... Scottish Songs and Ballads The Border Tour The Highland Tour Burns's Assignment of his Works Glossary LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS Robert Burns, the chief of the peasant poets of Scotland, was born in ... The best of his poems, in his own handwriting, had found their way into the hands of the Ballantynes, Hamiltons, Parkers, and Mackenzies, and were much admired Mrs Stewart, of Stair and Afton, ... him at Mossgiel and that was but little and of all the advantage which a cruel, unjust, and insulting law allowed in the proceeds of his poems, for their support and behoof This document was publicly...