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Critical Analysis of Famous Poems by Robert Burns

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  • 148. To Miss Logan, With Beattie's Poems
  • 152. Extempore In The Court Of Session
  • 233. Song—O were I on Parnassus Hill
  • 314. Song—there'Ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
  • 320. Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart
  • 329. Verses on the destruction of the Woods near Drumlanrig
  • 357. A Grace Before Dinner
  • 379. Song—fragment—love For Love
  • 381. Song—Fragment—No cold approach
  • 491. Song—Lassie wi' the Lint-white Locks
  • 516. Song—I'll aye ca' in by yon town
  • 523. Song—The Cooper o' Cuddy
  • 89. The Ordination
  • A Bard's Epitaph
  • A Bottle And Friend
  • A Dedication
  • A Dream
  • A Fiddler In The North
  • A Fond Kiss
  • A Grace After Dinner
  • A Grace After Dinner
  • A Grace After Meat
  • A Man's A Man For A' That
  • A Mother's Lament For Her Son's Death
  • A Poets's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
  • A Prayer In The Prospect Of Death
  • A Prayer Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
  • A Red, Red Rose
  • A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
  • A Tippling Ballad—when Princes And Prelates, Etc.
  • A Vision
  • A Winter Night
  • Address Spoken By Miss Fontenelle
  • Address To A Haggis
  • Address To Beelzebub
  • Address To The Devil
  • Address To The Tooth-Ache
  • Address To The Unco Guid
  • Address To The Unco Guid
  • Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
  • Address Tothe Devil
  • Ae Fond Kiss
  • Afton Water
  • Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
  • Airlin's Fine Braes
  • Anna, Thy Charms
  • Another On The Said Occasion
  • Apology To Mr. Syme For Not Dining With Him
  • Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning
  • Auld Lang Syne
  • Ballad On Mr. Heron's Election—no. 1
  • Ballad On Mr. Heron's Election—no. 2
  • Ballad On Mr. Heron's Election—no. 3
  • Ballad On Mr. Heron's Election—no. 4
  • Ballad On The American War
  • Banks O' Doon, The
  • Battle Of Sherramuir, The
  • Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
  • Birks Of Aberfeldie, The
  • Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787
  • Bonie Doon
  • Bonie Jean: A Ballad
  • Bonie Lesley
  • Bonie Peggy Alison
  • Bonie Wee Thing, The
  • Bonnie Lesley
  • Burlesque Lament Fo Wm. Creech's Absence
  • Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
  • Caledonia: A Ballad
  • Carigieburn Wood
  • Coming Through The Rye
  • Commemoration Of Rodney's Victory
  • Complimentary Epigram To Mrs. Riddell
  • Cotter's Saturday Night, The
  • Craigieburn Wood
  • Death And Dr. Hornbook
  • Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The
  • Despondency -- An Ode
  • Duncan Gray
  • Election Ballad At Close Of Contest For Representing The Dumfries Burghs, 1790
  • Election Ballad For Westerha'
  • Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
  • Elegy On Stella
  • Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
  • Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
  • Elegy On The Year 1788
  • Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare
  • Epigram Addressed To An Artist
  • Epigram On A Country Laird (Cardoness)
  • Epigram On A Suicide
  • Epigram On A Swearing Coxcomb
  • Epigram On An Innkeeper (&Quot;The Marquis&Quot;)
  • Epigram On Andrew Turner
  • Epigram On Dr. Babington's Looks
  • Epigram On Miss Davies
  • Epigram On Miss Fontenelle
  • Epigram On Politics
  • Epigram On Rough Roads
  • Epigram On The Said Occasion
  • Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church
  • Epigram To Miss Jean Scott
  • Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway
  • Epigram—Divine Service at Lamington
  • Epigram—thanks For A National Victory
  • Epigram—the Raptures Of Folly
  • Epigram—the Toad-Eater
  • Epigram—the True Loyal Natives
  • Epistle From Esopus To Maria
  • Epistle On J. Lapraik
  • Epistle To A Young Friend
  • Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
  • Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
  • Epistle To Hugh Parker
  • Epistle To J. Lapraik (Excerpt)
  • 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 Of Wauchope House
  • Epistle To The Rev. John M'Math
  • Epistle To William Simson
  • Epitaph For James Smith
  • Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer
  • Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruickshank
  • Epitaph For Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster
  • Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.
  • Epitaph For William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
  • Epitaph On &Quot;Wee Johnnie&Quot;
  • Epitaph On A Henpecked Squire
  • Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
  • Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
  • Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb
  • Epitaph On Holy Willie
  • Epitaph On James Grieve
  • Epitaph On John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
  • Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
  • Epitaph On John Rankine
  • Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father
  • Epitaph On The Same
  • Epitaph On William Hood, Senior
  • Epitaph On William Muir
  • Extempore Reply To An Invitation
  • Fareweel To A'Our Scottish Fame
  • Farewell To Eliza
  • Farewell To The Banks Of Ayr
  • Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
  • First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The
  • For A' That
  • For A' That And A' That
  • Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Here
  • Frae The Friends And Land I Love
  • Fragment Of Song—&Quot;My Jean!&Quot;
  • Fragment Of Song—the Night Was Still
  • Fragment—altho' He Has Left Me
  • Fragment—her Flwoing Locks
  • Fragment—wee Willie Gray
  • From Lines To William Simson
  • Go Fetch To Me A Pint
  • Go On, Sweet Bird, And Soothe My Care
  • Grace Before And After Meat
  • Green Grow The Rashes
  • Halloween
  • Handsome Nell
  • Hark! The Mavis
  • Here's A Bottle
  • Here's A Health To Them That's Awa
  • Here's His Health In Water
  • Here's To Thy Health
  • Here's To Thy Health, My Bonie Lass
  • Hey, The Dusty Miller
  • Highland Mary
  • Holy Fair, The
  • Holy Willie's Prayer
  • How Cruel Are The Parents
  • I Dream'D I Lay
  • I Love My Love In Secret
  • I Murder Hate
  • I'Ll Go And Be A Sodger
  • Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
  • Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
  • Impromptu On Dumourier's Desertion Of The French Republican Army
  • Impromptu On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday
  • In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
  • Inconstancy In Love
  • Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More's
  • Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage
  • Inscription For An Alter Of Independence
  • Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet
  • Inscription On Mr. Syme's Crystal Goblet
  • Inscription To Chloris
  • Inscription To Jessie Lewars
  • It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
  • It Was A' For Our Rightful King
  • Jamie, Come Try Me
  • Jean
  • John Anderson My Jo
  • John Barleycorn: A Ballad
  • Lament For Culloden
  • Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
  • Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots
  • Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
  • Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The
  • Lass That Made The Bed To Me, The
  • Last May A Braw Wooer
  • Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanack
  • Lines Inscribed Under Fergusson's Portrait
  • Lines Inscribed Under Fergusson's Portrait
  • Lines Of John M'Murdo, Esq.
  • Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer
  • Lines On The Author's Death
  • Lines On The Fall Of Fyers
  • Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch Ness
  • Lines To An Old Sweetheart
  • Lines To John M'Murdo Of Drumlanrig
  • Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
  • Lines Written On A Bank-Note
  • Lines Written Under The Picture Of Miss Burns
  • Lord Gregory: A Ballad
  • Love In The Guise Of Friendship
  • Lovely Polly Stewart
  • Lovely Young Jessie
  • M'Pherson's Rant
  • Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
  • Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
  • Mary Morison
  • Masonic Song—ye Sons Of Old Killie
  • Monody On A Lady, Famed For Her Caprice
  • Montgomerie's Peggy
  • Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch
  • Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch
  • My Bonie Bell
  • My Bonnie Mary
  • My Eppie Macnab
  • My Father Was A Farmer: A Ballad
  • My Girl She's Airy: A Fragment
  • My Heart's In The Highlands
  • My Highland Lassie, O
  • My Highland Lassie, O
  • My Last Farewell To Stirling
  • My Lord A-Hunting He Is Gane
  • My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
  • My Nannie, O
  • My Spouse Nancy
  • Nature's Law: A Poem
  • News, Lassies, News
  • No Churchman Am I
  • Now Spring Has Clad The Grove In Green
  • Ny Nannie, O
  • O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
  • O Leave Novels!
