"Based on Professor Kinsley's Oxford English Texts edition (Clarendon Press, 1968)"

O once I lov'd -- Now westlin winds, and slaught'ring guns -- I dream'd I lay -- Behind yon hills where Lugar flows -- A penitential thought ... -- Tibby I hae seen the day -- One night as I did wander -- It was upon a Lammas night -- From thee, Eliza, I must go -- Winter, a dirge -- On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells -- To ruin -- A prayer, in the prospect of death -- Stanzas on the same occasion -- A prayer, under the pressure of violent anguish -- Though fickle fortune has deciv'd me -- O raging fortune's withering blast -- Extempore -- The first psalm -- The first six verses of the ninetieth psalm -- My father was a farmer upon the Carrick border o -- Altho' my bed were in yon muir -- John Barleycorn, a ballad -- The death and dying words of poor Mailie ... -- Poor Mailie's elegy -- Remorse -- No churchman am I for to rail and to write -- On fas grieve, laird of Boghead, Tarbolton -- On an innkeeper in Tarbolton -- In the character of a ruined farmer -- Mary Morison -- Epitaph on my own friend, and my father's friend, Wm Muir in Tarbolton Miln -- On a celebrated ruling elder -- On a noisy polemic -- On Wee Johnie -- For the author's father -- For R.A. esq. -- For G.H. esq. -- When Guilford good our pilot stood -- Address to the Unco Guid... -- The Ronalds of the Bennals -- The Tarbolton lasses -- In Mauchline there dwells six proper young belles -- O leave novels ... -- When first I came to Stewart Kyle -- Green grow the rashes -- My girl she's airy, she's buxom and gay -- Epistle to J. R. ... -- Lines addressed to Mr. John Ranken -- Verses -- Lines -- Epistle to Davie, a brother poet -- The holy Tulzie -- Holy Willie's prayer -- Epitaph on Holy Willie -- Death and Doctor Hornbook -- On Tam the chapman -- Epistle to J. L. ... -- To the same -- To W.S. ... -- A poet's welcome to his love-begotten daughter ... -- The fornicator -- The vision Duan first -- Epistle to John Goldie in Kilmarnock, arthor of, the Gospel recovered -- Man was made to mourn, a dirge -- A song on Miss P... K... -- The braes o' Ballochmyle -- Third epistle to F. Lapraik -- To the Rev. John M'Math, inclosing a copy of Holy Willie's prayer, which he had requested -- To a mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November, 1785 -- The Holy Fair -- The two dogs, a tale -- The cotter's saturday night, inscribed to R.A..., esq. -- Halloween -- The Mauchline wedding -- The auld farmer's New-year-morning salutation to his auld mare, Maggie, on giving her the accustomed ripp of corn to hansel in the New-year -- Address to the Deil -- Scotch drink -- Brose and butter -- To J. S. -- The rantin dog the daddie o't -- The author's earnest cry and prayer to the Right Honorable and Honorable, the Scotch representatives in the House of Commons -- Sketch -- To a louse, on seeing one on a lady's bonnet at church -- Love and liberty, a cantata -- The ordination -- The inventory -- To Mr. John Kennedy -- Adam A...'s prayer -- Song on Miss W.A. -- Letter to J...s T...t, Gl,,,nc...r -- To Mrs. C... -- To a mountain-daisy, on turning one down, with the plough in April 1786 -- The lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a friend's amour -- Despondency, an ode -- Jeremiah 15th ch. 10 v. -- Epitaph on a henpecked country Squire -- Epigram on said occasion -- Another -- Extempore to Mr. Gavin Hamilton -- On a Scotch bard gone to the West Indies -- Second epistle to Davie -- To Mr. Gavin Hamilton, Mauchline -- A dedication to G... H... esq. -- A bard's epitaph -- Epistle to a young friend -- Lines written on a bank-note -- Highland lassie o -- Address of Beelzebub -- Libel summons -- Epitaph on John Dove, innkeeper, Mauchline -- Epitaph on a wag in Mauchline -- On Willie Chalmers -- A dream -- To Dr. John Mackenzie -- The farewell, to the brethren of St. James's lodge, Tarbolton -- The farewell -- Tam Samson's elegy -- To John Kennedy -- Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns -- Robert Burn's answer -- The brigs of Ayr, a poem inscribed to J. B..., esq; Ayr -- Wrote on the blank leaf of a copy of my first edition, which I sent to an old sweetheart, then married -- The gloomy night is gath'ring