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Anonymous[edit]
- 2 —
Ettrick Banks - 3 — Scornfu' Nancy aka Nancy's to the Greenwood Gane
- 4 — Bide ye yet (anonymous)
- 6 — The Brier Bush (with alterations by Burns)
- 7 — My wife has ta'en the gee
- 13 — Fare ye weel, my Auld Wife
- 14 — The Old Scottish Gentleman
- 19 — Old King Coul
- 488 — The Emigrant's Farewell (anonymous)
- ...
Q. K.[edit]
J. M.[edit]
A[edit]
Jean Adams[edit]
Hew Ainslie[edit]
- 57 — Tam o' the Balloch
- 113 — The Hameward Song
- 134 — Dowie in the hint o' hairst
- 134 — On wi' the Tartan
- 391 — The Rover o' Lochryan
- 396 — The Ingle Side
- 575 — Daft Days
James Aitchison[edit]
William Alexander (fl. 1843)[edit]
George Allan[edit]
Robert Allan[edit]
- 107 — A lassie cam' to our gate
- 109 — The Thistle and the Rose
- 109 — The Covenanter's Lament
- 248 — Bonnie lassie
- 249 — Caledonia (Allan)
- 256 — The Linnet
- 402 — Life's a faught
- 490 — Arran Maid
Ann Allardyce[edit]
Misattributed to 
Alexander Allardyce (1776-1833)
Robert Anderson (1770-1833)[edit]
John Anderson (fl. 1808-1839)[edit]
Thomas Anderson[edit]
William Anderson (1805-1866)[edit]
- 227 — Yonder sunny brae
- 228 — I canna sleep
- 228 — I'm naebody noo
- 527 — There's plenty come to woo me
John Campbell, Duke of Argyle (1680-1743)[edit]
David Arnot[edit]
Thomas Atkinson[edit]
Adam Austin[edit]
B[edit]
Joanna Baillie[edit]
- 2 — Fee him, Father
- 18 — It fell on a Morning
- 30 — Hooly and Fairly (Baillie)
- 69 — The Shepherd's Song (Baillie)
- 72 — Todlin' Hame (Baillie)
- 543 — Woo'd and married and a' (Baillie)
Lady Grizel Baillie[edit]
Andrew G. Bain[edit]
James Ballantine[edit]
John Barclay (1734-1798)[edit]
William Bennie[edit]
Francis Bennoch[edit]
- 10 — Hey, my bonnie wee lassie aka Natural Philosophy (Bennoch)
- 423 — Bessie
- 423 — Courtship
- 424 — To Isabel
- 472 — The Bonnie Wee Wifie
- 482 — Auld Peter McGowan
George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning[edit]
Patrick Birnie[edit]
Thomas Blacklock[edit]
Susanna Blamire[edit]
- 104 — The Nabob
- 105 — What ails this heart
- 118 — The Chelsea Pensioners
- 528 — The Waefu' Heart
- 532 — The Siller Crown
Alexander Boswell[edit]
- 13 — Auld Gudeman
- 60 — Jenny's Bawbee
- 186 — The Lass o' Isla
- 187 — Taste life's glad moments
- 219 — Jenny dang the Weaver
John Breckenridge[edit]
James Brown (d. 1836)[edit]
Thomas Brown (1778-1820)[edit]
Alexander Bryce[edit]
Thomas Brydson[edit]
Patrick Buchan[edit]
Alexander Buchanan[edit]
- 141 — I wander'd alane
- 243 — Handsome Katie (possibly by someone else named Buchanan)
- 424 — The Tocherless Lass
Nicol Burne[edit]
John Burns[edit]
Robert Burns (1759-1796)[edit]
- 6 — The Brier Bush
- 9 — My Nannie, O
- 21 — Sae flaxen were her ringlets
- 25 — Logan Water
- 28 — Will ye go to the Indies
- 29 — Lizzy Lindsay
- 30 — We're a' noddin'
- 31 — Tibbie Dunbar
- 32 — The lovely lass of Inverness (Burns)
- 33 — Charlie he's my darling
- 35 — A red, red Rose
- 40 — There was a lass
- 41 — My spouse, Nancy
- 42 — Somebody (Burns)
- 44 — John Highlandman
- 49 — Highland Mary (Burns)
- 49 — Mary Morison
- 51 — Such a parcel of rogues
- 54 — John Anderson, my jo
- 56 — Auld Lang Syne (Burns)
- 60 — I dream'd I lay
- 62 — Willie Wastle
- 64 — Song of Death
- 77 — Contented wi' little
- 82 — Duncan Gray (Burns)
- 83 — Auld Rob Morris (Burns)
- 86 — Banks o' Doon (version 1)
- 87 — Banks o' Doon (version 2)
- 89 — Their groves o' sweet myrtle
- 89 — My heart's in the Highlands
- 92 — Tam Glen
- 98 — Dainty Davie
- 98 — The Gardener wi' his paidle
- 103 — Ye Jacobites by Name