  • O Thou Dread Power
  • O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
  • O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
  • O, Were My Love
  • Ode For General Washington's Birthday
  • Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
  • Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
  • Of A' The Airts
  • Oh Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
  • On A Bank Of Flowers
  • On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
  • On Chloris Being Ill
  • On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams
  • On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain
  • On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
  • On Tam The Chapman
  • On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
  • On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston
  • On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations
  • On The Seas And Far Away
  • One Night As I Did Wander
  • Open The Door To Me, Oh
  • Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
  • Pegasus At Wanlockhead
  • Peggy
  • Ploughman's Life, The
  • Poem On Pastoral Poetry
  • Poem On Sensibility
  • Poor Mailie's Elegy
  • Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
  • Prayer—o Thou Dread Power
  • Prologue, Spoken By Mr. Woods At Edinburgh
  • Rantin, Rovin Robin
  • Remorse: A Fragment
  • Remorseful Apology
  • Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine
  • Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
  • Rigs O' Barley, The
  • Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
  • Ronalds Of The Bennals, The
  • Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment
  • Saw You My Dear, My Philly
  • Scotch Drink
  • Scots Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
  • Scots Wha Hae
  • Scots, Wha Hae Wi' Wallace Bled
  • Scroggam, My Dearie
  • Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
  • Second Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
  • She's Fair And Fause
  • Sketch In Verse, Inscribed To The Right Hon. C. J. Fox
  • Sketch—new Year's Day, 1790
  • Song—&Quot;Indeed Will I,&Quot; Quo' Findlay
  • Song—a Health To Ane I Loe Dear
  • Song—anna, Thy Charms
  • Song—behold The Hour, Etc. (Second Version)
  • Song—behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
  • Song—beware O' Bonie Ann
  • Song—blythe Hae I Been On Yon Hill
  • Song—bonie Dundee: A Fragment
  • Song—bonie Peggy Alison
  • Song—braving Angry Winer's Storms
  • Song—braw Lads O' Gala Water
  • Song—by Allan Stream
  • Song—carle, An' The King Come
  • Song—charlie, He's My Darling
  • Song—clarina, Mistress Of My Soul
  • Song—composed In August
  • Song—Composed in Spring
  • Song—crowdie Ever Mair
  • Song—down The Burn, Davie Love
  • Song—fairest Maid On Devon's Banks
  • Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows
  • Song—farewell To The Highlands
  • Song—fragment—damon And Sylvia
  • Song—fragment—johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
  • Song—fragment—leezie Lindsay
  • Song—fragment—there Was A Bonie Lass
  • Song—fragment—why Tell The Lover
  • Song—gudewife, Count The Lawin
  • Song—guid Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
  • Song—had I A Cave
  • Song—highland Harry Back Again
  • Song—i Hae A Wife O' My Ain
  • Song—i Hae Been At Crookieden
  • Song—i'Ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
  • Song—i'M O'Er Young To Marry Yet
  • Song—in The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
  • Song—it Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
  • Song—kellyburn Braes
  • Song—kenmure's On And Awa, Willie
  • Song—kissing My Katie
  • Song—lady Mary Ann
  • Song—lady Onlie, Honest Luckie
  • Song—m'Pherson's Farewell
  • Song—mary Morison
  • Song—montgomerie's Peggy
  • Song—my Collier Laddie
  • Song—my Hoggie
  • Song—my Nanie's Awa
  • Song—my Nanie, O!
