): Life Change Events BY ALLAN STREAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By allan stream I chanc'd to rove Last Line: Like meeting her, our bosom's treasure? CA' THE EWES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I gaed down the waterside CA' THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ca' the yowes to the knowes Last Line: My bonnie dearie. Variant Title(s): Hark, The Mavis' E'ebing Sang Subject(s): Love CALEDONIA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was once a day, but old time was then young Last Line: Then, ergo, she'll match them, and match them always. CANST THOU LEAVE ME THUS, MY KATIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography CAPTAIN GROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ken ye ought o' captain grose Last Line: The coins o' satan's coronation! -- iram coram dago. Subject(s): Grose, Francis (1731-1791) CARES O' LOVE ARE SWEETER FAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That for nae man is caring CARLE, AN' THE KING COME, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658 CASTLE GORDON (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Loud blaw the frosty breezes Last Line: And bonnie castle gordon. Variant Title(s): Young Highland Rover Subject(s): Castles CASTLE GORDON (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Streams that glide in orient plains Last Line: By bonnie castle gordon. Subject(s): Castles CHARLIE HE'S MY DARLING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a monday morning Last Line: The young chevalier! CHLOE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the charming month of may Last Line: Lovely was she, &c. Subject(s): May (month) CLARINDA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clarinda, mistress of my soul Last Line: My worship to its ray? COCK UP YOUR BEAVER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first my brave johnnie lad came to this town Last Line: Hey, brave johnnie lad, cock up your beaver! Subject(s): Hats COME BOAT ME O'ER TO CHARLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come boat me o'er, come row me o'er Last Line: I'd die as aft for charlie %we'll o'er etc Variant Title(s): O'er He Water To Charli COME, LET ME TAKE THEE TO MY BREAST, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love COMIN' THRO' THE RYE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gin a body meet a body Last Line: I dinna care to tell. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings COMING THROUGH THE RYE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming through the rye, poor body Last Line: Coming through the rye. CONTENTED WI' LITTLE, AND CANTIE WI' MAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography COULD AULT OF SONG DECLARE MY PAINS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography COUNT THE LAWIN', by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gane is the day, and mirk's the night Last Line: Then gudewife, &c. COUNTRY LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In simmer when the hay was mawn Last Line: "what mair hae queens upon a throne?" Subject(s): Country Life CRAIGIEBURN WOOD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet closes the ev'ning on craigieburn wood Last Line: Beyond thee, &c. Subject(s): Forests; Woods CURLER'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When winter muffles up his cloak Subject(s): Sports; Winter CUT THE CABLES'; AN INCIDENT OF CIENFUEGOS (1898), by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poet's Biography First Line: Cut the cables!' the order read DAINTY DAVIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now rosy may comes in wi' flowers Last Line: Meet me on, &c. DAMON AND SYLVIA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon wand'ring rill, that marks the hill Last Line: While damon's heart beat time, sir. Subject(s): Love DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In her the whole world's womanhood DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK; A TRUE STORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some books are lies frae end to end Last Line: And sae did death. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors DELUDED SWAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deluded swain, the pleasure Last Line: And then to bed in glory! Subject(s): Courtship DESPONDENCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care Last Line: Of dim declining age! Subject(s): Despair DOES HAUGHTY GAUL INVASION THREAT?, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography DUNCAN GRAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duncan gray cam here to woo Last Line: Ha, ha! The wooing o't! Subject(s): Courtship EDIBURGH SONNET: 14. AT ROBERT FERGUSSON'S GRAVE, OCT. 1962, by ROBERT GARIOCH Poem Source First Line: Canogait kirkyaird in the failing year Last Line: Here robert burns knelt and kissed the mool ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strait is the spot and green the sod Last Line: To his belov'd repose? ELEGY ON CAPTAIN MATTHEW HENDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death! Thou tyrant fell and bloody! Last Line: E'er lay in earth. Subject(s): Friendship ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF PEG NICHOLSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peg nicholson was a gude bay mare Last Line: As priest-rid cattle are, - &c. &c. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Horses ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT RUISSEAUX, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now robin lies in his last lair Last Line: Ye roos'd him then! Subject(s): Self ELEGY ON THE LATE MISS BURNET, OF MONBODDO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize Last Line: So, from it ravish'd, leaves it bleak and bare. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY ON THE YEAR 1788, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For lords or kings I dinna mourn Last Line: As muckle better as you can. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year EPIGRAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One queen artemisia, as old stories tell Last Line: Not to show her respect, but to save the expense! Subject(s): Funerals; Marriage EPIGRAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When -, deceased, to the devil went down EPIGRAM ON A CAPTAIN GROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The devil got notice that grose was a-dying Last Line: "I'll want him, ere I take such a damnable load!" Subject(s): Antiques; Grose, Francis (1731-1791) EPIGRAM ON BAD ROADS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm now arrived, thanks to the gods Last Line: Unless they mend their ways. Subject(s): Roads; Paths; Trails EPIGRAM ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL'S EPIGRAMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whom poetry abhors Last Line: Twas laurel'd martial calling murther. Subject(s): Elphinstone, William (1431-1514); Hate; Translating & Interpreting EPIGRAM ON MISS DAVIES; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT MOFFAT INN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask why god made the gem so small Last Line: That higher value on it. Subject(s): Size & Shape; Height EPIGRAM ON SAID OCCASION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, hadst thou but spar'd his life Last Line: Thou'se get the saul o'boot. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPIGRAM TO MISS AINSLIE IN CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair maid, you need not take the hint Last Line: Not angels such as you. Variant Title(s): To A Lady Who Was Looking Up The Text EPIGRAM WRITTEN AT INVERARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er he be that sojourns here Last Line: Twas surely in his anger. Subject(s): Inveraray, Scotland EPISTLE FROM ESOPUS TO MARIA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From those drear solitudes and frowsy cells Last Line: And thy still matchless tongue that conquers all reply! EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lang hae thought, my youthfu' friend Last Line: Then ever did th' adviser! Subject(s): Advice EPISTLE TO COLONEL DE PEYSTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My honour'd colonel, deep I feel Last Line: Amen! Amen! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While winds frae aff ben-lomond blaw Last Line: His sweaty, wizen'd hide. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO DR. BLACKLOCK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wow, but your letter made me vauntie! Last Line: I'm yours for aye. Variant Title(s): To Dr. Blacklock Subject(s): Letters EPISTLE TO HUGH PARKER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this strange land, this uncouth clime Last Line: Tak this excuse for nae epistle. EPISTLE TO JAMES SMITH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear smith, the slee'st, pawkie thief Last Line: Whare'er I gang. Variant Title(s): Epitaph To James Smith;to James Smith Subject(s): Friendship EPISTLE TO JOHN LAPRAIK, AN OLD SCOTTISH BARD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While briers an' woodbines budding green Last Line: Your friend and servant. Subject(s): Lapraik, John (1727-1807); Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO JOHN RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rough, rude, ready-witted rankine Last Line: Your most obedient. EPISTLE TO MAJOR LOGAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, thairm-inspirin,' rattlin' willie Last Line: To call at park. EPISTLE TO MR. M'ADAM; IN ANSWER TO AN OBLIGING LETTER ..., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, o'er a gill I gat your card Last Line: A credit to his country. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fintry, my stay in wordy strife Last Line: To grind them in the mire! Subject(s): Elections; Scotland - Relations With England; Voting; Voters; Suffrage EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg Last Line: With many a filial tear circling the bed of death! Variant Title(s): To Robert Graham Of Fintry, Esq. EPISTLE TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY, REQUESTING A FAVOR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When nature her great master-piece design'd Last Line: My muse may imp her wing for some sublimer flight. Subject(s): Friendship EPISTLE TO THE REV. JOHN M'MATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While at the stook the shearers cow'r Last Line: Ought that belang'd ye. EPISTLE TO WILLIAM SIMPSON OF OCHILTREE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gat your letter, winsome willie Last Line: In robert burns. Variant Title(s): To William Simson, Ochiltree Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPISTLE TO WILLIAM STEWART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In honest bacon's ingle-neuk Last Line: Sweet as a dry man's drink EPITAPH FOR GAVIN HAMILTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poor man weeps - here gavin sleeps Last Line: May I be sav'd or damn'd! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH FOR ROBERT AIKEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know thou, o stranger to the fame Last Line: A warmer heart death ne'er made cold. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A CLEISH SCHOOLMASTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie willie michie's banes Last Line: For clever deils he'll mak them! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON A FRIEND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An honest man here lies at rest Last Line: If there is none, he made the best of this. Variant Title(s): On A Friend;epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, William M. Subject(s): Religion; Theology EPITAPH ON A HENPECKED SQUIRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As father adam first was fooled Last Line: The devil ruled the woman. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A MOCK MARQUIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a mock marquis whose titles were shamm'd Last Line: If ever he rise, it will be to be damn'd. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON A SUICIDE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earthed up, here lies an imp of hell Last Line: To save the lord the trouble. Subject(s): Suicide EPITAPH ON BREWER GABRIAL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here brewer gabriel's fire's extinct Last Line: In upright, honest morals. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Epitaphs; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine EPITAPH ON HOLY WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here holy willie's sair worn clay Last Line: If it were kent ye did it. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON JAMES GRIEVE, THE LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies boghead amang the dead / in hopes to get salvation Last Line: Then welcome -- hail! Damnation. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON JOHN BUSHBY, A WRITER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies johnny bushby, honest man Last Line: Cheat him, devil -- if you can! EPITAPH ON MY FATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ye, whose cheek the tear of pity stains Last Line: For ev'n his failings lean'd to virtue's side. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fathers; Life Change Events; Religion; Theology EPITAPH ON NICOL OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye maggots, feed on nichol's brain Last Line: For deil a bit o't's rotten. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Nicol, William (1744-1797); Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors EPITAPH ON NOISY POLEMIC (BURNS'S 'BLETH'RIN BITCH'), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below thir stanes lie jamie's banes Last Line: Into thy dark dominion! Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON THE POET'S DAUGHTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a rose, a budding rose EPITAPH ON W -, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, thief! Dame nature cried to death EPITAPH ON WAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sic a reptile was wat Last Line: "and his heart is rank poison!"" another replies." Subject(s): Hate EPITAPH ON WEE JOHNNY (HIS PUBLISHER), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art, o reader know Last Line: For saul he ne'er had ony. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPOGRAM; LINES WRITTEN ON A WINDOW AT THE KING'S ARMS, DUMFRIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye men of wit and wealth, why all this sneering Last Line: What are they, pray, but spiritual excisemen! Subject(s): Taxes EPPIE MACNAB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye my dearie, my eppie macnab Last Line: Thou's broken the heart o' thy ain jock rab. Subject(s): Love - Complaints EVAN BANKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow spreads the gloom my soul desires EXTEMPORANEOUS EFFUSION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Searching auld wives' barrels Last Line: Wad muve the very hearts o' stanes! EXTEMPORE IN THE COURT OF SESSION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He clenched his pamphlet in his fist Last Line: Half-wauken'd wi' the din, man. Subject(s): Trials EXTEMPORE LINES IN ANSWER TO A CARD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's most humble servant, I Last Line: Or else the deil's be in it. Subject(s): Time EXTEMPORE TO MR. SYME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more of your guests, be they titled or not Last Line: Is proof to all other temptation. EXTEMPORE, ON MR. WILLIAM SMELLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Crochallan came Last Line: By turns in soaring heaven, or vaulted hell! EXTEMPORE, ON PASSING A LADY'S CARRIAGE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you rattle along like your mistress's tongue Last Line: If your stuff be as rotten's her heart. Subject(s): Hate FAIR ELIZA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn again, thou fair eliza Last Line: That thy presence gies to me. FAIR JENNY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the joys I have met in the morning Last Line: Enjoyment I'll seek in my woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FAIREST MAID ON DEVON BANKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Songs FAREWELL SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gloomy night is gath'ring fast Last Line: Farewell, the bonnie banks of ayr! Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Farewell; Parting FAREWELL TO ELIZA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thee, eliza, I must go Last Line: And thine that latest sigh! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting FAREWELL TO NANCY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae fond kiss, and then we sever Last Line: Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee! Variant Title(s): Song;a Fond Kiss Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Parting FAREWELL, SELS., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He turn'd him right and round about Subject(s): Death FAREWELL, THOU STREAM THAT WINDING FLOWS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT; SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there, for honest poverty Last Line: Shall brothers be for a' that! Variant Title(s): A Man's A Man For A' That;honest Poverty Subject(s): Brotherhood; Class Struggle; Equality; Freedom; Mankind; Poverty; Liberty; Human Race FORLORN, MY LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forlorn, my love, no comfort near Last Line: O wert thou, &c. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation FORNICATOR. A NEW SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye jovial boys who love the joys Last Line: And still they grac'd our noble list %and ranked fornicator! FRAE THE FRIENDS AND LAND I LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Friendship FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her flowing locks, the raven's wing Last Line: A crimson still diviner! Subject(s): Beauty FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now health forsakes that angel face FRAGMENT OF AN ODE TO PRINCE CHARLES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False flatterer, hope, away Last Line: Or rebels to their king. FROM HIS FIRST SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She dresses aye so clean and neat GIFT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Owad some pow'r the giftie gie us Last Line: And ev'n devotion! GLENRIDDEL HERMITAGE (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whom chance may hither lead Last Line: Quod the beadsman of nidside. GLOOMY DECEMBER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy december Last Line: Parting wi' nancy, oh, ne'er to meet mair. Subject(s): December; Farewell; Parting GOOD HEART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's no in titles or in rank GRACE AFTER MEAT (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, in whom we live and move Last Line: And we desire no more. Amen! Subject(s): Grace GRACE AFTER MEAT (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, we thank and thee adore Last Line: Let william hislop give the spirit. Subject(s): Grace GRACE AFTER MEAT (3), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, since we have feasted thus Last Line: And jock bring in the spirit! Amen. Subject(s): Grace GRACE BEFORE MEAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lord, when hunger pinches sore Last Line: A tup or wether head! Amen. Subject(s): Grace GREEN GROW THE RASHES, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography GREEN GROW THE RASHES, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography GREETINGS, by SUSAN LASHER Poem Source First Line: As if one of the humbler statues %in the park - robert burns, schubert Last Line: Order, and the million forms of farewell Subject(s): Farewell; Greetings; Language; Parks; Statues GUDE E'EN TO YOU, KIMMER, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HAD I A CAVE ON SOME WILD, DISTANT SHORE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HAD I THE WYTE, HAD I THE WYTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters HALLOWEEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon that night, when fairies light Last Line: Fu' blythe that night. Subject(s): Halloween HANDSOME NELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, once I lov'd a bonnie lass Last Line: She reigns without controul HAPPINESS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think ye, that sic as you and I Subject(s): Courage HEAD PURE, SINLESS QUITE, OF BRAIN OR SOUL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HER DADDIE FORBAD, HER MINNIE FORBAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HERE'S A HEALTH TO THEM THAT'S AWA', by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HERE'S HIS HEALTH IN WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altho' my back be at the wa' Last Line: Yet here's his health in water! HERE'S TO THY HEALTH, MY BONNIE LASS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Courtship HEY FOR A LASS WI' A TOCHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awa' wi' your witchcraft o' beauty's alarms Last Line: Then hey, for a lass, &c. Subject(s): Beauty; Love HEY, CA' THRO', by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We hae tales to tell Last Line: For we hae mickle ado. HEY, THE DUSTY MILLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HIGHLAND HARRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My harry was a gallant gay Last Line: O for him, &c. HIGHLAND LADDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bonniest lad that e'er I saw HIGHLAND MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks, and braes, and streams around Last Line: Shall live my highland mary. Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The HIS FACE WITH SMILE ETERNAL DREST, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, that [or, wha] in the heavens does dwell! Last Line: Amen, amen! Variant Title(s): Prayer Of Holy Willie, A Canting, Hypocritical Kirk Elder Subject(s): Calvinists; Hate; Hypocrisy; Prayer; Self-righteousness HOW CRUEL ARE THE PARENTS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HOW LANG AND DREARY IS THE NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography HUSBAND, HUSBAND, CEASE YOUR STRIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marriage; Women's Rights I AM A BARD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They're welcome till't for a' that! I DO CONFESS THOU ART SAE FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Love I DREAMED I LAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream's I lay where flowers were springing I HAE A WIFE OF MY AIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I MET A LASS, A BONNIE LASS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I ONCE WAS A MAID, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once was a maid, tho'; I cannot tell when I ONCE WAS A MAID ..., FR. THE JOLLY BEGGARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I SEE A FORM, I SEE A FACE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O this is no my ain lassie Last Line: This is no my ain, &c. I'LL AYE CA' IN BY YON TOWN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I'LL KISS THEE YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I'M O'ER YOUNG TO MARRY YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography I'M OWRE YOUNG TO MARRY YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am my mammie's ae bairn Last Line: To tak me frae my mammie yet Subject(s): Innocence; Love IF HAPPINESS HAS NOT HER SEAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography IMAGINARY ILLS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But human bodies are sick fools Last Line: In like proportion less will hurt them Variant Title(s): Borrowing Troubl Subject(s): Courage IMPROMPTU, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How daur ye ca' me howlet-face Last Line: An' there ye saw your picture. Subject(s): Mirrors IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At brownhill we always get dainty good cheer Last Line: But why always bacon-come, tell me a reason? Subject(s): Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses IMPROMPTU ON MRS. RIDDEL'S BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old winter, with his frosty beard Last Line: And winter once rejoiced in glory. Subject(s): Birthdays; Winter IN VAIN WOULD PRUDENCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography INSCRIPTION ON A GOBLET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's death in the cup - sae beware Last Line: The man and his wine's so bewitching! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Glasses (tumblers); Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse INSCRIPTION ON FERGUSSON'S TOMBSTONE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay Last Line: A nobler monument than art can shew. Subject(s): Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774) INSPIRATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse, nae poet ever fand her IT IS NA, JEAN, THY BONNIE FACE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ITS LENGTH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen, a sonneteer thy praises sings Last Line: Fourteen good measur'd verses make a sonnet Variant Title(s): A Sonnet Upon Sonnet Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form) JAMIE, COME TRY ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a' the airts the wind can blaw Last Line: But minds me of my jean. Variant Title(s): I Love My Jean Subject(s): Absence; Armour, Jean (1764-1834); Love - Marital; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Burns, Jean Armour (1764-1834); Wedded Love; Marriage - Love JENNY M'CRAW, SHE HAS TA'EN TO THE HEATHER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography JESSY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear Last Line: Here's a health, &c. JOCKEY'S TA'EN THE PARTING KISS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography JOHN ANDERSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John anderson, my jo, john, / when we were first acquent Last Line: John anderson, my jo. Subject(s): Aging; Home; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sex; Togetherness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JOHN BARLEYCORN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three kings into the east Last Line: Ne'er fail in old scotland! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse JOYFUL WIDOWER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I married with a scolding wife KATHARINE JAFFRAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd a lass in yonder dale KENMURE'S ON AND AWA', by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O kenmure's on and awa, willie! Last Line: The rose that's like the snaw. KING COAL TO UNCLE SAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the king of strife and calm Subject(s): Patriotism LADY MARY ANN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady mary ann looks o'er the castle wa' Last Line: For my bonnie laddie's young, but he's growin' yet. LADY ONLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A' the lads o' thornie-bank Last Line: Lady onlie, &c. LAMENT FOR CULLODEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely lass o' inverness Last Line: That ne'er did wrang to thine or thee.' Subject(s): Culloden, Battle Of (1746) LAMENT FOR GLENCAIRN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye scattered birds that faintly sing LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLENCAIRN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew hollow frae the hills Last Line: "and a' that thou hast done for me!" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LAMENT OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now nature hangs her mantle green Last Line: Bloom on my peaceful grave! Subject(s): Courage; Lament; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Valor; Bravery; Mary Stuart LANDLADY, COUNT THE LAWIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LASS, WHEN YOUR MITHER IS FRAE HAME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LASSIE LIE NEAR ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lang hae we parted been Last Line: Lassie lie near me %near me, etc LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LAST BRAW BRIDAL THAT I WA AT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LAST MAY, A BRAW WOOER CAM DOUN THE LANG GLEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LEEZIE LINDSAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will ye go to the hielands, leezie lindsay Last Line: My pride and my darling to be. LET NOT WOMAN E'ER COMPLAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LET NOT WOMAN E'ER COMPLAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LETTER TO JAMES TENNANT OF GLENCONNER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld comrade dear and brither sinner Last Line: Rob the ranter. LETTER TO JOHN GOUDIE, KILMARNOCK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O goudie! Terror of the whigs Last Line: As gleg's a whittle. Subject(s): Writing & Writers LETTER TO ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: King robert, on your anvil stone Last Line: And watch a dead man's ember glow Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. LIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life, sae far's I understand LIFE AND LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in the long ago, when life and love LILAC: FIRST EMOTIONS OF LOVE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O were my love yon lilac fair Last Line: Till fley'd awa' by phoebus' light. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs LINES HE INSCRIBED ON A WINDOW AT QUEENSBURY ARMS, SCOTLAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye gods! Ye gave me a wife Last Line: To obey your will at any time, %I'm ready to resign her Subject(s): Marriage LINES INSCRIBED ON A PLATTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My blessings on ye, honest wife Last Line: I'll ne'er gae by your door! Subject(s): Guests LINES ON AN INTERVIEW WITH LORD DAER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wot ye all whom it concerns Last Line: For he but meets a brother. LINES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY BURNS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who of rankine sang, lies stiff and dead Last Line: Alas! Alas! A devilish change indeed. Subject(s): Epitaphs LINES TO A LOUSE, SELS., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now haud ye there, ye're our o' sight LINES TO MRS. KEMBLE, IN THE CHARACTER OF YARICO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kemble, thou cur'st my unbelief Last Line: The rock with tears had flow'd. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Kemble, Elizabeth (1761-1836); Actresses LINES TO SIR JOHN WHITEFORD, ON DEATH OF EARL OF GLENCAIRN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, who thy honour as thy god reverest Last Line: And tread the shadowy path to that dark world unknown. LINES UNDER THE PICTURE OF MISS BURNS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cease, ye prudes, your envious railing Last Line: Had a woman ever less? LINES WRITTEN AT LOUDON MANSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night was still, and o'er the hill Last Line: "was ""irvine's bairns are bonnie a'." LINES WRITTEN IN A LADY'S POCKET-BOOK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grant me, indulgent heaven, that I may live Last Line: Till slave and despot be but things that were. Subject(s): Justice LINES WRITTEN ON A BANK NOTE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wae worth thy pow'r, thou cursed leaf Last Line: Never, perhaps, to greet old scotland more. Subject(s): Money; Scotland LINES WRITTEN ON A TUMBLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're welcome, willie stewart Last Line: You're welcome, willie stewart, &c. LINES WRITTEN ON WINDOWS OF THE GLOBE INN, DUMFRIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou greybeard, old wisdom, may boast of thy treasures Last Line: But folly has raptures to give. Subject(s): Religion; Wit & Humor LINNET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within the bush, her covert nest Subject(s): Birds LOGAN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O logan, sweetly didst thou glide Last Line: And willie hame to logan braes! Variant Title(s): Logan Water Subject(s): Logan (river), Scotland; Mothers LORD GREGORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mirk, mirk is this midnight hour Last Line: His wrangs to heaven and me. Subject(s): Despair; Love LOUIS, WHAT RECK I BY THEE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography LOVE IN THE GUISE OF FRIENDSHIP, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your friendship much can make me blest Last Line: The very friend I sought. Subject(s): Friendship; Love LOVELY DAVIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how shall I, unskilfu,' try Last Line: The charms o' lovely davies. Subject(s): Beauty; Women LOYAL NATIVE'S VERSES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of sedition, give ear to my song LYING AT A REVEREND FRIEND'S HOUSE, THE AUTHOR LEFT .. VERSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou dread power, who reign'st above Last Line: A family in heaven! MACPHERSON'S [OR M'PHERSON'S] FAREWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, ye dungeons dark and strong Last Line: Sae rantingly, &c. Variant Title(s): Defiance MALLY'S MEEK, MALLY'S SWEET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking up the street Last Line: Mally's meek, &c. Variant Title(s): O Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet Subject(s): Beauty; Women MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chill november's surly blast Last Line: "that weary-laden mourn!" Subject(s): Mankind; Mourning; Religion; Human Race; Bereavement; Theology MARK YONDER POMP OF COSTLY FASHION, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MARY MORISON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mary, at thy window be Last Line: The thought o' mary morison. Variant Title(s): Devotion Subject(s): Love; Regret MEG O' THE MILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O ken ye what meg o' the mill has gotten Last Line: But gie me my love, and a fig for the warl'! MELANCHOLY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See yonder poor, o'er-labored wight MONODY ON A LADY FAMED FOR HER CAPRICE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How cold is that bosom which folly once fired Last Line: Which spurning contempt shall redeem from his ire. Subject(s): Women MONTGOMERIE'S PEGGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Altho' my bed were in yon muir Last Line: The sharin't with montgomerie's peggy. Subject(s): Love MUSE OF BURNS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With future hope I oft would gaze MUSING ON THE ROARING OCEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MY BOTTLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My bottle is my holy pool MY CHLORIS, MARK HOW GREEN THE GROVES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MY FATHER WAS A FARMER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a farmer upon the carrick border, o Last Line: A cheerful honest-hearted clown I will prefer before you, o. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY HEART WAS ANCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart was ance as blythe and free Last Line: To the weaver's, &c. Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers; Seduction MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's in the highlands, my heart is not here Last Line: My heart's in the highlands wherever I go. Variant Title(s): Farewell To The Highlands Subject(s): Highlands Of Scotland; Patriotism MY HOGGIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will I do gin my hoggie die Last Line: And maist has kill'd my hoggie! Subject(s): Lambs MY JEAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though cruel fate should bid us part Last Line: I still would love my jean. Subject(s): Absence; Love; Separation; Isolation MY LADY SLEEPS, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, happy-hearted bird MY LADY'S GOWN, THERE'S GAIRS UPON 'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MY NANIE, O, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind yon hills where lugar flows Last Line: But live, an' love my nanie, o. Subject(s): Love MY NANNIE'S AWA (1), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now in her green mantle blythe nature arrays Last Line: Alane can delight me -- now nanie's awa. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation MY NANNIE'S AWA (2), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou laverock that springs frae the dews o' the lawn MY PEGGY'S FACE, MY PEGGY'S FORM, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography MY TOCHER'S THE JEWEL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O meikle thinks my luve o' my beauty Last Line: And ye'll crack your credit wi' mae nor me. NAETHING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To you, sir, this summons I've sent Last Line: And my friendship, by god, when ye've naething. Variant Title(s): Extempore To Gavin Hamilton. Stanzas On Naething Subject(s): Friendship; Nothingness; Nihilism; Voids NATURE'S LAW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other heroes boast their scars Last Line: To endless generations! Subject(s): Nature; Future; Fathers NEW YEAR DAY - TO MRS. DUNLOP, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This day time winds th' exhausted chain Last Line: Yourself, you wait your bright reward. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year NITHSDALE'S WELCOME HAME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The noble maxwells and their powers Last Line: Farewell our night o' sorrow. Subject(s): Homecoming; Maxwell, William. 5th Earl Of Nithsdale NO CHURCHMAN AM I FOR TO RAIL AND TO WRITE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking NOW SPRING HAS CLAD THE GROVE IN GREEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O AYE MY WIFE SHE DANG ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O BONNIE WAS YON ROSY BRIER, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O CAN YE LABOUR LEA, YOUNG MAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O FOR ANE AND TWENTY TAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An o, for ane and twenty tam Last Line: I'm thine at ane and twenty, tam %an o, for etc O GIE MY LOVE BROSE, BROSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O GUID ALE COMES, AND GUID ALE GOES, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O LASSIE, ART THOU SLEEPING YET, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O LAY THY LOOF IN MINE, LASS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O LEAVE NOVELS, YE MAUCHLINE BELLES, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O MAY, THY MORN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O may, thy morn was ne'er so sweet Last Line: The dearest o' the quorum. O MERRY HAE I BEEN TEETHIN' A HECKLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O RAGING FORTUNE'S WITHERING BLAST, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O SAW YE MY DEAR, MY PHILLY, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O STEER HER UP, AND HAUD HER GAUN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O THAT I HAD NE'ER BEEN MARRIED, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O WAT YE WHAT MY MINNIE DID, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O WHA' IS SHE THAT LO'ES ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O WHARE DID YE GET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whare did ye get that hauver-meal bannock O WHY THE DEUCE SHOULD I REPINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O'ER THE WATER TO CHARLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll o'er the water, we'll o'er the sea O, FOR ANE-AND-TWENTY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' o, for ane-and-twenty, tam! Last Line: An' o for, &c. O, WAT YE WHA'S IN YON TOWN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography O, WERE I ON PARNASSUS HILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ODE ON THE DEPARTED REGENCY BILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of chaos' doting years Last Line: Your brightest hopes may fail. Subject(s): Government; Politics & Government; Scotland ODE TO SPRING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When maukin bucks, at early f--s Last Line: And f--'d quite out o' tune, sir ODE, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. OSWALD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dweller in yon dungeon dark Last Line: Expires in rags, unknown, and goes to heaven. Subject(s): War; Death; Religion ON A BANK OF FLOWERS, IN A SUMMER DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ON A CELEBRATED RULING ELDER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here souter hood in death does sleep Last Line: He'll haud it weel thegither. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Souter Hood Subject(s): Epitaphs ON A CERTAIN COMMEMORATION OF THOMSON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou not rise, indignant shade Last Line: Shall lose the mite he hath. Subject(s): Thomson, James (1700-1748) ON A DOG OF LORD EGLINTON'S, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never barked when out of season Last Line: Happy for man could he say so ON A REQUEST OF CHLORIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a white-blossom'd sloe my dear chloris requested Last Line: I plant in that bosom a thorn! ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A'ye wha live by sowps o' drink Last Line: Tho' owre the sea! Subject(s): Jamaica, West Indies; Poetry & Poets ON A SCOTCH COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light lay the earth on billy's breast Last Line: His scull will prop it under. Variant Title(s): Epigram On A Noted Coxcomb Subject(s): Epitaphs; Fools; Vanity; Idiots ON A SWEARING COXCOMB, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here cursing, swearing burton lies Last Line: "and his last words were ""dem my blood!" Subject(s): Fools; Idiots ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament him, mauchline husbands a' Last Line: Perhaps he was your father! Variant Title(s): Epitaph For James Smith;epitaph On A Wag In Mauchline Subject(s): Epitaphs; Scotland ON ANDREW TURNER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In seventeen hundred and forty-nine Last Line: An' ca'd it andrew turner. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON BEING SHEWN A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SEAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We grant they're thine, those beauties all Last Line: For others to enjoy! Subject(s): Beauty; Property ON CESSNOCK BANKS A LASSIE DWELLS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ON CHLORIS BEING ILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long the night Last Line: Long, long, &c. Variant Title(s): On Chloris Being Ill Subject(s): Sickness; Illness ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE'S BRAINS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, to account who dares thee call Last Line: Enclose so poor a treasure? Subject(s): Politics & Government; Wit & Humor ON CREECH THE BOOKSELLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld chuckie reekie's sair distrest Last Line: Fleet wing awa! Subject(s): Creech, William (1745-1815); Publishing; Publishers ON GLENRIDDEL'S FOX BREAKING HIS CHAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, liberty, thou art my theme Last Line: Since we to scoundrels owe our freedom. Subject(s): Foxes; Freedom; Liberty ON GRIZZEL GRIM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies with death auld grizzel grim Last Line: To lie with such a bitch! ON HIMSELF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes burns ON JAMES GRACIE, DEAN OF GUILD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gracie, thou art a man of worth Last Line: Who fauts thy weight or measure! Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON JOHN DOVE [JOHNNY DOW], INNKEEPER OF MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies johnny pidgeon Last Line: And port was celestial glory. Subject(s): Epitaphs ON LORD GALLOWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No stewart art thou, galloway Last Line: Not one of them a knave. ON MARIA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise woman still,' his lordship roars Last Line: The more the truth I tell. Subject(s): Flattery ON MARIA DANCING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How graceful maria leads the dance! Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers ON MAXWELL OF CARDONESS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless jesus christ, o cardoness Last Line: Then hadst thou lain for ever. Subject(s): Death; Wit & Humor ON MISS J. SCOTT OF AYR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Had each scot of ancient times Last Line: Had yielded like a coward. Subject(s): Courage ON MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of savages Last Line: Would be so blest a sight. Subject(s): Love; Fiendship; Death; Dead, The ON MR. CRUIKSHANK OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, EDINBURGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honest will to heaven's away Last Line: In english nane e'er kent them. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors ON MR. M'MURDO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest be m'murdo to his latest day Last Line: Nor ever daughter give the mother pain! Subject(s): Friendship ON PASTORAL POETRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, poesie! Thou nymph reserv'd Last Line: The sternest move. Subject(s): Nature; Beauty; Poetry & Poets ON ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He pass'd thro' life's tempestuous night Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ON ROBERT RIDDELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To riddell, much-lamented man Last Line: This ivied cot revere. Subject(s): Death; Life; Money ON SCARING SOME WATERFOWL IN LOCH-TURIT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, ye tenants of the lake Last Line: Scorn at least to be his slave. Subject(s): Waterfowl ON SEEING MISS FONTENELLE IN A FAVOURITE CHARACTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet naivete of feature Last Line: Then indeed thou'd'st act a part. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Actresses ON SEEING THE BEAUTIFUL SEAT OF LORD GALLOWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dost thou in that mansion fair Last Line: The picture of thy mind. Subject(s): Social Classes; Wit & Humor ON SENSIBILITY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sensibility, how charming Last Line: Thrill the deepest notes of woe. Subject(s): Sensibility ON STIRLING; SEEING THE ROYAL PALACE IN RUIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stuarts [or, stewarts] once in glory reigned Last Line: Who know them best despise them most. Subject(s): Scotland ON THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O cam ye here the fight to shun Last Line: La, la, la, la, &c. Subject(s): War ON THE BIRTH OF A POSTHUMOUS CHILD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flow'ret, pledge o' meikle love Last Line: Arise to deck our land! Subject(s): Birth; Child Birth; Midwifery ON THE DEATH OF A LAP-DOG, ECHO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In wood and wild, ye warbling throng Last Line: With echo silent lies. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT DUNDAS, ESQ., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lone on the bleaky hills the straying flocks Last Line: That would degenerate ages cannot cure. Subject(s): Dundas, Robert (1713-1787) ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare Last Line: She said, and vanish'd with the sweeping blast. Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Graves; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE LATE CAPT. GROSE'S PEREGRINATIONS THRO' SCOTLAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear, land o' cakes, and brither scots Last Line: "wad say, ""shame fa' thee!" Subject(s): Antiques; Grose, Francis (1731-1791); Scotland ON THE SEAS AND FAR AWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How can my poor heart be glad Last Line: My dear lad that's far away. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation ONE NIGHT AS I DID WANDER, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography OPEN THE DOOR TO ME, OH!, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, open the door, some pity to shew Last Line: Never to rise again, oh. Subject(s): Love OUT OVER THE FORTH I LOOK TO THE NORTH, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography PARTIALLY SUCCESSFUL GENETIC RECREATION OF ROBERT BURNS, by P. ANDREW MILLER Poem Source First Line: O, my love is like a red, red rose Last Line: Let's say, 10:00 tuesday PASSING OF MARCH, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The braggart march stood in the season's Subject(s): March (month); Nature PASSING THROUGH THE CARRON IRON WORKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cam na here to view your warks Last Line: Your billy satan sair us! Variant Title(s): Verses Written On A Window In Carron Subject(s): Iron & Steel Industry PATRIARCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As honest jacob on a night Last Line: And up and till 't like fire!!! Subject(s): Bible; Religion PEG-A-RAMSEY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cauld is the e'enin' blast Last Line: Gat grist to her mill. Subject(s): Love PEGGIE'S CHARMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where, braving angry winter's storms Last Line: Must be a stronger death. Subject(s): Winter PHILLY AND WILLY - A DUET, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O philly, happy be that day Last Line: Both. For a' the joys, &c. Subject(s): Love; Nature PHYLLIS THE FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While larks with little wing Last Line: Phillis the fair. Subject(s): Grief PLOUGHMAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ploughman he's a bonnie lad POEM, ADDRESSED TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the poet, tried and leal Last Line: For ance and aye! Subject(s): Friendship; Future; Poetry & Poets POETICAL ADDRESS TO MR. WILLIAM TYTLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revered defender of beauteous stuart Last Line: Your course to the latest is bright. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Scotland - Relations With England POETICAL INSCRIPTION FOR AN ALTAR OF INDEPENDENCE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of an independent mind Last Line: Approach this shrine, and worship here. Variant Title(s): For An Altar To Independence;inscription For An Altar To Independence Subject(s): Freedom; Independence; Politics & Government; Liberty POLLY STEWART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lovely polly stewart Last Line: O lovely polly stewart, &c. Subject(s): Love; Nature POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lament in rhyme, lament in prose Last Line: His mailie's dead! Subject(s): Lambs POORTITH CAULD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poortith cauld, and restless love Last Line: O why, &c. Subject(s): Lovw; Life; Future POSTSCRIPT TO A LETTER ON THE EXCISE LAW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let half-starv'd slaves in warmer skies POVERTY AND POLITICS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In politics if thou would'st mix Last Line: Let great folk hear and see. Subject(s): Politics & Government PRAYER FOR MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Powers celestial, whose protection PROLOGUE FOR MR. WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When by a generous public's kind acclaim Last Line: Till fate the curtain drop on worlds to be no more. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Equality; Patriotism PROLOGUE FOR MRS. SUTHERLAND'S BENEFIT NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What needs this din about the town o' london Last Line: God help us! We're but poor -- ye'se get but thanks. Subject(s): Theater & Theaters; Stage Life PROLOGUE FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No song nor dance I bring from yon great city Last Line: Believe our glowing bosoms truly feel it. Subject(s): Holidays; New Year PROPOSAL TO ROBERT BURNS, by JOANNE SELTZER Poem Source First Line: Let's make a wedding time won't hook Last Line: You won't be asked to share your name Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights RATTLIN,' ROARIN' WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O rattlin,' roarin' willie Last Line: You're welcome hame to me! Subject(s): Seduction; Friendship; Drinks & Drinking RAVING WINDS AROUND HER BLOWING, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography REMEMBER THE MAINE', by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poet's Biography First Line: When the vengeance wakes, when the battle breaks REMORSE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the numerous ills that hurt our peace Last Line: O glorious magnanimity of soul! Subject(s): Remorse REPLY TO A NOTE FROM CAPTAIN RIDDEL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, at ony time or tide Last Line: The lord in heav'n reward ye! REPLY TO THE MINISTER OF GLADSMUIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like esop's lion, burns says, sore I feel RITUALS AT OUR PERIL, by SAMANTHA WYNNE RHYDDERCH Poem Source First Line: It's tuesday. He's robert burns again Last Line: We lose ourselves to rituals %at our peril RIVER'S SUPPLICATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now saucy phoebus' scorching beams Subject(s): Holidays; Trees ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scots wha hae wi' wallace bled Last Line: Let us do, or die! Variant Title(s): Bannockburn;the Battle Of Bannockburn;bruce To His Men At Bannockburn;bruce's Address To His Army At Bannockburn;national Air: Scotland;scots Wha Hae;robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn Subject(s): Bannockburn, Battle Of (1314); Freedom; National Song - Scotland; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Scotland; Wallace, Sir William (1270-1305); War; Liberty; Scottish National Anthem; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER (1567-1640) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All scottish legends did his fancy fashion Last Line: Driving his laurell'd plough! Alternate Author Name(s): Stirling, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by MILES MENANDER DAWSON Poem Source First Line: He was the people's poet, he was of them Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal robert burns of ayr Last Line: And also an honour to scotland, for your genius it is rare. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What bird in beauty, flight, or song Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Large hearted minstrel! From the sphere Last Line: That nestle warmly in each heart! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Honor; Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS, by WILSON STEWART ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail, o nithsdale's furrow'd field, a marathon art thou Last Line: O grandest city of the world, for you have burns's grave! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets ROBERT BURNS AND MISTER PIERPONT MORGAN, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, heard ye, brither scots, the 'clash' Last Line: Where his lone heart is sleeping! Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Manuscripts; Morgan, John Pierpont (1837-1913); Paper; Poetry & Poets; Printing And Printers ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What intuition named thee? Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight ROBERT BURNS; WRITTEN FOR THE BURNS CENTENNIAL, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the frost had killed the daisies Last Line: And the wide world's love has crowned him! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets; Praise; Scotland ROBIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a lad was born in kyle Last Line: Rantin', rovin', robin! Variant Title(s): Rantin, Rovin Robin;there Was A Lad Subject(s): Future ROBIN SHURE IN HAIRST, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SAE FAIR HER HAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Braw, braw lads of gala water SAE FAR AWA', by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sad and heavy should I part Last Line: Than her's, the fair, sae far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Parting SAE FLAXEN WERE HER RINGLETS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SCOTCH DRINK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other poets raise a fracas Last Line: Directs thee best. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bible; Religion; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Theology SCROGGAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a wife wonn'd in cockpen, scroggam Last Line: Scroggam, my dearie, ruffum. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking SECOND EPISTLE TO DAVIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auld neibour / I'm three times doubly o'er your debtor Last Line: Frae door tae door. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets SENT TO A GENTLEMAN WHO HE HAD OFFENDED, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friend whom wild from wisdom's way Last Line: Tis thine to pity and forgive. Subject(s): Regret SHE'S FAIR AND FAUSE THAT CAUSES MY SMART, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SIC A WIFE AS WILLIE HAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Willie wastle dwalt on tweed Last Line: I wadna gie a button for her! Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives SKETCH - PORTRAIT OF CREECH THE BOOKSELLER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little, upright, pert, tart, tripping wight Last Line: Still making work his selfish craft must mend. Subject(s): Booksellers; Bookstores SKETCH, INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HON. C.J. FOX, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How wisdom and folly meet, mix and unite Last Line: It is not, out-do him -- the task is, out-thieve him! Subject(s): Fox, Charles James (1749-1806) SLEEP'ST THOU, OR WAK'ST THOU, FAIREST CREATURE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SOMEBODY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is sair, I dare na tell Last Line: For the sake o' somebody. Subject(s): Love SONG, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I do not ask that god will keep all storms away SONG COMPOSED IN AUGUST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now westling winds and slaughtering guns Last Line: My fair, my lovely charmer! Subject(s): Nature; Love SONG OF THE OLD SOLDIER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a son of mars, who have been in many wars SONNET ON HEARING A THRUSH SING IN JANUARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sweet thrush, upon the leafless bough Last Line: The mite high heav'n bestow'd, that mite with thee I'll share. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes SONNET ON READING A POEM OF ROBERT BURNS, by B. H. WEST Poem Source First Line: Old classic books before open lie SONNET ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT RIDDELL, ESQ., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more ye warblers of the wood - no more Last Line: Me, memory of my loss will only meet. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPARK O' NATURE'S FIRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gie me ae spark o' nature's fire STANZAS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For thee is laughing nature gay Last Line: While joy's a stranger to my breast. Subject(s): Nature; Love STANZAS IN PROSPECT OF DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene Last Line: O, aid me with thy help, omnipotence divine! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STAY, MY CHARMER, CAN YOU LEAVE ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography STRATHALLAN'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thickest night, o'erhang my dwelling? Last Line: But a world without a friend. Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to a' our scottish fame Last Line: Such a parcel of rogues in a nation! Subject(s): Scotland - Relations With England; Treason & Traitors SUCH IS THE DEATH THE SOLDIER DIES, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poet's Biography SWEET FA'S THE EVE ON CRAIGIE-BURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography SWEETEST MAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest may, let love incline thee SYLVANDER TO CLARINDA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dear clarinda, matchless fair Last Line: I'll write whatever I've to do. Subject(s): Love; Grief; Friendship TAILOR FELL THRO' THE BED, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To see the bit taylor come skippin again TAM GLEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is a-breaking, dear tittie! Last Line: The lad I lo'e dearly, tam glen. Subject(s): Love TAM O' SHANTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chapman [or, chapmen] billies leave the street Last Line: Remember tan o'shanter's mare. Subject(s): Country Life; Fairies; Elves TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has auld kilmarnock seen the deil? Last Line: Tam samson's leevin'! Subject(s): Honesty TAM THE CHAPMAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tam the chapman on a day Last Line: Death taks him hame to gie him quarters. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THANKSGIVING FOR VICTORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye hypocrites! Are these your pranks Last Line: God won't accept your thanks for murther! Subject(s): Hypocrisy; Patriotism THE AULD FARMER'S NEW YEAR MORNING SALUTATION ... AULD MARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A guid new year I wish thee, maggie Last Line: Wi' sma' fatigue. Subject(s): Animals; Holidays; Horses; New Year; Nature; Friendship THE AUTHOR'S EARNEST CRY AND PRAYER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye irish lords, ye knights an' squires Last Line: Take aff your dram! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Scotland - Relations With England; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE BANKS OF NITH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thames flows proudly to the sea Last Line: Amang the friends of early days! Subject(s): Rivers THE BELLES OF MAUCHLINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mauchline there dwells six proper young belles Last Line: But armour's the jewel for me o' them a'. Subject(s): Girls THE BIRKS OF ABERFELDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie lassie, will ye go Last Line: In the birks of aberfeldy. Variant Title(s): The Birks Of Aberfeldy THE BLISSFUL DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day returns, my bosom burns Last Line: It breaks my bliss, -- it breaks my heart. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE BLUDE RED ROSE AT YULE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blude red rose at yule may blaw Last Line: To daunton me, &c. Variant Title(s): To Daunton Me Subject(s): Old Age THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen Last Line: To her twa een sae bonnie blue. Subject(s): Charm; Longing THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O how can I be blythe and glad Last Line: And he'll be hame that's far awa. Subject(s): Absence; Separation; Isolation THE BONNIE LASS OF ALBANY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is wae, and unco wae Last Line: We'll welcome hame fair albany. Subject(s): Frederick Augustus (1763-1827); Duke Of York And Albany THE BONNIE WEE THING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing Last Line: Bonnie wee thing, &c. THE BOOKWORMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through and through the inspired leaves Last Line: And spare his golden bindings. Subject(s): Books; Reading THE BRAES O' BALLOCHMYLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The catrine woods were yellow seen Last Line: Farewell, farewell! Sweet ballochmyle! Subject(s): Nature; Regret THE BRIGS OF AYR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The simple bard, rough at the rustic plough Last Line: At sight of whom our sprites forgat their kindling wrath. Subject(s): Ayr (river), Scotland; Bridges THE CALF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right, sir! Your text I'll prove it true Last Line: "here lies a famous bullock!" Subject(s): Religion; Theology THE CAPTAIN'S LADY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mount and go, mount and make you ready Last Line: O mount and go, &c. Subject(s): War; Love THE CARDIN' O'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O coft a stane o' haslock woo' Last Line: The cardin o't, &c. Subject(s): Love; Labor & Laborers THE CARLE OF KELLYBURN BRAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a carle in kellyburn braes Last Line: And the thyme it is wither'd, and rue is in prime. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE CARLES OF DYSART, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up wi' the carles of dysart Last Line: Hey, ca' thro', &c. Variant Title(s): Hey Ca' Thro' Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Drinks & Drinking THE CHEVALIER'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning Last Line: Alas! I can make it no better return! Subject(s): Birds; Grief THE COLLIER LADDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whare live ye my bonnie lass Last Line: "and the warld before me, &c." THE COOPER O' CUDDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We'll hide the cooper behint the door Last Line: We'll hide the cooper, &c. THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lov'd, my honour'd, much respected friend! Last Line: In bright succession raise, her ornament and guard! Subject(s): Home; Love; Religion; Theology THE DEAD PLAYER, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure and exact - the master's quiet touch Last Line: The memory of him. THE DEAN OF FACULTY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dire was the hate at old harlaw Last Line: The more they're to your liking. Subject(s): Teaching & Teachers; Educators; Professors THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As mailie, an' her lambs together Last Line: And clos'd her een amang the dead! Subject(s): Lambs THE DEATH OF JOHN M'LEOD, ESQ., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad thy tale, thou idle page Last Line: Shall happy be at last. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEIL'S AWA WI' TH' EXCISEMAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deil cam fiddlin thro' the town Last Line: The deil's awa, &c. Variant Title(s): The Exciseman Subject(s): Taxes THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bairns gat out wi' an unco shout Last Line: And oh, I find it sairly, o! Subject(s): Seduction; Marriage THE EPISTLE TO MRS. SCOTT OF WAUCHOPE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind it weel in early date Last Line: Ne'er at your hallan ca'! Subject(s): Farm Life; Women THE FAREWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old scotia's bleak domains Last Line: I'll never see thee more! Subject(s): Farewell; Parting THE FAREWELL. TO THE BRETHREN OF ST. JAMES'S LODGE, TARBOLTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! A heart-warm fond adieu Last Line: To him, the bard that's far awa. Subject(s): Farewell; Brotherhood; Friendship; Parting THE FETE CHAMPETRE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha will to saint stephen's house Last Line: This festive fete champetre. Subject(s): Politics & Government; Supernatural; Love THE FIRST KISS AT PARTING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Humid seal of soft affections Last Line: So thrilling and sincere as thine! Subject(s): Farewell; Kisses; Parting THE FIRST PSALM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man, in life wherever plac'd Last Line: Shall ne'er be truly blest. Subject(s): God THE FIVE CARLINS; AN ELECTION BALLAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was five carlins in the south Last Line: May look weel to himsel. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE GALLANT WEAVER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where cart rins rowin to the sea Last Line: I love my gallant weaver. Subject(s): Weaving & Weavers THE GOLDEN LOCKS OF ANNA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yestreen I had a pint o' wine Last Line: The first should be my anna. Subject(s): Love THE HEATHER WAS BLOOMING, THE MEADOWS WERE MAWN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE HENPECK'D HUSBAND, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curs'd be the man, the poorest wretch in my life Last Line: I'd kiss her maids, and kick the perverse bitch. Subject(s): Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE HERON BALLADS: 1. FIRST BALLAD IN THROAT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom will you send to london town Last Line: They wad be blest that saw that. Subject(s): Elections; Voting; Voters; Suffrage THE HIGHLAND BALOU, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hee balou, my sweet wee donald Last Line: Syne to the highlands hame to me! THE HIGHLAND LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair Last Line: To sing my highland lassie, o. Subject(s): Girls THE HIGHLAND WIDOW'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! I am come to the low countrie Last Line: Sae wretched now as me. Subject(s): Lament THE HOLY FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a simmer sunday morn Last Line: Some ither day. Subject(s): Lord's Supper THE HUMBLE PETITION OF BRUAR WATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord, I know your noble ear Last Line: And athole's bonnie lasses! Subject(s): Athole, Scotland; Bruar Falls, Scotland; Waterfalls THE INVENTORY, IN ANSWER TO ... SURVEYOR OF TXAES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, as your mandate did request Last Line: Subscripsi huic, Subject(s): Mnemonics; Property; Taxes; Possessions THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lyart leaves bestrow the yird Last Line: One and all cry out, amen! Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Poverty; Brotherhood; Seduction; Wit & Humor; Labor & Laborers THE KIRK OF LAMINGTON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As cauld a wind as ever blew Last Line: Ye'se a' be het e'er I come back. Subject(s): Churches; Cathedrals THE KIRK'S ALARM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Orthodox, orthodox, who believe in john knox Last Line: She could ca'us nae waur than we are. Subject(s): Knox, John (1513-1572); Religion; Theology THE LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou pale orb, that silent shines Last Line: A faithless woman's broken vow! Subject(s): Unfaithfulness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE LASS O' BALLOCHMYLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas even: the dewy fields were green Last Line: With the bonnie lass o' ballochmyle. THE LASS OF ECCLEFECHAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gat ye me, o gat ye me Last Line: Wad airt me to my treasure. Subject(s): Marriage; Revenge THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED TO ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When januar' wind was blawing cauld Last Line: The lass that made the bed to me. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Regret; Seduction THE LAZY MIST HANGS FROM THE BROW OF THE HILL, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE LEA RIG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the hill the eastern star Last Line: My ain kind dearie o. Variant Title(s): My Ain Kind Dearie, O! Subject(s): Nature; Love; Supernatural THE LIBELLER'S SELF-REPROOF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rash mortal, and slanderous poet, thy name Last Line: Says, the more 'tis a truth, sir, the more 'tis a libel! Subject(s): Truth THE MINSTREL AT LINCLUDEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood by yon roofless tower Last Line: I winna venture't in my rhymes. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Death; Supernatural; Grief; Liberty; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ORDINATION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kilmarnock wabsters, fidge and claw Last Line: Like oil, some day. Subject(s): Beattie, James (1735-1803); Clergy; Poetry & Poets; Scotland; Teaching & Teachers; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Educators; Professors THE PARSON'S LOOKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That there is a falsehood in his looks Last Line: And sure they do not lie. Variant Title(s): On Hearing That There Was Falsehood Subject(s): Truth THE POET'S CHOICE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I murder hate, by field or flood Last Line: Within the arms of cozbi! Variant Title(s): I Murder Hate Subject(s): Hate THE POSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O luve will venture in, where it daur na weel be seen Last Line: And this will be a posie to my ain dear may. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of THE RANTIN DOG THE DADDIE O'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wha my babie-clouts will buy? Last Line: The rantin' dog, the daddie o't. Subject(s): Sex; Fathers THE RECOVERY OF MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But rarely seen since nature's birth Last Line: For jessy did not die. Subject(s): Healing; Cures THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN - PROLOGUE FOR MISS FONTENELLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things Last Line: Ah! Ca ira! The majesty of woman! Subject(s): Women's Rights; Feminism THE RIGS O' BARLEY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was upon a lammas night Last Line: Corn rigs, an' barley rigs, &c. Variant Title(s): Corn Riggs Subject(s): Love THE RONALDS OF THE BENNALS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In tarbolton, ye ken, there are proper young men Last Line: But deevil a shilling I awe, man. THE SLAVE'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was in sweet senegal that my foes did me enthrall Last Line: And alas! I am weary, weary o: Subject(s): Slavery; Serfs THE SOLDIER'S RETURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wild war's deadly blast was blawn Last Line: In day and hour of danger. Subject(s): Homecoming; Soldiers THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE SUNRISE OF THE POOR, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A darkened hut outlined against the sky Last Line: It is the call to labor, -- not death. THE TARBOLTON LASSES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If ye gae up to yon hill-tap Last Line: It's bessy's ain opinion! Subject(s): Women THE TOAD-EATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What of earls with whom you have supt Last Line: Though it crawl on the curl of a queen! Subject(s): Hate THE TOAST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fill me with the rosy wine Last Line: Thou hast given a peerless toast. Subject(s): Toasts THE TWA DOGS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in that place o' scotland's isle Last Line: Resolv'd to meet some ither day. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs THE TWA HERDS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O a' ye pious godly flocks Last Line: May a' pack aff. Subject(s): Fools; Religion; Sheep; Idiots; Theology THE VISION, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun had closed the winter day Last Line: In light away. THE WEARY PUND O' TOW, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weary pund, the weary pund Last Line: The weary pund, &c. Subject(s): Marriage; Drinks & Drinking THE WHISTLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing of a whistle, a whistle of worth Last Line: "the field thou hast won, by yon bright god of day!" Subject(s): Whistles & Whistling; War; Patriotism THE WINSOME WEE THING, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is a winsome wee thing Last Line: And think my lot divine. Variant Title(s): My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing Subject(s): Home; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WINTER IT IS PAST, AND THE SUMMER COMES AT LAST, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THE WOUNDED HARE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inhuman man! Curse on thy barbarous art Last Line: And curse the ruffian's aim, and mourn thy hapless fate. Variant Title(s): On Seeing A Wounded Hare Limp By Me Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Rabbits; Animal Abuse; Vivisection; Hares THEIR GROVES, O' SWEET MYRTLE LET FOREIGN LANDS RECKON, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THEN FILL THEM HIGH WITH GENEROUS JUICE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THENIEL MENZIES' BONNIE MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In coming by the brig o' dye Last Line: Theniel menzies' bonnie mary, &c. Subject(s): Love; Beauty THERE WAS A BONNIE LASS, AND A BONNIE, BONNIE LASS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE WAS A LASS, AND SHE WAS FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE WAS A LASS, THEY CA'D HER MEG, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE WAS A PIPER OUT O' FIFE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By yon castle wa,' at the close of the day Last Line: There'll never be peace till jamie comes hame. Subject(s): Peace THERE'S A YOUTH IN THIS CITY, IT WERE A GREAT PITY, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THERE'S NEWS, LASSIES, NEWS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THINE AM I, MY FAITHFUL FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THIRD EPISTLE TO JOHN LAPRAIK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guid speed and furder to you, johnny Last Line: Yours, rab the ranter. Subject(s): Lapraik, John (1727-1807) THIS IN NO MY AIN LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography THOUGH FICKLE FORTUNE HAD DECEIVED ME, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TIBBIE DUNBAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wilt thou go wi' me, sweet tibbie dunbar Last Line: And come in thy coatie, sweet tibbie dunbar. TIBBIE, I HAE SEEN THE DAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O tibbie, I hae seen the day Last Line: O tibbie, I hae seen the day, &c. Subject(s): Social Classes; Hypocrisy TITHER MORN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography TO -, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir / yours this moment I unseal Last Line: Robert burns. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Religion; Wit & Humor TO A CROW, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bold, amiable, ebon outlaw, grave and wise! Last Line: And her wide lap shall still provide for thee. TO A GENTLEMAN WHO SENT HIM A NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind sir, I've read your paper through Last Line: And pray a' gude things may attend you. Subject(s): Newspapers; Journalism; Journalists TO A LADY, WITH A PAIR OF DRINKING GLASSES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair empress of the poet's soul Last Line: Well charged with generous nappy! Subject(s): Glasses (tumblers) TO A LOUSE, ON SEEING ONE ON A LADY'S BONNET AT CHURCH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ha! Whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie! Last Line: And ev'n devotin! Subject(s): Insects; Lice; Bugs TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, modest crimson-tipped flower Last Line: Shall be thy doom! Variant Title(s): A Mountain Daisy Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Plants; Plowing & Plowmen; Planting; Planters TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO ALEX. CUNNINGHAM, WRITER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My godlike friend - nay! Do not stare Last Line: The process of bewitching? Subject(s): Writing & Writers TO ALEXANDER FINDLATER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear sir, our lucky humbly begs Last Line: Or may I die upon a whittle %your friend and servant %robt. Burns TO AN ARTIST, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear - , I'll gie ye some advice Last Line: But no sae weel a stranger. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters TO CAPTAIN RIDDEL ON RETURNING A NEWSPAPER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your news and review, sir, I've read through and Last Line: And then all the world, sir, should know it! Subject(s): News TO DAVIE SILLAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's hardly in a body's pow'r TO DR. MAXWELL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maxwell, if merit here you crave Last Line: An angel could not die! Subject(s): Physicians; Sickness; Doctors; Illness TO GAVIN HAMILTON, RECOMMENDING A BOY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hold it, sir, my bounden duty Last Line: Of grateful minstrel burns. TO JOHN M'MURDO, ESQ, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, could I give thee india's wealth TO JOHN TAYLOR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With pegasus upon a day Last Line: I'll pay you like my master. Subject(s): Poverty; Labor & Laborers TO LUATH (ROBERT BURNS' DOG), by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, luath, man, when you came prancing Last Line: And yours the blame! Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Animals; Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Dogs; Poetry & Poets TO MARY IN HEAVEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lingering star, with lessening ray Last Line: Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement TO MISS CRUIKSHANK, A SCHOOLGIRL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous rose-bud, young and gay Last Line: The loveliest form she e'er gave birth. Subject(s): Beauty; Girls TO MISS FERRIER; ENCLOSING THE ELEGY ON SIR J. H. BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nae heathen name shall I prefix Last Line: A' gude things may attend you! TO MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine be the volumes, jessy fair Last Line: So prays thy faithful friend, the bard. Subject(s): Books; Gifts & Giving; Reading TO MISS LOGAN, WITH BEATTIE'S POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again the silent wheels of time Last Line: An edwin still to you. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Holidays; New Year TO MR. JOHN KENNEDY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now kennedy, if foot or horse Last Line: An' gude be wi' you. Subject(s): Friendship; Poverty; Drinks & Drinking TO MR. MACKENZIE, SURGEON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friday first's the day appointed Last Line: That saturday you'll fetch him. Subject(s): Physicians; Doctors TO MR. RENTON, BERWICK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your billet, sir, I grant receipt Last Line: And to his goodness I commend ye. Subject(s): Grief; Death TO MR. SYME WITH A DOZEN OF PORTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, had the malt thy strength of mind Last Line: A gift that e'en for syme were fit. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Beer; Drinks & Drinking; Gifts & Giving; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Ale; Wine TO ROBERT BURNS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet singer that I loe the maist Last Line: To see how simple worth may shame %their brightest glent Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry And Poets TO ROBERT BURNS; AN EPISTLE ON INSTINCT, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art a poet, robbie burns Last Line: My friendly sentence. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets TO ROBERT GRAHAM OF FINTRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call no goddess to inspire my strains Last Line: And grateful would, but cannot speak the rest. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving TO RUIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Inexorable lord Last Line: Within thy cold embrace! Subject(s): Poverty; Grief; Social Classes TO TERRAUGHTY, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Health to the maxwells' veteran chief Last Line: While burns they ca' me. Subject(s): Birthdays TO THE BEAUTIFUL ELIZA J - N, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How, liberty! Girl, can it be by thee named Last Line: And over their hearts a proud despot so reignest. Subject(s): Freedom; Women's Rights; Liberty; Feminism TO THE DEVIL, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But fare you weel, auld nickie-bea! TO THE SAME (JOHN LAPRAIK), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While new-ca'd kye rowte at the stake Last Line: Each passing year! Variant Title(s): To The Same Subject(s): Lapraik, John (1727-1807) TRAGIC FRAGMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All devil as I am, a damned wretch Last Line: As thou in natural parts has given me more. TRUE PATHOS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make a happy fireside TRUE UNTIL DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a' for our rightfu' king Last Line: The lee-lang night, and weep. Variant Title(s): The Farewell;it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King Subject(s): Absence; Courage; Separation; Isolation; Valor; Bravery TRUE-HEARTED WAS HE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True hearted was he, the sad swain o' the yarrow Last Line: Her modest demeanour's the jewel of a'. TWA BONNY LADS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twa bonny lads were sandy and jockie Last Line: So jockie had siller, and sandy had pleasure Variant Title(s): Sandy And Jocki TWAS NA HER BONNIE BLUE E'E, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography ULTIMA THULE: ROBERT BURNS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see amid the fields of ayr Last Line: Dear guest and ghost! Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets UP IN THE MORNING EARLY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west Last Line: Up in the morning's, &c. Subject(s): Morning; Waking VERSES FOR A NOBLE EARL'S PICTURE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whose is that noble, dauntless brow Last Line: It dwells upon glencairn. Subject(s): Portraits VERSES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF DRUMLANRIG WOODS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As on the banks o' wandering nith Last Line: "that reptile wears a ducal crown." Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Woods VERSES TO J. RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a keeper of the law Last Line: A whaup's I' the nest! Subject(s): Gossip VERSES TO MISS GRAHAM OF FINTRY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the scottish muse immortal lives Last Line: And heaven-born piety her sanction seals. Subject(s): Virtue VERSES TO RANKINE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae day, as death, that gruesome carl Last Line: And quickly stoppit rankine's breath. Subject(s): Epitaphs VERSES WRITTEN UNDER FERGUSSON'S PORTRAIT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleas'd Last Line: Yet has so keen a relish of its pleasures? Subject(s): Fergusson, Robert (1750-1774) VERSES WRITTEN UNDER VIOLENT GRIEF, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept the gift a friend sincere WAE IS MY HEART, AND THE TEAR'S IN MY EYE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here awa, there awa, wandering willie Last Line: But, dying, believe that my willie's my ain! Subject(s): Love; Grief WANTONNESS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wantonness for ever mair Last Line: I hae won their wanton favour WAR SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies Last Line: O! Who would not die with the brave! Variant Title(s): Song Of Death Subject(s): War WEARY FA' YOU, DUNCAN GRAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WEE WILLIE GRAY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee willie gray, and his leather wallet Last Line: Feathers of a flee wad feather up his bonnet. WHA IS THAT AT MY BOWER DOOR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHAN I SLEEP I DREAM, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE DO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can a young lassie, what shall a young lassie Last Line: And then his auld brass will buy me a new pan. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences WHEN FIRST I CAME TO STEWART KYLE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHEN FIRST I SAW FAIR JEANIE'S FACE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHEN GUILFORD GOOD OUR PILOT STOOD, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHEN IN THE NIGHT WE WAKE AND HEAR THE RAIN, by ROBERT BURNS WILSON Poem Source Poet's Biography WHEN PRINCES AND PRELATES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When princes and prelates / and het-headed zealots Last Line: And lang may they tak a gude mowe. Subject(s): Brunswick, Charles. Duke (1735-1810); War WHEN SHE CAM BEN, SHE BOBBED, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O when she cam ben, she bobbed fu' law! Last Line: And lady jean was never sae braw. WHERE HAE YE BEEN SAE BRAW, LAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WHISTLE O'ER THE LAVE O'T, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First when maggy was my care Last Line: Whistle o'er the lave o't! WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad Last Line: O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings WHY, WHY TELL THY LOVER, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WILL YE GO TO THE INDIES, MY MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O willie brew'd a peck o' maut Last Line: We are na fou, &c. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse WILLIE CHALMERS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wi' braw new branks in mickle pride Last Line: To you and willie chalmers. Subject(s): Courtship WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography WINTER (A DIRGE), by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wintry wast extends his blast Last Line: Assist me to resign. Subject(s): Winter WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ae night the storm the steeples rocked Last Line: Or, thro' the mining outlet bocked WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blow, blow, ye winds, with heavier gust! Last Line: Woe, want, and murder o'er a land! WRITING VERSES, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just now I've ta'en a fit of rhyme WRITTEN BENEATH A PORTRAIT OF ROBERT BURNS, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou of the wild impassioned brain WRITTEN IN VISTORS' BOOK AT THE BIRTHPLACE OF ROBERT BURNS, by GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of heavenly stature, but most human smile Last Line: Whose thorns are in his hands. Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Poetry & Poets WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HANNAH MORE'S WORKS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou flattering mark of friendship kind Last Line: A friend aboon the lift. Subject(s): More, Hannah (1745-1833) WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once fondly lov'd, and still remember'd dear Last Line: Or haply lies beneath th' atlantic roar. Subject(s): Love; Time WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, FOR CHLORIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis friendship's pledge, my young, fair friend Last Line: These joys could he improve. Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Beauty; Dead, The WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL AT KENMORE, TAYMOUTH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Admiring nature in her wildest grace Last Line: And injur'd worth forget and pardon man. WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL AT THE FALL OF FYERS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the heathy hills and ragged woods Last Line: And still, below, the horrid cauldron boils -- Subject(s): Waterfalls YE HAE LIEN A' WRANG, LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YE JACOBITES BY NAME, GIVE AN EAR, GIVE AN EAR, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YE SONS OF OLD KILLIE - A MASONIC SONG, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of old killie, assembled by willie Last Line: And brotherly love be the centre! Subject(s): Freemasons; Masonic Societies YON WILD MOSSY MOUNTAINS SAE LOFTY AND WIDE, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YOUNG JAMIE, PRIDE OF A' THE PLAIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YOUNG JOCKEY WAS THE BLYTHEST LAD, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography YOUNG PEGGY BLOOMS OUR BONNIEST LASS, by ROBERT BURNS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography |
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