- 116 — Cessnock Banks
- 117 — Young Jocky
- 117 — The lad that's far awa'
- 120 — The Deil cam' Fiddlin'
- 121 — I gaed a waefu' gate
- 121 — Hey for a lass
- 123 — Polwarth on the Green
- 132 — Wha is she that lo'es me
- 133 — Jessie
- 146 — How can my poor heart
- 159 — Here's a health
- 160 — Bruce's Address (Burns) aka Scots Wha Hae
- 166 — The Rigs o' Barley (Burns) aka It was upon a Lammas night
- 172 — Battle of Sheriff-Muir (Burns)
- 175 — The gloomy night
- 177 — The Lover's Salute
- 177 — Mark yonder pomp
- 182 — Strathallan's Lament
- 182 — Beware o' bonnie Ann
- 191 — Blythe was she
- 206 — Whistle o'er the lave o't
- 209 — The Banks of the Devon
- 209 — Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks
- 209 — Craigie-burn-wood (version 1)
- 210 — Craigie-burn-wood (version 2)
- 214 — Jamie
- 214 — Nancy (Burns)
- 216 — Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
- 217 — The Soldier's Return
- 221 — Had I a cave
- 221 — Phillis the fair
- 221 — Adown winding Nith
- 225 — Deluded Swain
- 226 — The Woodlark (Burns)
- 230 — Handsome Nell
- 234 — For a' That (Burns, "Is there, for honest poverty") aka A Man's a Man for A' That
- 235 — For a' That (Burns, "I am a bard of no regard")
- 241 — Wilt thou be my dearie
- 242 — Young Peggy (Burns)
- 245 — Let me in this ae night
- 246 — Forlorn, my love
- 260 — The Joyfu' Widower
- 272 — She's fair and fause
- 283 — In Summer (Burns)
- 302 — My Nannie's awa'
- 305 — Address to a Lady
- 311 — Behold the hour
- 311 — My Bonnie Mary (Burns)
- 325 — The Campbell's Pibroch aka Out Over the Forth
- 331 — Comin' Thro' the Rye (attr. Burns)
- 334 — O, whistle
- 338 — Wandering Willie
- 339 — The Day Returns
- 341 — The Highland Lassie (Burns)
- 342 — To Mary in Heaven (Burns)
- 344 — Afton Water aka Sweet Afton
- 345 — Here is the glen
- 346 — Macpherson's Farewell
- 349 — The tither morn
- 351 — Last May a braw Wooer
- 352 — The bonnie Moor-hen
- 354 — The Ploughman (Burns)
- 365 — Eliza (Burns)
- 371 — Puirtith Cauld
- 382 — Queen Mary's Lament
- 414 — This is no my ain lassie
- 422 — Up in the morning early (Burns)
- 428 — Ae fond kiss
- 428 — Fair Eliza
- 429 — Blythe ha'e I been
- 429 — What can a young lassie
- 434 — Lovely Davies
- 434 — Bonnie Wee Thing
- 440 — Jockie's ta'en the parting kiss
- 441 — The lass that made the bed
- 441 — 'Twas na her bonnie blue e'e
- 447 — Menie
- 451 — The Posie
- 463 — The Cardin' o't
- 465 — Highland Harry (Burns)
- 466 — Ca' the Yowes (Burns)
- 470 — By Allan Stream
- 473 — The Lass of Ballochmyle
- 477 — Happy Friendship
- 478 — Killiecrankie,
- 484 — There'll never be peace
- 485 — O Mally's meek
- 488 — 'Twas nae her bonnie blue e'e
- 489 — O gin my love
- 490 — It is na, Jean
- 497 — She is a winsome
- 499 — Gala Water
- 501 — To Daunton me
- 511 — The Winter of Life
- 511 — Bess and her Wheel
- 512 — My love is but a lassie
- 512 — Come, let me take
- 523 — Birks of Aberfeldy (Burns)
- 529 — Lady Onlie
- 529 — Theniel Menzies' Mary
- 529 — Katy
- 530 — O lay thy loof in mine
- 531 — Robin shure in hairst
- 531 — RAnna (Burns) aka The Gowden Locks o' Anna
- 532 — O gude ale comes,
- 539 — Adieu for evermore,
- 540 — My Lady's Gown
- 546 — A Rose-bud
- 547 — O, were I on Parnassus
- 548 — Bonnie Lesley
- 549 — Peggy
- 551 — Lovely Polly Stewart
- 555 — Of a' the airts
- 558 — The Dumfries Volunteers
- 563 — The deuks dang o'er
- 566 — O, Kenmure's on and awa'
- 568 — Landlady count the lawin,
- 569 — The Highland Baloc
- 570 — Lord Gregory
- 570 — Open the door to me
- 573 — The Big-bellied Bottle
- 574 — Bonnie Dundee (Burns)
