Author:Robert Burns

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Robert Burns (1759–1796)

See biography, media, quotes. A poet and songwriter. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, and is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is also in English and in a "light" Scots dialect which would have been accessible to a wider audience than simply Scots speakers. The icon  identifies that the work includes a spoken word version.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 A-B 1.2 C-D 1.3 E 1.4 F-G 1.5 H-J 1.6 L-N 1.7 O-R 1.8 S-U 1.9 V-Z 2 Works about Burns 3 Articles 4 External links

[edit] Works

• 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e

[edit] A-B

• Address of Beelzebub
• Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on Her Benefit Night
• Address to a Haggis
• Address to Edinburgh
• Address to the Deil
• Address to the Shade of Thomson
• Address to the Toothache
• Address to the Unco Guid, or The Rigidly Righteous
• Address to the Woodlark
• Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
• Ae Fond Kiss, and Then We Sever
• Ah, Woe is Me, My Mother Dear
• Altho' He Has Left Me
• Anna, Thy Charms
• Another (Epigram on the Said Occasion...On a Henpecked Country Squire)
• Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine
• Auld Lang Syne
• Auld Rob Morris
• Awa' Whigs, Awa'

• Ballad on the American War
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad First
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad Second
• Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election - Ballad Third
• The Banks O'Doon
• Bannocks O' Bear Meal
• A Bard's Epitaph
• Behold the Hour, the Boat Arrive
• Behold the Hour, the Boat, Arrive
• Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
• Bessy and Her Spinnin' Wheel
• Beware O' Bonie Ann
• Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787
• Blythe Hae I been on Yon Hill
• Blythe was She
• Bonie Dundee
• Bonie Jean-a Ballad
• Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
• Bonie Peggy Alison
• Bonnie Lass of Albanie
• A Bottle and Friend
• Braving Angry Winter's Storms
• Braw Lads O' Galla Water
• The Braw Wooer
• The Brigs Of Ayr (Shorter version) 1786
• The Brigs Of Ayr (Full version) 1786
• Burlesque Lament for the Absence of William Creech, Publisher
• By Allan Stream

[edit] C-D

• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
• Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (Second Version)
• Caledonia - A Ballad
• The Calf
• Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
• The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
• Carle, an the King Come
• Castle Gordon
• Charlie, He's My Darling
• The Charming Month of May
• Clarinda, Mistress of My Soul
• Cock Up Your Beaver
• Come, Let Me Take Thee to My Breast
• Comin' Through the Rye
• Complimentary Epigram on Maria Riddell
• Complimentary Versicles to Jessie Lewars
• Compliments of John Syme of Ryedale
• Composed in Spring
• Contented Wi' Little and Cantie Wi' Mair
• The Cooper O' Cuddy
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• Craigieburn Wood (1791)
• Craigieburn Wood (1795)
• Crowdie Ever Mair

• Dainty Davie
• Damon and Sylvia
• The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe. An Unco Mournfu' Tale
• Death and Doctor Hornbook
• Delia, an Ode
• The Dean of Faculty
• A Dedication
• Deluded Swain, the Pleasure
• Despondency: An Ode
• Divine Service in the Kirk of Lamington
• Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
• A Dream
• Down the Burn, Davie
• Duncan Davison
• Duncan Gray

[edit] E

• Election Ballad
• Election Ballad for Westerha'
• Elegy on "Stella"
• Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
• Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux
• Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
• Elegy on the Late Miss Burnet of Monboddo
• Elegy on the Year 1788
• Elegy on Willie Nicol's Mare
• Epigram Addressed to an Artist
• Epigram at Brownhill Inn
• Epigram at Roslin Inn
• Epigram on a Country Laird
• Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary
• Epigram on Miss Davies
• Epigram on Mr. James Gracie
• Epigram on Parting with a Kind Host in the Highlands
• Epigram on Rough Roads
• Epigram on Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
• Epigram on the Laird of Laggan
• Epigram on the Said Occasion (On s Henpecked Country Squire)
• Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church
• Epigram to Miss Jean Scott
• Epigrams against the Earl of Galloway
• Epistle from Esopus to Maria
• Epistle to a Young Friend
• Epistle to Colonel De Peyster
• Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
• Epistle to Dr. Blacklock
• Epistle to Hugh Parker
• Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scottish Bard
• Epistle to James Smith
• Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner
• Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock
• Epistle to John Maxwell, ESQ., of Terraughty
• Epistle to John Rankine
• Epistle to Major Logan
• Epistle to Mrs. Scott
• Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry
• Epistle to the Rev. John M'math
• Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. 1786
• Epitaph for H - L -, Esq., of L -
• Epitaph for James Smith
• Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson
• Epitaph for Mr. W. Cruikshank
• Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell
• Epitaph for Mr. William Michie
• Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
• Epitaph for William Nicol, of the High School, Edinburgh
• Epitaph on "Wee Johnie"
• Epitaph on a Lap-Dog Named Echo
• Epitaph on a Noted Coxcomb
• Epitaph on Holy Willie
• Epitaph on James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton 1784
• Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
• Epitaph on John Rankine
• Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father 1784
• Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in Tarbolton
• Esteem for Chloris
• Extemporaneous Effusion
• Extempore in the Court of Session
• Extempore on Some Commemorations of Thomson
• Extempore Reply to an Invitation

[edit] F-G

• Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
• Farewell Thou Stream
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• Farewell to Eliza
• Fickle Fortune
• A Fiddler in the North
• The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm Versified
• The Flowery Banks of Cree
• For A' That
• For the Sake o' Somebody
• Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
• The Fornicator
• Frae the Friends and Land I Love
• Fragment of Song (1786)
• Fragment of Song (1792)

• The Gallant Weaver
• Go On, Sweet Bird, and Sooth My Care
• A Grace after Dinner, Extempore
• Grace after Meat
• Grace before and after Meat
• A Grace before Dinner, Extempore
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Gude Ale Keeps the Heart Aboon
• Gudewife, Count the Lawin

[edit] H-J

• Had I the Wyte? She Bade Me
• A Health to Ane I Loe Dear
• The Highland Balou
• Highland Mary
• The Highland Widow's Lament
• Holy Willie's Prayer
• How Cruel Are the Parents
• How Lang and Dreary is the Night
• The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water

• I'll Aye Ca' in by Yon Town
• Inconstancy in Love
• Inscription
• Inscription for an Altar of Independence 1795
• Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry
• Inscription to Miss Jessy Lewars

• Jockey's Taen the Parting Kiss
• John Barleycorn
• The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata

[edit] L-N

• Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn 1791
• The Lass O' Ecclefechan
• The Lass That Made the Bed to Me
• A Lass Wi' A Tocher
• Lassie Wi' the Lint-White Locks
• The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
• The Lover's Morning Salute to His Mistress

• Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
• A Man's a Man for A' That (or: Is There for Honest Poverty)
• Mark Yonder Pomp of Costly Fashion
• The Minstrel at Lincluden
• Monody on a lady Famed for Her Caprice
• A Mother's Lament For the Death of Her Son

• My Nanie's Awa
• My Spouse Nancy
• A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
• News, Lassies, News
• Nine Inch Will Please a Lady

[edit] O-R

• O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
• O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
• O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
• O Let Me in Thes Ae Night
• O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun
• O That's the Lassie O' My Heart
• O Wat Ye Wha's In Yon Town
• O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
• Ode for General Washington's Birthday 1784
• Of a' the Airts
• On a Swearing Coxcomb
• On Chloris Being Ill
• On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton. Epitaph 1784
• On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday
• On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
• On the Seas and Far Away

• Philly and Willy Dialogue
• A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
• Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
• Pretty Peg

• Raging Fortune
• A Red, Red Rose
• Remorseful Apology
• The Rigs o' Barley
• Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
• A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk

[edit] S-U

• Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
• Scotch Drink 1785
• Scots Wha' Hae 1793
• She Says She Loes Me Best of A'
• Sic a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation 1791
• Song
• Song (Ae fond kiss)
• Song (It was upon a Lammas night)
• Song Inscribed to Alexander Cunningham
• Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
• A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
• Sweet Afton

• Tam o' Shanter 1790
• The Banks O' Doon
  • The Banks O' Doon (1st version)
  • The Banks O' Doon (2nd version)
  • The Banks O' Doon (3rd version)
• The Brigs Of Ayr (Shorter version) 1786
• The Brigs Of Ayr (Full version) 1786
• The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
• The Soldier's Return 1793
• The Twa Dogs 1786
• The Tear-Drop
• Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
• There Was a Bonie Lass - A fragment
• Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
• This Is No My Ain Lassie
• Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
• A Tippling Ballad
• To a Louse
• To a Mouse
• The Trogger

[edit] V-Z

• Verses to Collector Mitchell
• A Vision

• A Waukrife Minnie
• Wee Willie Gray - A fragment
• When Princes and Prelates
• Where Are the Joys I have Met?
• Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime
• Why, Why Tell the Lover (Fragment)
• Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
• A Winter Night
• The Winter of Life
• The Wren's Nest (Fragment)

• Young Jamie, Pride of A' the Plain

[edit] Works about Burns

• "Robert Burns", by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Robert Burns article in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

[edit] Articles

• "Robert Burns" in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

[edit] External links

• Burns Country – more than 550 Robert Burns’ lyrics
• The Robert Burns World Federation – more than 640 Robert Burns’ lyrics in original and standard English translation
• Robert Burns Country - The Official Robert Burns Site

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.