  • Song—my Native Land Sae Far Awa
  • Song—my Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing
  • Song—o May, Thy Morn
  • Song—o Were My Love You Lilac Fair
  • Song—of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw
  • Song—on A Bank Of Flowers
  • Song—out Over The Forth
  • Song—phillis The Fair
  • Song—poortith Cauld And Restless Love
  • Song—raging Fortune: A Fragment
  • Song—sic A Wife As Willie Had
  • Song—stay My Charmer
  • Song—such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
  • Song—talk Of Him That's Far Awa
  • Song—tam Glen
  • Song—the Banks O' Doon (First Version)
  • Song—the Battle Of Sherramuir
  • Song—the Bonie Moor-Hen
  • Song—the Bonie Wee Thing
  • Song—the Braes O' Killiecrankie
  • Song—the Captive Ribband
  • Song—the Charms Of Lovely Davies
  • Song—the Dumfries Volunteers
  • Song—the Gallant Weaver
  • Song—the Highland Balou
  • Song—the Lass Of Cessnock Banks
  • Song—the Rigs O' Barley
  • Song—the Winter It Is Past
  • Song—the Winter Of Life
  • Song—the Young Highland Rover
  • Song—to Daunton Me
  • Song—wandering Willie (Revised Version)
  • Song—whistle And I'Ll Come To You
  • Song—will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
  • Song—yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
  • Sonnet On The Author's Birthday
  • Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
  • Sonnet To R. Graham, Esq., On Receiving A Favour
  • Stanzas On Naething
  • Stanzas, On The Same Occasion
  • Suppressed Stanzas Of &Quot;The Vision&Quot;
  • Sweet Afton
  • Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
  • Sylvander To Clarinda
  • Tam Glen
  • Tam O' Shanter
  • Tam Samson's Elegy
  • Tarbolton Lasses, The
  • Tear-Drop, The
  • The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare , Maggie
  • The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer
  • The Banks O' Doon
  • The Banks Of The Devon
  • The Bard At Inverary
  • The Battle Of Sherramuir
  • The Belles Of Mauchline
  • The Birks Of Aberfeldy
  • The Bold Princess Royal
  • The Bonie Lass Of Albany
  • The Bonie Wee Thing
  • The Bookworms
  • The Brigs Of Ayr
  • The Calf
  • The Captain's Lady
  • The Charming Month Of May
  • The Cotter's Saturday Night
  • The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad
  • The Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie
  • The Epitaph On Captain Matthew Henderson
  • The Fall Of The Leaf
  • The Farewell
  • The Farewell To The Brethren Of St. James's Lodge, Tarbolton
  • The Fête Champêtre
  • The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
  • The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
  • The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
  • The Gardener Wi' His Paidle
  • The Gloomy Night Is Gath'Ring Fast
  • The Gowden Locks Of Anna
  • The Hairst O' Rettie
  • The Henpecked Husband
  • The Holy Fair
  • The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
  • The Inventory
  • The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
  • The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm: A Ballad
  • The Laddie's Dear Sel'
  • The Lament
  • The Lass Of Cessnock Banks
  • The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
  • The Libeller's Self-Reproof
  • The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress
  • The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
  • The Muckin' O' Geordie's Byre
  • The Ploughman's Life
  • The Poet's Progress
  • The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O'T
  • The Rights Of Women—spoken By Miss Fontenelle
  • The Rigs O' Barley
  • The Ronalds Of The Bennals
  • The Slave’s Lament
  • The Soldier's Return: A Ballad
  • The Solemn League And Covenant
  • The Song Of Death
  • The Tarbolton Lasses
  • The Tear-Drop
  • The Twa Dogs
  • The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
  • The Vision
  • The Whistle: A Ballad
  • The Winter It Is Past
  • The Wounded Hare
  • The Wounded Hare
  • Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
  • Thou Gloomy December
  • Thou Lingering Star
  • Tibbie Dunbar
  • To A Kiss
  • To A Louse
  • To A Mountain Daisy
  • To A Mouse
  • To Alex. Cunningham, Esq., Writer, Edinburgh
  • To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, Recommending A Boy
  • To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
  • To Mary In Heaven
  • To Miss Ferrier, Enclosing Elegy On Sir J. H. Blair
  • To Miss Jessie Lewars
  • To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
  • To Ruin
  • To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J——n, On Her Principles Of Liberty And Eqality
  • To The Wood-Lark
  • Tragic Fragment
  • Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
  • Up In The Morning Early
  • Verses Inscribed Under A Noble Earl's Picture
  • Verses On A Parting Kiss
  • Verses On Captain Grose
  • Verses On Castle Gordon
  • Verses To Clarinda
  • Verses To Collector Mitchell
  • Verses Written With A Pencil At The Inn At Kenmore
  • Versicles On Sign-Posts
  • Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
  • Versified Reply To An Invitation
  • Wee Willie Gray
  • Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
  • What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man?
  • Where Are The Joys I Have Met
  • Whistle Ow'R The Lave O'T
  • Willie Brew'D A Peck O' Maut
  • Willie Wastle
  • Winter: A Dirge
  • Written By Somebody On The Window Of An Inn At Stirling
  • Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage (Second Version)
  • Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon
  • Ye Flowery Banks
  • Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)
  • Ye Jacobites By Name
  • Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
  • You'Re Welcome, Willie Stewart
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