fast -- The Northern lass -- Green grow the rashes, o -- The calf -- Nature's law -- Extempore verses on dining with Lord Daer -- The sons of old Killie -- Epistle to Captn. Willm. Logan at Park ... -- A winter night -- Extempore reply to an invitation -- Lying at a Reverend friend's house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept -- The night was still -- Rusticity's ungainly form -- Address to Edinburgh -- To a haggis -- Verses intended to be written below a noble Earl's picture -- Again rejoicing nature sees -- To Miss L... -- There was a lad -- Elegy on the death of Robert Ruisseaux -- Epitaph: here lies Robert Fergusson, poet -- On Fergusson -- Ill-fated genius, heaven-taught Fergusson -- To a painter -- To Mr. E... on his translation of and comentaries on martial -- The guidwife of Wauchope-house, to Robert Burns, the Airshire bard, Feb. 1787 -- The answer -- To Miss Isabella Macleod -- Extempore, in the court of S... -- Extempore epistle to Mr. McAdam of Craigengillan ... -- Prologue -- Epistle to Mr. Tytler of Woodhouselee, author of a defence of Mary Queen of Scots -- To Miss Ainslie, in church -- To William Creech -- To Symon Gray -- To Renton of Lamerton -- Bonie Dundee -- At Roslin Inn -- Epigram -- On the death of Sir J. Hunter Blair -- To Miss Ferrier -- On reading, in a newspaper, the death of J... M'L..., esq. ... -- Yon wild mossy mountains -- My Harry was a gallant gay -- Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron -- Lines on Stirling -- On a schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire -- Strathallan's lament -- Written with a pencil over the chimney-piece, in the parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth -- The birks of Aberfeldey, composed on the spot -- Amang the trees -- The humble petition of Bruar Water to the noble Duke of Athole -- A verse composed and repeated by Burns, to the master of the house, on taking leave at a place in the Highlands, where he had been hospitably entertained -- Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch-Ness -- Castle Gordon, intended to be sung to Morag -- The young Highland rover -- Theniel Menzies' bony Mary -- Lady Onlie -- Song composed at Auchytertyre on Miss Euphemia Murray of Lentrose -- On scaring some water-fowl in Loch-Turit, a wild scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre -- My Peggy's face -- Where braving angry winter's storms -- The banks of the Devon -- Epitaph for William Nicol -- Ca' the ewes -- On the death of the late Lord President Dundas -- Answer to Clarinda -- Answer to the foregoing expempore -- Scots ballad -- A birth-day ode, December 31st 1787 -- Hunting song -- On Johnson's opinion of Hampden -- Anna, thy charms my bosom fire -- An extemporaneous effusion on being appointed to the excise -- To the weaver's gin ye go -- I'm o'er young to marry yet -- McPherson's farewell -- Stay, my charmer, can you leave me -- What will I do gin my Hoggie die -- Jumpin John -- Up in the morning early -- Dusty Miller -- Duncan Davison -- Where Helen lies -- Duncan Gray -- The ploughman -- Hey tuti tatey -- Raving winds around her blowing -- Musing on the roaring ocean -- To daunton me -- Interpolation -- O'er the water to Charlie -- Up and warn a' Willie -- The Rosebud -- Revision for Clarinda -- And I'll kiss thee yet, yet -- Rattlin, roarin Willie -- Clarinda -- The winter it is past -- To Clarinda -- The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning -- Epitaph on R. Muir -- Epistle to Hugh Parker -- Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage on the banks of Nith... June 1788 -- Altered from the foregoing Dec. 1788 -- The fete champetre -- To Alexander Cunningham -- O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet -- I love my Jean -- O, were I on Parnassus Hill -- The banks of Nith -- To Robt Graham of Fintry Esqr, with a request for an excise division -- The seventh of November -- The blue-eyed lassie -- A mother's lament for the loss of her only son -- The lazy mist -- Whistle o'er the lave o't -- Tam Glen -- To the beautiful Miss Eliza J...n, on her principles of liberty and equality -- Sketch for an elegy -- Elegy on Capt. M... H..., a gentleman who held the patent for his hoonours immediately from Almighty God -- Auld lang syne -- Epitaph for J.H. Writer in Ayr -- My bony Mary -- Ode, sacred to the memory of Mrs. ... of ... -- Versicles on sign-posts -- To Mr. John Taylor -- A sonnet upon sonnets -- The cares o' love -- Louis what reck I by thee -- Sketch, New Year's Day, to Mrs. Dunlop -- Elegy on the year 1788 -- Robin shure in hairst -- Come rede me, dame -- Caledonia -- At Whigham's Inn, Sanquar -- To William Stewart -- Lines written in the Kirk of Lamington -- Afton water -- Ode to the departed Regency bill 1789 -- On seeing a wounded hare limp by me, which a fellow had just shot at --