- 577 — Jeannie's Bosom
- 577 — Young Jamie
- 579 — The Highland Widow
- 580 — The weary pund o' tow
- 581 — The Banks of Aith
- 581 — The Gallant Weaver
- 583 — The Braes o' Ballochmyle
- 595 — O Tibbie
- 596 — Adieu (Burns)
Robert Burns (1786-1857)[edit]
John Burtt[edit]
- 299 — The Farewell (Burtt)
- 309 — O'er the mist-shrouded
- 312 — O lassie I lo'e dearest
- 312 — Advice to the Lasses
- 482 — Sweet the Bard
George Gordon Byron[edit]
- 65 — When I rov'd
- 369 — Loch-na-gar
C[edit]
William Cameron (1801-1877)[edit]
Duncan Campbell[edit]
Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)[edit]
- 58 — Dirge of Wallace
- 110 — Earl March
- 114 — The Evening Star (Campbell)
- 182 — O Cherub Content
- 187 — The Maid's Remonstrance
- 411 — The Jilted Nymph
- 445 — Gilderoy (Campbell)
Alexander Carlyle (1780-1860)[edit]
Robert Carmichael[edit]
James Carnegie[edit]
John Donald Carrick[edit]
William Chalmers[edit]
John Clerk of Penicuik[edit]
John Clunie[edit]
Archibald Cochrane[edit]
- 73 — The Totums
Alicia Cockburn[edit]
- 368 — The Flowers of the Forest (Cockburn)
- 538 — (there is no song on this page)
Erskine Conolly[edit]
Grace Corbett & Walterina Cunningham[edit]
Robert Couper[edit]
Archibald Crawfurd[edit]
G. Crawfurd (?)[edit]
Robert Crawford[edit]
- 11 — The Bush aboon Traquair
- 34 — Broom of Cowdenknows
- 302 — One day I heard Mary
- 449 — Tweedside (Crawford)
- 454 — Leader Haughs and Yarrow (Crawford)
- 480 — Doun the burn, Davie
- 493 — My dearie, if thou dee
- 498 — Peggy, I must love thee
- 504 — Hamilla
William Cross[edit]
J. G. Cumming (?)[edit]
Allan Cunningham (1784-1842)[edit]
- 20 — Bonnie Lady Ann
- 31 — We're a' noddin'
- 33 — The lovely lass of Inverness
- 43 — Hame, hame, hame
- 93 — The Wanton Wife
- 115 — Low Germanie
- 137 — My ain Countrie
- 264 — The Lass o' Preston Mill
- 271 — A wet sheet
- 319 — Bonnie Mary Halliday
- 366 — The waes o' Scotland
- 438 — The Mariner (Cunningham)
- 485 — The waes of Scotland
- 486 — The Young Maxwell
- 517 — I'll gar ye be fain
- 525 — Hey, how, my Johnnie lad
- 580 — There dwalt a man
John Cunningham[edit]
Thomas Mouncey Cunningham[edit]
- 318 — The Beggar (Cunningham)
- 388 — The unco Grave
- 470 — Farewell, ye Streams
- 557 — Mary's Grave
- 115 — The Hills o' Gallowa'
- 116 — The Braes of Ballahun
D[edit]
J. C. Denovan (?)[edit]
Thomas Dick (fl. 1843)[edit]
William Dobie[edit]
Thomas Dodds[edit]
John Dougal[edit]
- 393 — Leddie Anne
- 552 — Hame
William Douglas[edit]
Alexander Douglas[edit]
David Drummond[edit]
- 234 — probably "The bonnie lass o' Levenside", but it is missing from this edition
Mr. Dryden (?)[edit]
William Dudgeon[edit]
John Dunlop (1755-1820)[edit]
Thomas D'Urfey[edit]
- 145 — Within a mile of Edinburgh
- 177 — Deil tak' the wars
- 317 — My Jeanie and I
- 522 — Glancing of her Apron
E[edit]
Jane Elliot[edit]
Gilbert Elliot[edit]
Andrew Erskine[edit]
Harry Erskine[edit]
John Ewing[edit]
F[edit]
William Falconer (1732-1769)[edit]
Robert Fergusson[edit]
- 3 — The Lea Rig
- 100 — Hallow-fair
William Fergusson[edit]
- 138 — Wooing Song
- 142 — Beechen Tree
- 142 — I'm wandering wide
- 300 — Carle Time
- 415 — Our ain Land
- 495 — I'll tend thy bower
Susan Ferrier[edit]
- 22 — The Laird o' Cockpen
- Note: this is misattributed to Ferrier, and is actually by Carolina Nairne
- Note: this is misattributed to Ferrier, and is actually by
John Finlay[edit]
William Finlay (1792-1847)[edit]
Charles James Finlayson[edit]
- 241 — O, my love's bonnie
- 261 — Auld Janet Baird
- 366 — Carron Flowery Braes (missing in this edition)
- 543 — The Lass o' Carron side.
