| Preface |
1771 -1779 |
| Song - Handsome Nell |
| Song - O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day |
| Song - I Dream'd I Lay |
| Song - In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer |
| Tragic Fragment |
| The Tarbolton Lasses |
| Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear |
| Montgomerie's Peggy |
| Ploughman's Life, The |
1780 |
| The Ronalds Of The Bennals |
| Song - Here's To Thy Health |
| The Lass Of Cessnock Banks |
| Song - Bonie Peggy Alison |
| Song - Mary Morison |
1781 |
| Winter: A Dirge |
| Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish |
| Paraphrase Of The First Psalm |
| The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified |
| Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death |
| Stanzas, On The Same Occasion |
1782 |
| Fickle Fortune: A Fragment |
| Raging Fortune - Fragment Of Song |
| Impromptu - "I'll Go And Be A Sodger" |
| Song - "No Churchman Am I" |
| My Father Was A Farmer |
| John Barleycorn: A Ballad |
1783 |
| The Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, |
| Poor Mailie's Elegy |
| Song - The Rigs O' Barley |
| Song Composed In August |
| Song - My Nanie, O |
| Song-Green Grow The Rashes |
| Song - Wha Is That At My Bower-Door |
1784 |
| Remorse: A Fragment |
| Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton |
| Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton |
| Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, |
| Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father |
| Ballad On The American War |
| Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine |
| Epistle To John Rankine |
| A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter |
| Song - O Leave Novels |
| Fragment - The Mauchline Lady |
| Fragment - My Girl She's Airy |
| The Belles Of Mauchline |
| Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic |
| Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire |
| Epigram On The Said Occasion |
| Another On The Said Occasion |
| On Tam The Chapman |
| Epitaph On John Rankine |
| Lines On The Author's Death |
| Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge |
| The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie |
1785 |
| Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet |
| Holy Willie's Prayer |
| Epitaph On Holy Willie |
| Death and Doctor Hornbook |
| Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard |
| Second Epistle To J. Lapraik |
| Epistle To William Simson |
| One Night As I Did Wander |
| Tho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part |
| Song - Rantin', Rovin' Robin |
| Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux |
| Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock |
| The Holy Fair |
| Third Epistle To J. Lapraik |
| Epistle To The Rev. John M'math |
| Second Epistle to Davie |
| Song-Young Peggy Blooms |
| Song-Farewell To Ballochmyle |
| Fragment-Her Flowing Locks |
| Halloween |
| To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough, November, 1785 |
| Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper |
| Epitaph For James Smith |
| Adam Armour's Prayer |
| The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Air |
| Song-For A' That |
| Song-Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle |
| The Cotter's Saturday Night |
| Address To The Deil |
| Scotch Drink |
1786 |
| The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation |
| The Twa Dogs |
| The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer |
| The Ordination |
| Epistle To James Smith |
| The Vision |
| Suppressed Stanza's Of "The Vision" |
| The Rantin' Dog, The Daddie O't |
| Here's His Health In Water |
| Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous |
| The Inventory |
| To John Kennedy, Dumfries House |
| To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan |
| To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan |
| Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More's |
| Song, Composed In Spring |
| To A Mountain Daisy, |
| To Ruin |
| The Lament |
| Despondency: An Ode |
| To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline, |
| Versified Reply To An Invitation |
| Song-Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary? |
| Song-My Highland Lassie, O |
| Epistle To A Young Friend |
| Address Of Beelzebub |
| A Dream |
| A Dedication |
| Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline |
| The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton. |
| On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies |
| Song-Farewell To Eliza |
| A Bard's Epitaph |
| Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq. |
| Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq. |
| Epitaph On "Wee Johnie" |
| The Lass O' Ballochmyle |
| Lines To An Old Sweetheart |
| Motto Prefixed To The Author's First Publication |
| Lines To Mr. John Kennedy |
| Lines Written On A Banknote |
| Stanzas On Naething |
| The Farewell |
| The Calf |
| Nature's Law-A Poem |
| Song-Willie Chalmers |
| Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor |
| The Brigs Of Ayr |
| Fragment Of Song |
| Epigram On Rough Roads |
| Prayer-O Thou Dread Power |
| Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr |
| Address To The Toothache |
| Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer |
| Masonic Song |
| Tam Samson's Elegy |
| Epistle To Major Logan |
| Fragment On Sensibility |
| A Winter Night |
| Song-Yon Wild Mossy Mountains |
| Address To Edinburgh |
| Address To A Haggis |
1787 |
| To Miss Logan, With Beattie's Poems, For A New-Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787. |
| Mr. William Smellie-A Sketch |
| Rattlin', Roarin' Willie |
| Song-Bonie Dundee |
| Extempore In The Court Of Session |
| Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet |
| Epistle To Mrs. Scott |
| Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture |
| Prologue |
| The Bonie Moor-Hen |
| Song-My Lord A-Hunting |
| Epigram At Roslin Inn |
| Epigram Addressed To An Artist |
| The Book-Worms |
| On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams |
| Song-A Bottle And Friend |
| Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns |
| Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh |
| Epitaph For Mr. William Michie |
| Boat song-Hey, Ca' Thro' |
| Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee |
| Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church |
| Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher |
| Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton |
| Elegy On "Stella" |
| The Bard At Inverary |
| Epigram To Miss Jean Scott |
| On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq, |
| Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair |
| Impromptu On Carron Iron Works |
| To Miss Ferrier |
| Written By Somebody On The Window |
| The Poet's Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic |
| The Libeller's Self-Reproof |
| Verses Written With A Pencil |
| Song-The Birks Of Aberfeldy |
| The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water |
| Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness. |
| Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands |
| Strathallan's Lament |
| Castle Gordon |
| Song-Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky |
| Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary |
| The Bonie Lass Of Albany |
| On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit |
| Blythe Was She |
| A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk |
| Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank |
| Song-The Banks Of The Devon |
| Braving Angry Winter's Storms |
| Song-My Peggy's Charms |
| The Young Highland Rover |
| Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787 |
| On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston, |
| Sylvander To Clarinda |
1788 |
| Love In The Guise Of Friendship |
| Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care |
| Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul |
| I'm O'er Young To Marry Yet |
| To The Weavers Gin Ye Go |
| M'Pherson's Farewell |
| Stay My Charmer |
| Song-My Hoggie |
| Raving Winds Around Her Blowing |
| Up In The Morning Early |
| How Long And Dreary Is The Night |
| Hey, The Dusty Miller |
| Duncan Davison |
| The Lad They Ca'Jumpin John |
| Talk Of Him That's Far Awa |
| To Daunton Me |
| The Winter It Is Past |
| The Bonie Lad That's Far Awa |
| Verses To Clarinda |
| The Chevalier's Lament |
| Epistle To Hugh Parker |
| Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw |
| Song-I Hae a Wife O' My Ain |
| Lines Written In Friars'-Carse Hermitage |
| To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer |
| Song.-Anna, Thy Charms |
| The Fete Champetre |
| Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry |
| Song.-The Day Returns |
| Song.-O, Were I On Parnassus Hill |
| A Mother's Lament |
| The Fall Of The Leaf |
| I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom |
| It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face |
| Auld Lang Syne |
| My Bonie Mary |
| The Parting Kiss |
| Written In Friars Carse Hermitage |
| The Poet's Progress |
| The Poet's Progress |
| Elegy On The Year 1788 |
| The Henpecked Husband |
| Versicles On Sign-Posts |
1789 |
| Robin Shure In Hairst |
| Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive |
| Pegasus At Wanlockhead |
| Sappho Redivivus-A Fragment |
| Song-She's Fair And Fause |
| Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell |
| Lines To John M'Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig |
| Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell |
| Caledonia-A Ballad |
| To Miss Cruickshank |
| Beware O' Bonie Ann |
| Ode On The Departed Regency Bill |
| Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner |
| A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock |
| Sketch In Verse |
| The Wounded Hare |
| Delia, An Ode |
| The Gard'ner Wi' His Paidle |
| On A Bank Of Flowers |
| Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad |
| The Banks Of Nith |
| Jamie, Come Try Me |
| I Love My Love In Secret |
| Sweet Tibbie Dunbar |
| The Captain's Lady |
| John Anderson, My Jo |
| My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet |
| Song-Tam Glen |
| Carle, An The King Come |
| The Laddie's Dear Sel' |
| Whistle O'er The Lave O't |
| My Eppie Adair |
| On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland |
| Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary |
| The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm |
| Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents |
| Sonnet On Receiving A Favour |
| Extemporaneous Effusion |
| Song -Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut |
| Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes |
| I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen |
| Highland Harry Back Again |
| The Battle Of Sherramuir |
| The Braes O' Killiecrankie |
| Awa' Whigs, Awa' |
| A Waukrife Minnie |
| The Captive Ribband |
| My Heart's In The Highlands |
| The Whistle-A Ballad |
| To Mary In Heaven |
| Epistle To Dr. Blacklock |
| The Five Carlins |
| Election Ballad For Westerha' |
| Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries |
1790 |
| Sketch-New Year's Day [1790] |
| Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland |
| Lines To A Gentleman, |
| Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare |
| The Gowden Locks Of Anna |
| Song -I Murder Hate |
| Gudewife, Count The Lawin |
| Election Ballad |
| Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson |
| Verses On Captain Grose |
| Tam O' Shanter |
| On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child |
| Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo |
1791 |
| Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring |
| There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame |
| Song -Out Over The Forth |
| The Banks O' Doon |
| The Banks O' Doon |
| The Banks O' Doon |
| Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn |
| Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart |
| Craigieburn Wood |
| The Bonie Wee Thing |
| Epigram On Miss Davies |
| The Charms Of Lovely Davies |
| What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man |
| The Posie |
| On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain |
| Poem On Pastoral Poetry |
| Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig |
| The Gallant Weaver |
| Epigram At Brownhill Inn |
| You're Welcome, Willie Stewart |
| Lovely Polly Stewart |
| Fragment,-Damon And Sylvia |
| Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver |
| My Eppie Macnab |
| Altho' He Has Left Me |
| O For Ane An' Twenty, Tam |
| Thou Fair Eliza |
| My Bonie Bell |
| Sweet Afton |
| Address To The Shade Of Thomson |
| Nithsdale's Welcome Hame |
| Frae The Friends And Land I Love |
| Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation |
| Ye Jacobites By Name |
| I Hae Been At Crookieden |
| Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty |
| Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry |
| The Song Of Death |
| Poem On Sensibility |
| The Toadeater |
| Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington |
| The Keekin'-Glass |
| A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore |
| A Grace After Dinner, Extempore |
| O May, Thy Morn |
| Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever |
| Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive |
| Thou Gloomy December |
| My Native Land Sae Far Awa |
1792 |
| I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair |
| Lines On Fergusson, The Poet |
| The Weary Pund O' Tow |
| When She Cam' Ben She Bobbed |
| Scroggam, My Dearie |
| My Collier Laddie |
| Sic A Wife As Willie Had |
| Lady Mary Ann |
| Kellyburn Braes |
| The Slave's Lament |
| O Can Ye Labour Lea? |
| The Deuks Dang O'er My Daddie |
| The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman |
| The Country Lass |
| Bessy And Her Spinnin' Wheel |
| Love For Love |
| Saw Ye Bonie Lesley |
| Fragment Of Song |
| I'll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig |
| My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing |
| Highland Mary |
| Auld Rob Morris |
| The Rights Of Woman |
| Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character |
| Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson |
| Duncan Gray |
| Here's A Health To Them That's Awa |
| A Tippling Ballad |
1793 |
| Poortith Cauld And Restless Love |
| On Politics |
| Braw Lads O' Galla Water |
| Sonnet Written On The Author's Birthday, |
| Wandering Willie |
| Wandering Willie |
| Lord Gregory |
| Open The Door To Me, Oh |
| Lovely Young Jessie |
| Meg O' The Mill |
| Meg O' The Mill |
| The Soldier's Return |
| The True Loyal Natives |
| On Commissary Goldie's Brains |
| Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac |
| Thanksgiving For A National Victory |
| Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney's Victory |
| The Raptures Of Folly |
| Kirk and State Excisemen |
| Extempore Reply To An Invitation |
| Grace After Meat |
| Grace Before And After Meat |
| Impromptu On General Dumourier's Desertion From The French Republican Army |
| The Last Time I Came O'er The Moor |
| Logan Braes |
| Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill |
| O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair |
| Bonie Jean-A Ballad |
| Lines On John M'Murdo, ESQ. |
| Epitaph On A Lap-Dog |
| Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway |
| Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan |
| Song -Phillis The Fair |
| Song -Had I A Cave |