A new psalm for the Chapel of Kilmarnock, in the thanksgiving-day for his Majesty's recovery -- To Mr. McMurdo, with a pound of Lundiefoot snuff -- Sketch, inscribed to the Rt. Hon. Ch. J. Fox, esq. -- To Peter Stuart -- The Kirk of Scotland's garland, a new song -- To Mr. Graham of Fintry, on being appointed to my excise divisin -- A grace before dinner, extempore -- Grace after meat -- Willie brew's a peck o' maut -- The five Carlins, a ballad, tue, Chevy chase -- The laddies by the banks o' Nith -- To Miss C..., a very young lady -- The Whistle, a ballad -- Answer to an invitation -- From Dr. Blacklock -- To Dr. Blacklock -- Thou lingering star with lessening ray -- On the late Captain Grose's peregrinations thro' Scotland, collecting the antiquities of the kingdom -- Written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns -- I'll tell you a tale of a wife -- No song nor dance I bring from yon great city -- Nithsdale's welcome hame -- Green sleeves -- Tos Alexander Findlater -- To a gentleman who had sent him a news-paper, and offered to continue it free of expense -- Elegy on Peg Nicholson -- I love my love in secret -- Tibbie Dunbar -- The taylor fell thro' the bed -- Ay waukin o -- Beware o' bonie Ann -- My wife's a wanton, wee thing -- Lassie lie near me -- The gardener wi' his paidle or, the gardener's march -- On a bank of flowers -- My love she's but a lassie yet -- Cauld frosty morning -- Jamie come try me -- The Captain's lady -- Johnie Cope -- O dear Minny, what shall I do -- Carl and the king come -- There's a youth in this city -- My heart's in the Highlands -- John Anderson my Jo -- Awa whigs awa -- I'll mak you be fain to follow me -- Merry hae I been teethin a heckle -- The white cockade -- My Eppie -- The battle of Sherra-moor -- Sandy and Jockie -- Young Jockey was the blythest lad -- A waukrife Minnie -- Tho' women's minds, like winter winds -- Killiecrankie -- The Campbells are comin -- Scots prologue, for Mrs. Sutherland's benefit night, spoken at the Theatre Dumfries -- Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the approach of spring -- Sensibility how charming -- Epistle to Robt. Graham, Esq: of Fintry on the election for the Dumfries string of Boroughs, Anno 1790 -- On the birth of a posthumous child, born in peculiar circumstances of family-distress -- Yestreen I had a pint o' wine -- Tam o' Shanter, a tale -- Ken ye ought o' Captain Grose -- Epigram on Capt. Francis Grose, the celebrated antiquary -- A fragment, which was meant for the beginning of an elegy on the late Miss Burnet of Monboddo -- To Terraughty, on his birth-day -- There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame -- I look to the North -- The banks o' Doon A -- The banks o' Doon, B -- On Mr. James Gracie -- Orananaoig, or, the song of death -- Address, to the shade of Thomson, on crowning his bust, at Ednam, Roxburgh-shire, with bays -- Extempore on some commemorations of Thomson -- Lovely Davies -- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn -- Lines, sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart. with the foregoing poem -- To R.. G.. of F..., Esq. -- Gloomy December -- Ae fond kiss, and then we sever -- There was twa wives -- O saw ye bonie Lesley -- Craigieburn-wood, a song -- Frae the friends and land I love -- Hughie Graham -- John come kiss me now -- Cock up your beaver -- My Tochers the jewel -- Then guidwife count the lawin -- What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man -- The bonie lad that's far awa -- I do confess thou are sae fair -- Galloway Tam -- As I cam down by youn castle wa' -- Lord Ronald my son -- Bonie laddie, Highland