Alexander Fisher (1788-1852)[edit]
John Fleming (d. 1851)[edit]
Angus Fletcher[edit]
- 295 — Lassie wi' the raven locks
- 295 — Blue-eyed Anne (Fletcher)
- 298 — The lassie o' the glen
- 299 — Poor Mary
Duncan Forbes (1685-1747)[edit]
Peter Forbes[edit]
David Fordyce[edit]
- 151 — The Black Eagle
- Note: this is misattributed to David Fordyce; it is apparently by his younger brother James Fordyce
William Air Foster[edit]
James Fraser (fl. 1817)[edit]
Robert Fraser (1798-1839)[edit]
William Henry Freeman[edit]
Alexander Fullarton[edit]
G[edit]
Richard Gall[edit]
- 5 — My only jo and dearie, O
- 195 — On the Death of Burns
- 196 — Glendochart Vale
- 196 — I winna gang back
- 196 — Cradle Song (Gall)
- 197 — The Hazlewood Witch
- 197 — Farewell to Ayrshire
- 393 — The Waits
Alexander Geddes[edit]
Mr Gibson (?)[edit]
Robert Gilfillan[edit]
- 16 — The Minstrel Sleeps
- 59 — The Emigrant's Complaint
- 229 — Lament for the Bards
- 247 — Janet and Me
- 253 — The simmer sun
- 280 — Oh, take me to yon sunny isle
- 397 — Marion
- 419 — A canty Sang
- 467 — Gather in
- 576 — One star of the morning
William Gilfillan[edit]
William Glen[edit]
- 80 — Wae's me for Prince Charlie
- 207 — Vittoria
- 251 — How eerily, how drearily
- 330 — Away to the mountains
- 372 — Cadogan's Lament
- 562 — Mary Gray
Jean Glover[edit]
John Goldie[edit]
Alexander Gordon (1743-1827), Duke of Gordon[edit]
Dougald Graham[edit]
Robert Cunninghame Graham[edit]
James Graham, Marquis of Montrose[edit]
John Graham[edit]
Joseph Grant[edit]
Elizabeth Grant (Mrs Grant of Carron)[edit]
- 8 — Roy's Wife
Anne Grant (Mrs Grant of Laggan)[edit]
Charles Gray[edit]
- 78 — Sweet Jeanie lass
- 192 — The Social Cup (version 1)
- 211 — When Autumn
- 211 — The Social Cup (version 2)
- 239 — Let Topers sing
- 260 — sequel to Maggie Lauder
- 260 — Though Boreas bauld
- 273 — A Lassie Fair
- 353 — Louisa's but a lassie
- 373 — The Minstrel (Gray)
- 415 — Fair fa' the Lasses
- 534 — The Lass of Pittenweem
- 574 — The Black-e'ed Lassie
- 595 — The Widow sae Young
T. C. Gray (?)[edit]
William Gray[edit]
John Grieve[edit]
- 124 — 'Twas summer tide
- 125 — Exile of Uldoonan
- 292 — Her blue rollin' e'e (note: the text attributes this poem to James Hogg)
- 401 — Lovely Mary
H[edit]
George Halket[edit]
W. Halley (?)[edit]
"Whitelaw prints an abridged version, and attributes the authorship to W. Halley, of whom, by the by, he gives no biographical or other particulars." — Robert Ford, Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland (1901)
Elizabeth Hamilton (1756-1816)[edit]
John Hamilton (1761-1814)[edit]
Robert Hamilton (fl. 1842-1850)[edit]
William Hamilton of Bangour (1704-1754)[edit]
- 48 — Ah, the poor Shepherd
- 236 — Ye gods
- 446 — Why hangs that cloud
- 457 — The Braes of Yarrow (Hamilton)
William Hamilton of Gilbertfield (1665-1751)[edit]
James Hedderwick[edit]
William Maxwell Hetherington[edit]
- 380 — Sandy,
- 541 — The Hawthorn Tree
Richard Hewit[edit]
John Hoadly[edit]
James Hogg[edit]
- 12 — The Laird o' Lamington
- 21 — Sing on, sing on
- 44 — Lament of Flora M'Donald
- 67 — Donald Macdonald
- 69 — O Jeanie
- 87 — Bonnie Prince Charlie
- 108 — When Maggie gangs away
- 113 — Peggie
- 122 — Love's like a dizziness
- 147 — The Auld Highlandman
- 153 — Callum-a-Glen
- 155 — When the kye come hame
- 155 — The Brakens wi' me
- 192 — Blythe and cheerie
- 201 — There's nae laddie coming
- 214 — Meg o' Marley
- 215 — A Boy's Song
- 269 — The Lark (Hogg)
- 298 — Old Nanny's Song
- 355 — I ha'e lost my love