| Song.-By Allan Stream |
| Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad |
| Phillis The Queen O' The Fair |
| Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast |
| Dainty Davie |
| Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn |
| Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive |
| Down The Burn, Davie |
| Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie |
| Where Are The Joys I have Met? |
| Deluded Swain, The Pleasure |
| Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair |
| On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday |
| My Spouse Nancy |
| Address |
| Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell |
1794 |
| Remorseful Apology |
| Wilt Thou Be My Dearie? |
| A Fiddler In The North |
| The Minstrel At Lincluden |
| A Vision |
| A Red, Red Rose |
| Young Jamie, Pride Of A' The Plain |
| The Flowery Banks Of Cree |
| Monody |
| The Epitaph |
| Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage |
| Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell |
| Epistle From Esopus To Maria |
| Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb |
| On Capt. Lascelles |
| On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe |
| On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs |
| Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell |
| The Lovely Lass O' Inverness |
| Charlie, He's My Darling |
| Bannocks O' Bear Meal |
| The Highland Balou |
| The Highland Widow's Lament |
| It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King |
| Ode For General Washington's Birthday |
| Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry |
| On The Seas And Far Away |
| Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes |
| She Says She Loes Me Best Of A' |
| To Dr. Maxwell |
| To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N |
| On Chloris |
| On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico |
| Epigram On A Country Laird, |
| On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat |
| On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood |
| On A Suicide |
| On A Swearing Coxcomb |
| On An Innkeeper Nicknamed "The Marquis" |
| On Andrew Turner |
| Pretty Peg |
| Esteem For Chloris |
| Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly |
| How Lang And Dreary Is The Night |
| Inconstancy In Love |
| The Lover's Morning Salute To His Mistress |
| The Winter Of Life |
| Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves |
| The Charming Month Of May |
| Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks |
| Dialogue Song - Philly And Willy |
| Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair |
| Farewell Thou Stream |
| Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie |
| My Nanie's Awa |
| The Tear-Drop |
| For The Sake O' Somebody |
1795 |
| A Man's A Man For A' That |
| Craigieburn Wood |
| The Solemn League And Covenant |
| Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter. |
| Inscription On A Goblet |
| Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine |
| Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson |
| Epigram On Mr. James Gracie |
| Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay |
| Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage |
| There Was A Bonie Lass |
| Wee Willie Gray |
| O Aye My Wife She Dang Me |
| Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon |
| O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun |
| The Lass O' Ecclefechan |
| O Let Me In Thes Ae Night |
| I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town |
| O Wat Ye Wha's In Yon Town |
| Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election, 1795 |
| Ballad Second-Election Day |
| Ballad Third |
| Inscription For An Altar Of Independence |
| The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't |
| The Cooper O' Cuddy |
| The Lass That Made The Bed To Me |
| Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me |
| Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat? |
| Address To The Woodlark |
| Song.-On Chloris Being Ill |
| How Cruel Are The Parents |
| Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion |
| 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e |
| Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle |
| Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near |
| Fragment,-Why, Why Tell The Lover |
| The Braw Wooer |
| This Is No My Ain Lassie |
| O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier |
| Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham |
| O That's The Lassie O' My Heart |
| Inscription |
| Fragment.-Leezie Lindsay |
| Fragment.-The Wren's Nest |
| News, Lassies, News |
| Crowdie Ever Mair |
| Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet |
| Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss |
| Verses To Collector Mitchell |
1796 |
| The Dean Of Faculty |
| Epistle To Colonel De Peyster |
| A Lass Wi' A Tocher |
| The Trogger. |
| Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars |
| O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass |
| A Health To Ane I Loe Dear |
| O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast |
| Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars |
