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The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham cover

The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. / With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham

Chapter 32: SONGS AND BALLADS.
By Robert Burns
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A collected edition assembles lyrical poems, songs, epistles, and letters together with a biographical life and critical notices, preserving many pieces in the original Scottish dialect and original order. Material ranges from brief songs, epitaphs, and pastoral sketches to longer narrative poems and occasional cantatas, accompanied by editorial prefaces, dedications, and textual notes. Appendices include a glossary, tours, and discussions of attribution and publication history to contextualize the poet’s works.

SONGS AND BALLADS.

Handsome Nell 207
Luckless Fortune 208
“I dream’d I lay where flowers were springing” 208
Tibbie, I hae seen the day 208
“My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border” 209
John Barleycorn. A Ballad 210
The Rigs o’ Barley 210
Montgomery’s Peggy 211
The Mauchline Lady 211
The Highland Lassie 211
Peggy 212
The rantin’ Dog the Daddie o’t 213
“My heart was ance as blithe and free” 213
My Nannie O 213
A Fragment. “One night as I did wander” 214
Bonnie Peggy Alison 214
Green grow the Rashes, O 214
My Jean 215
Robin 215
“Her flowing locks, the raven’s wing” 216
“O leave novels, ye Mauchline belles” 216
Young Peggy 216
The Cure for all Care 217
Eliza 217
The Sons of Old Killie 217
And maun I still on Menie doat 218
The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton 218
On Cessnock Banks 219
Mary 220
The Lass of Ballochmyle 220
“The gloomy night is gathering fast” 221
“O whar did ye get that hauver meal bannock?” 221
The Joyful Widower 221
“O Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad” 222
“I am my mammy’s ae bairn” 222
The Birks of Aberfeldy 222
Macpherson’s Farewell 223
Braw, braw Lads of Galla Water 223
“Stay, my charmer, can you leave me?” 224
Strathallan’s Lament 224
My Hoggie 224
Her Daddie forbad, her Minnie forbad 224
Up in the Morning early 225
The young Highland Rover 225
Hey the dusty Miller 225
Duncan Davison 226
Theniel Menzies’ bonnie Mary 226
The Banks of the Devon 226
Weary fa’ you, Duncan Gray 227
The Ploughman 227
Landlady, count the Lawin 228
“Raving winds around her blowing” 228
“How long and dreary is the night” 228
Musing on the roaring Ocean 229
Blithe, blithe and merry was she 229
The blude red rose at Yule may blaw 229
O’er the Water to Charlie 230
A Rose-bud by my early walk 230
Rattlin’, roarin’ Willie 230
Where braving angry Winter’s Storms 231
Tibbie Dunbar 231
Bonnie Castle Gordon 231
My Harry was a gallant gay 232
The Tailor fell through the bed, thimbles an’ a’ 232
Ay Waukin O! 232
Beware o’ Bonnie Ann 233
The Gardener wi’ his paidle 233
Blooming Nelly 233
The day returns, my bosom burns 234
My Love she’s but a lassie yet 234
Jamie, come try me 234
Go fetch to me a Pint O’ Wine 235
The Lazy Mist 235
O mount and go 235
Of a’ the airts the wind can blaw 235
Whistle o’er the lave o’t 236
O were I on Parnassus’ Hill 236
“There’s a youth in this city” 237
My heart’s in the Highlands 237
John Anderson, my Jo 237
Awa, Whigs, awa 238
Ca’ the Ewes to the Knowes 238
Merry hae I been teethin’ a heckle 239
The Braes of Ballochmyle 239
To Mary in Heaven 239
Eppie Adair 240
The Battle of Sherriff-muir 240
Young Jockey was the blithest lad 241
O Willie brewed a peck o’ maut 241
The braes o’ Killiecrankie, O 241
I gaed a waefu’ gate yestreen 242
The Banks of Nith 242
Tam Glen 242
Frae the friends and land I love 243
Craigie-burn Wood 243
Cock up your Beaver 244
O meikle thinks my luve o’ my beauty 244
Gudewife, count the Lawin 244
There’ll never be peace till Jamie comes hame 245
The bonnie lad that’s far awa 245
I do confess thou art sae fair 245
Yon wild mossy mountains sae lofty and wide 246
It is na, Jean, thy bonnie face 246
When I think on the happy days 247
Whan I sleep I dream 247
“I murder hate by field or flood” 247
O gude ale comes and gude ale goes 247
Robin shure in hairst 248
Bonnie Peg 248
Gudeen to you, Kimmer 248
Ah, Chloris, since it may na be 249
Eppie M’Nab 249
Wha is that at my bower-door 249
What can a young lassie do wi’ an auld man 250
Bonnie wee thing, cannie wee thing 250
The tither morn when I forlorn 250
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever 251
Lovely Davies 251
The weary Pond o’ Tow 252
Naebody 252
An O for ane and twenty, Tam 252
O Kenmure’s on and awa, Willie 253
The Collier Laddie 253
Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame 254
As I was a-wand’ring ae Midsummer e’enin 254
Bessy and her Spinning-wheel 254
The Posie 255
The Country Lass 255
Turn again, thou fair Eliza 256
Ye Jacobites by name 256
Ye flowery banks o’bonnie Doon 257
Ye banks and braes o’ bonnie Doon 257
Willie Wastle 257
O Lady Mary Ann 258
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation 258
The Carle of Kellyburn braes 259
Jockey’s ta’en the parting kiss 260
Lady Onlie 260
The Chevalier’s Lament 260
Song of Death 261
Flow gently, sweet Afton 261
Bonnie Bell 262
Hey ca’ thro’, ca’ thro’ 262
The Gallant weaver 262
The deuks dang o’er my Daddie 262
She’s fair and fause 263
The Deil cam’ fiddling thro’ the town 263
The lovely Lass of Inverness 263
O my luve’s like a red, red rose 264
Louis, what reck I by thee 264
Had I the wyte she bade me 264
Coming through the rye 265
Young Jamie, pride of a’ the plain 265
Out over the Forth I look to the north 265
The Lass of Ecclefechan 265
The Cooper o’ Cuddie 266
For the sake of somebody 266
I coft a stane o’ haslock woo 266
The lass that made the bed for me 267
Sae far awa 267
I’ll ay ca’ in by yon town 268
O wat ye wha’s in yon town 268
O May, thy morn 269
Lovely Polly Stewart 269
Bonnie laddie, Highland laddie 269
Anna, thy charms my bosom fire 270
Cassilis’ Banks 270
To thee, lov’d Nith 270
Bannocks o’ Barley 270
Hee Balou! my sweet wee Donald 270
Wae is my heart, and the tear’s in my e’e 271
Here’s his health in water 271
My Peggy’s face, my Peggy’s form 271
Gloomy December 272
My lady’s gown, there’s gairs upon ’t 272
Amang the trees, where humming bees 272
The gowden locks of Anna 273
My ain kind dearie, O 273
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary 273
She is a winsome wee thing 274
Bonny Leslie 274
Highland Mary 275
Auld Rob Morris 275
Duncan Gray 276
O poortith cauld, and restless love 276
Galla Water 277
Lord Gregory 277
Mary Morison 277
Wandering Willie. First Version 278
Wandering Willie. Last Version 278
Oh, open the door to me, oh! 279
Jessie 279
The poor and honest sodger 279
Meg o’ the Mill 280
Blithe hae I been on yon hill 281
Logan Water 281
“O were my love yon lilac fair” 281
Bonnie Jean 282
Phillis the fair 283
Had I a cave on some wild distant shore 283
By Allan stream 283
O Whistle, and I’ll come to you, my lad 284
Adown windng Nith I did wander 284
Come, let me take thee to my breast 285
Daintie Davie 285
Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled. First Version 285
Scots wha hae wi’ Wallace bled. Second Version 286
Behold the hour, the boat arrives 287
Thou hast left me ever, Jamie 287
Auld lang syne 287
“Where are the joys I have met in the morning” 288
“Deluded swain, the pleasure” 288
Nancy 288
Husband, husband, cease your strife 289
Wilt thou be my dearie? 289
But lately seen in gladsome green 290
“Could aught of song declare my pains” 290
Here’s to thy health, my bonnie lass 290
It was a’ for our rightfu’ king 291
O steer her up and haud her gaun 291
O ay my wife she dang me 291
O wert thou in the cauld blast 292
The Banks of Cree 292
On the seas and far away 292
Ca’ the Yowes to the Knowes 293
Sae flaxen were her ringlets 293
O saw ye my dear, my Phely? 294
How lang and dreary is the night 294
Let not woman e’er complain 294
The Lover’s Morning Salute to his Mistress 295
My Chloris, mark how green the groves 295
Youthful Chloe, charming Chloe 296
Lassie wi’ the lint-white locks 296
Farewell, thou stream, that winding flows 296
O Philly, happy be the day 297
Contented wi’ little and cantie wi’ mair 297
Canst thou leave me thus, my Katy 298
My Nannie’s awa 298
O wha is she that lo’es me 299
Caledonia 299
O lay thy loof in mine, lass 300
The Fête Champêtre 300
Here’s a health to them that’s awa 301
For a’ that, and a’ that 301
Craigieburn Wood 302
O lassie, art thou sleeping yet 302
O tell na me o’ wind and rain 303
The Dumfries Volunteers 303
Address to the Wood-lark 304
On Chloris being ill 304
Their groves o’ sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon 304
’Twas na her bonnie blue een was my ruin 305
How cruel are the parents 305
Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion 305
O this is no my ain lassie 306
Now Spring has clad the grove in green 306
O bonnie was yon rosy brier 307
Forlorn my love, no comfort near 307
Last May a braw wooer cam down the lang glen 307
Chloris 308
The Highland Widow’s Lament 308
To General Dumourier 309
Peg-a-Ramsey 309
There was a bonnie lass 309
O Mally’s meek, Mally’s sweet 309
Hey for a lass wi’ a tocher 310
Jessy. “Here’s a health to ane I lo’e dear” 310
Fairest Maid on Devon banks 311