- 362 — Iona
- 366 — The Covenanter's Tomb
- 388 — Cameron's Welcome hame
- 395 — Hill of Lochiel
- 402 — Lenachan's Farewell
- 507 — The Poor Man
- 508 — The Women Fo'k
- 508 — I'll no wake
- 509 — Caledonia (Hogg)
- 509 — Birniebouzle
- 510 — Auld John Nicol
- 510 — The Ladies' Evening Song
- 536 — Doctor Monroe
- 537 — The Stuarts of Appin
- 548 — My love she's but a lassie
- 558 — Oh hon a ri
- 566 — Donald Macgillavry
- 590 — Poor little Jessie
- 596 — Good night and joy
William Holmes (fl. 1843)[edit]
James Home[edit]
James Honeyman[edit]
Alexander Hume[edit]
- 37 — Oh, Poverty
- 37 — My Bessie
- 140 — Hills o' Caledonia
- 266 — Scotland dear
- 409 — My Love (Hume)
- 410 — Sandy Allan
- 471 — I've loved thee, love
- 521 — Why do ye tarry
Anne Hunter[edit]
- 403 — My Mother bids me bind
- 404 — In airy dreams
- 404 — Remembrance (Hunter)
- 404 — The Farewell (Hunter)
- 404 — Indian Death Song
I[edit]
John Imlah[edit]
- iii — Auld Scotia's Sangs
- 7 — There lives a young lassie
- 183 — Where Gadie rins
- 183 — Thou'rt sair alter'd
- 184 — We've drunk to them
- 185 — St. Andrew's Day
- 264 — Hey the Hielan Heather
- 265 — The Land o' Cakes
- 460 — Caledonia (Imlah)
J[edit]
James Jaap[edit]
John Jack[edit]
James V[edit]
Robert Jamieson[edit]
Charles Jefferys (1807-1865)[edit]
K[edit]
Alexander Keay[edit]
Ann Keith[edit]
- 363 — Oscar's Ghost.
Kilpatrick (?)[edit]
W. Kirby[edit]
"I have no idea (yet) who Mr Kirby is, except that he is credited with a few songs ('Harriet the Match Girl', 'My Helen is the Fairest Flower' aka 'The Rose Without a Thorn', 'Sing, Hey for the bottle', 'One little word, my love whispered to me', 'The Minstrel to his harp')" — Kurt of Gerolstein
- 264 — They're a' teasing me (version 1)
- 477 — They're a' teasing me (version 2)
Sheridan Knowles[edit]
Adam Knox[edit]
Patrick Knox[edit]
William Knox[edit]
L[edit]
William Laidlaw[edit]
Alexander Laing[edit]
- 36 — The Trysting Tree
- 80 — The Happy Mother
- 111 — Ae Happy Hour
- 126 — Lass, gin ye wad lo'e
- 184 — My Ain Wife
- 258 — Glen-na-H'Albyn
- 267 — Mary Cowley
- 284 — The Unhappy Father
- 358 — The Braes of Mar
- 405 — Wedded Love
- 405 — Our gudeman
- 448 — Blue-e'ed Mary
- 493 — O wat ye wha
- 497 — Though dowie's the Winter
- 562 — The Blythesome Lad
- 591 — The Maid o' Montrose
John Lapraik[edit]
Thomas Carstairs Latto[edit]
- 140 — The Kiss ahint the Door
- 141 — The Prince's Street Beau
- 231 — The blind lassie
- 462 — When we were at the Schule
- 467 — The widow's ae bit Lassie
- 487 — Phemie
- 489 — The yellow-haired Laddie
- 525 — Tell me, Dear
- 583 — Sly Widow Skinner
James Lawson[edit]
- 249 — Campsie Glen.
John Learmont[edit]
James Lemon[edit]
Stewart Lewis[edit]
John Leyden[edit]
Anne Barnard[edit]
George Linley[edit]
Robert Lochore[edit]
- 206 — Marriage and the care o't
- 208 — Mary's twa lovers
- 379 — Now Jenny, lass (attributed in the text to "Mr. Somerville")
J. G. Lockhart[edit]
William Lockhart (fl. 19th century) (?)[edit]
John Logan[edit]
- 399 — While frequent on Tweed
- 456 — The Braes of Yarrow (Logan)
- 487 — The Light of the Moon
- 492 — The Esk
John Lowe (1750-1798)[edit]
Thomas Lyle[edit]
M[edit]
Peter MacArthur[edit]
Evan MacColl[edit]
- 132 — The Hills of the Heather
- 133 — The Shepherd Boy (MacColl)
- 133 — Glenaray
- 422 — When I am far away
- 452 — The Bonnie Scotch Lass
Robert Macconachey[edit]
I can find no record of any person by this name, much less any such associated with any of the poems on page 216
- 216 — ????