laddie -- It is na, Jean, thy bonie face -- Eppie McNab -- Wha is that at my bower door -- The bonny wee thing -- Geordie, an old ballad -- As I was a wand'ring -- The weary pund o' tow -- I hae a wife o' my ain -- When she cam ben she bobbed -- O, for ane and twenty tam -- O Kenmure's on and awa, Willie -- Bessy and her spinning wheel -- My collier laddie -- The shepherd's wife -- Johnie Blunt -- Country lassie -- Fair Eliza -- Ye Jacobites by name -- The posie -- Sic a wife as Willie's wife -- My bonie laddie's young but he's growin yet -- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation -- Kellyburnbraes -- Jockey fou and Jenny fain -- The slave's lament -- Bonie Bell -- The gallant weaver -- Hey Ca' thro' -- Can ye labor lea -- The deuks dang o'er my daddie -- As I went out ae May morning -- She's fair and fause -- The de'il's awa wi' th' exciseman -- Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary -- My wife's a winsome wee thing -- Hightland Mary -- The rights of woman, spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night -- Here's a health to them that's awa -- The lea-rig -- Auld Rob Morris -- Duncan Gray -- Why should na poor folk mowe -- Here awa', there awa' -- Galla water -- O poortith cauld, and restless love -- Lord Gregory -- Sonnet on hearing a thrush sing on a morning walk in January -- Address to General Dumourier -- A toast -- Open the door to me, oh -- Jessie, a new Scots song -- Farewell, thou stream that winding flows -- When wild war's deadly blast was blawn -- O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten -- Ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten -- Blythe hae I been on yon hell -- O, Logan, sweetly didst thou glide -- On being asked why God had made Miss D... so little and Mrs. A... so big -- On Maxwell of Cardoness -- Extempore on being shown a beautiful country seat belonging to the same -- Annotations in verse -- O were my love yon Lilack fair -- A ballad -- Epigrams on Lord Galloway -- On the death of Echo, a lap-dog -- On J.hn M.r.ne, laird of L.gg.n -- Phillis the fair -- Had I a cave on some wild, distant shore -- O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad -- Adown winding Nith I did wander -- Allan water -- Come, let me take thee to my breast -- Dainty Davie -- Robert Bruce's march to Bannockburn -- To Maria -- Down the burn Davie -- Passion's cry -- The primrose -- Thou hast left me ever -- Behold the hour, the boat arrive -- Fair Jenny -- On Capt. W... R.dd.ck of C.rb.ton -- Bonie Mary -- Act sederunt of the session, a Scots ballad -- To Capt. G..., on being asked why I was not to be of the party with him and his brother K.nm.re at Syme's -- Impromptu, on Mrs. W. Riddell's birthday, 4th Novr. 1793 -- Occasional address, spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit-night, Decr. 4th, 1793m written by Mr. Burns -- On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character -- English song -- To Miss Graham of Fintray -- Monody on Maria -- Wilt thou be my dearie -- Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glen Riddel, April 1794 -- On Robert Riddel -- Banks of Cree -- Pinned to Mrs. R...'s carriage -- In answer to one who affirmed of a well-known character here, Dr. B..., that there was falsehood in his very looks -- Extempore on the loyal natives' verses -- Ode for General Washington's birthday -- On W. R..., Esq. -- A red red Rose -- On the seas and far away -- To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery -- Ca' the yowes to the knowes -- She says she lo'es me besst of a' -- Saw ye my Phely -- How lang and dreary is the night -- Let not woman e'er complain -- The auld man's winter thought -- The lovers morning salute to his mistress -- On seeing Mrs. Kemble in Yarico -- To the Honble Mr. R. M..., of P.mn.re, on his high phaeton -- Song, altered from an old English one -- Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks -- To Chloris -- O Philly, happy be that day -- Can you leave me thus, my Katy -- Scotish song -- Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair -- My Nanie's awa -- Dumfries epigrams -- On Chloris requesting me to give her a spray of a sloe-thorn in full blossom -- Ode to Spring -- Song for a' that and a' that -- Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn -- The Dumfries volunteers -- Let me in this ae night -- Epistle from Esopus to Maria -- On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr -- O wat ye wha's in yon town -- On Chloris being ill -- Elegy on Mr. William Cruikshank A.M. -- The heron ballads, 1795 -- The election: a new song -- Johnie B...'s lament -- Buy Braw Troggin, an excellent new song -- Address to the woodlark -- Their groves o' sweet myrtle let foreign lands reckon -- 'Twas na her bonie blue e''e was my ruin -- Altered from an old English song -- Mark yonder pomp of costly fashion -- Address to the tooth-ache -- English song -- Scotch song -- Scotish ballad -- Why, why tell thy lover -- Poetical inscription, for an altar to independence at Kerrouchtry, the seat of Mr. Heron, written in Summer 1795 -- To Chloris -- O this is no my ain lassie -- O bonie was yon rosy brier -- O wat ye wha that lo'es me -- To John Syme -- On Mr. Pit's hair-powder tax -- The solemn league and covenant -- The Bob o' Dumblane -- Friend o' the poet, tried and leal -- The Dean of faculty, a new ballad -- Hey for a lass wi' a tocher -- Poem on life -- Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear -- On Jessy Lewars -- To a young lady, Miss Jessy L..., Dumfries; with books which the Bard presented her --

Oh wert thou in the cauld blast -- Fairest maid on Devon banks -- To Mr. S. McKenzie -- On Glenriddel's fox breaking his chain -- To Captain Riddell -- Reply to Robert Riddell -- Grim Grizzle -- Burns grace at Kirkudbright -- Graces at the Globe Tavern -- Lines written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries -- Lines written on a window, at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries -- You're welcome, Willie Stewart -- At Brownhill Inn -- On W... Gr.h.m Esq: of M.sskn.w -- Epitaph on Mr. Burton -- Epitaph on D... C... -- Epitaph extempore, on a pereson nicknamed the Marquis, who desired Burns to write one on him -- Epitaph on J.hn B.shby -- On Capt. L..lles -- On John M'Murdo -- On Gabriel Richardson -- On commissary Goldie's brains -- The hue and cry of John Lewars -- The keekin' glass -- Inscription on a goblet -- On Andrew Turner -- The toadeater -- The lovely lass o' Inverness -- As I stood by yon roofless tower -- The wren's nest -- O an ye were dead gudeman -- Tam Lin -- Had I the wyte she bade me -- Comin thro' the rye -- The rowin 't in her apron -- Charlie he's my darling -- The lass of Ecclefechan -- We'll hide the couper behint the door -- Leezie Lindsay -- For the sake o' somebody -- The cardin o't -- Sutors o' Selkirk -- Tibbie Fowler -- There's three true gude fellows -- The bonie lass made the bed to me -- Sae far awa -- The reel o' Stumpie -- I'll ay ca' in by yon town -- The rantin laddie -- O May thy morn -- As I cam o'er the Cairney mount -- Highland laddie -- Lovely Polly Stewart -- The highland balou -- Bannocks o' bear-meal -- Wae is my heart -- Here's his health in water -- Gude Wallace -- The auld man's mare's dead -- The Taylor -- There grows a bonie brier-bush -- Here's to thy health my bonie lass -- It was a' for our rightfu' king -- The Highland widow's lament -- O steer her up and had her gaun -- Wee Willie Gray -- Gudeen to you kimmer -- O ay my wife she dang me -- Scroggam -- O gude ale comes -- My lady's gown there's gairs upon 't -- Sweetest May -- Jockey's ta'en the parting kiss -- O lay thy loof in mine lass -- Cauld is the e'enin blast -- There was a bonie lass -- There's news lasses news -- O that I had ne'er been married -- The German lairdie -- Epitaph for H... L..., Esq., of L... -- While prose-work and rhymes -- Muirland Meg -- The patriarch -- The trogger -- Godly Girzie -- The jolly gauger -- Wha'll m.w me now -- O saw ye my Maggie -- Gie the lass her fairin' -- The book-worms -- On marriage -- Here's, a bottle and an honest friend -- Her flowing locks, the raven's wing -- A tale -- The henpeck'd husband -- On a dog of Lord Eglintons -- Lo worms enjoy the seat of bliss -- Delia -- The tree of liberty -- Broom Besoms, A -- Broom besoms, B -- Now health forsakes that angel face -- Epigram on rough roads -- On the Duchess of Gordon's reel dancing -- To the memory of the unfortunate Miss Burns 1791 -- Bonnie Peg --