John Macdiarmid[edit]
James Macdonald (1807-1848)[edit]
- 38 — Bonnie Aggie Lang
- 131 — The lass ayont the hill
- 198 — The Pride o' the Glen
- 225 — Hie to the woodlands, hie
- 234 — The Lark and Wren
- 251 — Jeanie Graham
- 290 — My first and last love
- 354 — The Lass o' Craigie Hill (not in this edition)
- 392 — Mary (Macdonald)
- 411 — My bonnie lassie's dead
- 431 — The Woods o' Castle Doune
- 432 — The Thistle
- 435 — O Leeze me on the Glen
- 452 — Young Phemie
- 488 — Killearn Glen (not in this edition)
George Macfarren[edit]
Alexander MacGilvray[edit]
Joseph Macgregor[edit]
Archibald MacKay[edit]
Charles Mackay[edit]
Ewen Maclachlan[edit]
Alexander Maclaggan[edit]
- 138 — My ain countrie
- 139 — O gin I were
- 139 — Phœbe Graeme
- 144 — The Thistle (Maclaggan)
- 300 — The autumn leaves
- 417 — The Scotch Blue-bell
William McLaren[edit]
Norman Macleod[edit]
Murdoch MacLennan[edit]
Hector Macneill[edit]
- 9 — Mary of Castle-Cary
- 32 — Come under my Plaidie
- 293 — probably The spinning o't, but this is not Macneill's poem (Macneill wrote a similar poem called "The Auld Wife's Lament" in 1804)
- 308 — Jeanie's black e'e
- 337 — I lo'ed ne'er a laddie but ane
- 340 — The way for to woo
- 406 — My luve's in Germany
- 408 — Dinna think, bonnie lassie
- 474 — My boy, Tammy
Daniel MacPhail[edit]
Mr McVicar (?)[edit]
"This Highland Queen, music and poetry, was composed by Mr. McVicar, purser of the Solebay man of war.—This I had from Dr. Blacklock." —Robert Burns,
David Mallet[edit]
Patrick Maxwell[edit]
James Mayne[edit]
John Mayne (1759-1836)[edit]
Andrew Mercer[edit]
William Julius Mickle[edit]
William Millar[edit]
Robert Miller[edit]
William Miller (1810-1872)[edit]
Robert Milliken[edit]
John Mitchell (1786-1856)[edit]
- 79 — Hame (Mitchell)
- 130 — The Maid I lo'e
- 131 — Benlomond
- 143 — Poor me
- 258 — The Heathy Hills
- 265 — The simmer morn
- 269 — O give me the ear
- 421 — The leal light heart
- 429 — The days of my youth
Joseph Mitchell[edit]
David Macbeth Moir[edit]
Dugald Moore[edit]
Thomas Morton[edit]
William Motherwell[edit]
- 27 — Tho' simmer smiles
- 50 — Jeanie Morrison
- 152 — My heid is like to rend
- 281 — Wae be to the orders
- 367 — Ye bonnie haughs
- 384 — Wearie's Well
- 401 — The Mermaiden
- 424 — A steed, a steed
- 584 — The bloom hath fled
- 593 — The Lady of my Heart
John Moultrie[edit]
James Muirhead (1742-1808)[edit]
Mr Munro (?)[edit]
"All we can learn of the authorship of this beautiful song is that it was written by a gentleman of the name of Munro, and set to music by the Earl of Eglinton" - John M. Miller, Miller's New British Songster (1853)
George Murray (...)[edit]
James Murray (...)[edit]
https://archive.org/details/poetsofayrshiref00maciuoft/page/326/mode/2up?q=%22james+murray%22
- 39 — Neidpath
- 39 — Esabell
- 367 — I canna smile
- 394 — Farewell (Murray)
- 484 — Lament (Murray) (first published in Original National Melodies of Scotland (1838))
N[edit]
Carolina Nairne[edit]
- 22 — The Laird o' Cockpen (misattributed to Susan Ferrier in this edition)
John Nevay[edit]
William Nicholson (1782-1849)[edit]
- 114 — Peggie (Nicholson)
- 114 — My ain Bonnie May
- 394 — Culloden (Nicholson)
- 397 — The Hills of the Highlan's
- 398 — The banks of Tarf
James Nicol (1769-1819)[edit]
- 222 — Halucket Meg
- 316 — While some to distant
- 416 — Where Quair rins sweet
- 486 — My dear little Lassie
Robert Nicoll[edit]
- 224 — Janet Dunbar
- 252 — The Spinnin' Wheel
- 255 — Janet Macbean
- 379 — Janet (Nicoll)
- 380 — Summer Wooing
- 382 — The Making o' the Hay
- 396 — The Bonnie Rowan Bush
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton[edit]
O[edit]
Done
P[edit]
Isabel Pagan[edit]
Andrew Park[edit]
- 270 — Hurra for the Highlands
- 353 — There is a bonnie flower
- 381 — The Auld Folks
- 591 — Sandyford Ha'
James Parker[edit]
John Parry[edit]
William Paul[edit]
Pearson[edit]
There is no poem on page 294 by someone named Pearson
- 294
Daniel Terry[edit]
Miscredited as "D. Perry"
- 491 — Native Land a.k.a. Caledonia, Native Land (from the opera Guy Mannering)
Ebenezer Picken[edit]
George Pickering[edit]
John Pinkerton[edit]
James Robinson Planche[edit]
Edward Polin[edit]
- 97 — "It's weel it's nae waur"
- 97 — "A good old Song"
- 440 — "I canna be fashed"
- 513 — A Lassie's Wonders
- 576 — Married the Morn
Thomas Pringle[edit]
- 23 — The Emigrant's Farewell (Pringle)
- 23 — Maid of my Heart
- 433 — O the Ewe-bughting's bonnie
- 459 — Love's Constancy
Q[edit]
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R[edit]
Allan Ramsay[edit]
- 4 — Bonnie Chirsty
- 27 — The Waukin' o' the Fauld
- 42 — Somebody (Ramsay)
- 56 — Auld Lang Syne (Ramsay)
- 62 — Genty Tibby
- 121 — Gi'e me a lass
- 123 — Polwarth on the Green
- 137 — Lochaber
- 158 — Saw ye nae my Peggy
- 165 — Corn Rigs
- 224 — The Collier's bonnie lassie
- 240 — Up in the air
- 274 — The Highland Laddie (Ramsay)
- 303 — Hap me wi' thy petticoat
- 305 — The Lass o' Livingstone
- 314 — Peggy and Patie
- 314 — On Whitsunday morning
- 339 — The lily of the vale
- 362 — Bessie Bell & Mary Gray
- 370 — Wap at the Widow
- 372 — The Lass o' Patie's Mill
- 386 — The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katie (two poems)
- 389 — Gin ye meet a bonnie lassie
- 413 — This is no mine ain house
- 455 — Mary Scott
- 457 — Busk ye, busk ye
- 460 — Love inviting Reason
- 481 — I cam' o'er the muir
- 481 — The Braes of Branksome
- 498 — Peggy, I must love thee
- 500 — An thou were my ain thing
- 502 — The Bonnie Scot
- 503 — Ower Bogie
- 503 — Bonnie Jean (Ramsay)
- 505 — I'll never leave thee
- 515 — Through the wood, laddie
- 515 — Green Sleeves (Ramsay)
- 516 — There's my thumb
- 526 — Woe's my heart (two poems)
- 527 — The Soger Laddie (Ramsay)
- 528 — Patie and Peggie
- 555 — Dear Roger, if your Jenny
- 557 — O'er the muir to Maggy
- 560 — Peggy, now the king's come
- 562 — At setting day
- 578 — O, wha's that
William Reid[edit]
- 3 — The Lea Rig
- 54 — John Anderson, my jo
- 238 — Cauld Kail in Aberdeen (Reid)
- 400 — Fair modest flower
- 534 — Kate o' Gowrie
- 555 — Of a' the airts
Maria Riddell[edit]
Henry Scott Riddell[edit]
- 247 — Scotland yet
- 261 — The Wee Auld Man
- 306 — The Crook and Plaid
- 459 — The Dowie Dens of Yarrow (Riddell)
- 468 — Ours is the land
- 541 — The Wild Glen
Alexander A. Ritchie (?)[edit]
Could be the painter (fl. 1830-45) whose prints can be found on various auction sites when googling "Alexander A. Ritchie"
George Robertson (...)[edit]
Also wrote some poems in The Columbian Lyre and was editor of the Savannah Georgian newpaper briefly in the 1830s
John Robertson (c. 1770-1810)[edit]
http://www.grianpress.com/Tannahill/TANNAHILL%27S%20LETTERS%2019.htm
Alexander Rodger[edit]
- 148 — Shon M'Nab
- 150 — Lauchie's Promotions
- 162 — Behave yoursel' before folk
- 163 — It's no that thou'rt bonnie
- 164 — I'll awa' hame
- 165 — My mither men't
- 173 — The Drygate Brig
- 335 — Come hame to your lingels
- 437 — Bet of Aberdeen
- 556 — The Lasses a' leugh
- 573 — My Gudeman
- 587 — Sanct Mungo
Alexander Ross (1699-1784)[edit]
Mary Ross[edit]
Richard Ryan[edit]
Janet Ryland[edit]
S[edit]
W. B. Sangster (?)[edit]
- 353 — Sailor's Wife's Song
- 364 — O wake thee
- 528 — Cold, cold's the hand
- 535 — Cherry Valley
- 552 — The dying Girl's song
James Scadlock[edit]
Andrew Scott[edit]
Charles Scott[edit]
Mrs. Scott (?)[edit]
Walter Scott[edit]
- 12 — Nora's Vow
- 15 — Blue bonnets over the border
- 22 — Jock o' Hazeldean
- 74 — Allen-a-dale
- 90 — Romance of Dunois
- 157 — Pibroch of Donuil Dhu aka Pibroch of Donald Dhu
- 157 — Macgregor's Gathering
- 158 — Donald Caird
- 207 — Boat Song (Scott) (from The Lady of the Lake)
- 232 — Soldier, rest
- 315 — All joy was bereft me
- 339 — Where shall the lover rest
- 397 — The Captive Huntsman
- 539 — A weary lot is thine
- 559 — He is gone on the mountain
- 562 — The heath this night
William Scott[edit]
Charles Sedley[edit]
Francis Semple[edit]
William Aitken Carmichael Shand[edit]
Andrew Sharpe[edit]
Andrew Sheriffs[edit]
Charles Doyne Sillery[edit]
John Sim[edit]
- 103 — O, thou hast seen
- 193 — Kelvin Grove
- 252 — Nae mair we'll meet
- 282 — Anna (Sim)
- 284 — Bonnie Peggy
- 287 — Lullaby (Sim)
Andrew Simson[edit]
John Skinner[edit]
- 1 — Tullochgorum (Skinner)
- 45 — The Old Man's Song
- 75 — John o' Badenyon
- 88 — The Ewie
- 235 — Tune your Fiddles
- 278 — Lizy Liberty
Adam Skirving[edit]
Edward K. Sloan[edit]
Thomas Smail[edit]
Alexander Smart[edit]
Thomas Smibert[edit]
Charles Lessingham Smith[edit]
Tobias Smollett[edit]
Robert Spittal[edit]
Steele (?)[edit]
John Stewart (...)[edit]
Helen D'Arcy Stewart[edit]
James Stirling (...)[edit]
James Stirrat[edit]
- 219 — Henry
- 374 — The Barn, O
- 374 — Coila's Bard
- 376 — Mary (Stirrat)
- 377 — The setting Sun
John Struthers (1776-1853)[edit]
- 216 — Willie brew'd a peck o' maut
- 348 — On the wild braes of Calder
- 348 — Calder braes
- 348 — The Vale of Clyde
- 369 — African Song
Mr. Sutherland (?)[edit]
T[edit]
John Tait[edit]
Robert Tannahill[edit]
- 15 — The Soldier's Adieu (Tannahill) and My Ain Kind Dearie, O (Tannahill)
- 27 — Tho' simmer smiles
- 41 — Loudon's bonnie woods
- 58 — Wallace's Lament
- 103 — O sair I rue
- 108 — Barrochan Jean
- 110 — My Mary
- 118 — Dear Highland Laddie
- 156 — The Flower o' Dunblane aka Jessie the Flower o' Dunblane
- 156 — The Braes o' Gleniffer
- 238 — The Cogie (Tannahill)
- 242 — O, are ye sleeping, Maggie
- 272 — The Lass o' Arranteenie
- 273 — Gloomy Winter
- 327 — The wood of Craigie-lea
- 328 — Langsyne, beside
- 335 — Come hame to your lingels
- 369 — We'll meet beside
- 406 — Winter, wi' his cloudy brow
- 407 — The midges dance
- 407 — Our Bonnie Scots Lads
- 428 — Och, hey, Johnnie lad
- 450 — When John and me
- 465 — I mark'd a gem
- 513 — With waefu' heart
- 554 — Despairing Mary
- 556 — The Lasses a' leugh
- 567 — The Harper of Mull
- 578 — The Farewell (Tannahill)
- 586 — Thou gloomy Feberwar
George Taylor[edit]
William Thom[edit]
David Thomson (1774-1855)[edit]
James Thomson (1700-1748)[edit]
David Tough[edit]
Joseph Train[edit]
William Train[edit]
James Turner[edit]
James Tytler[edit]
U[edit]
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V[edit]
Harry Stoe Van Dyk[edit]
David Vedder[edit]
- 185 — The sun had slipped
- 231 — My Highland Vale
- 306 — Prince Charles Edward
- 418 — Aikendrum
- 576 — Bonnie Jean mak's muckle
- 587 — Sweet is the dawn
W[edit]
Walter Graham Blackie[edit]
a.k.a. "W. G. B." - see https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/a-private-poet-literary-pastimes-of-early-life
- 14 — The Old Scottish Gentleman
- 78 — Her Name (Blackie)
- 181 — My Mammy
- 342 — Song of the Stars (Blackie)
William Walkinshaw[edit]
William Wallace[edit]
Elizabeth Wardlaw[edit]
Alexander Watson[edit]
Walter Watson[edit]
Alexander Webster[edit]
David Webster[edit]
Daniel Weir[edit]
Walter Weir[edit]
C. M. Westmacott[edit]
Robert White[edit]
James T. Whitelaw[edit]
Robert Whitley[edit]
Helen Maria Williams[edit]
Wilson[edit]
Alexander Wilson[edit]
- 74 — Connel and Flora
- 179 — Auchtertool
- 180 — The Group
- 447 — Matilda
John Wilson (1785-1854)[edit]
William Wilson[edit]
William Wordsworth[edit]
X[edit]
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Y[edit]
John Hay (1645-1713)[edit]
i.e. Lord Yester
James Yool[edit]
Z[edit]
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