1 A free download from manybooks.net The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence., by Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: 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 Author: Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham Release Date: June 4, 2006 [EBook #18500] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 • START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) Transcriber's Note The hyphenation and accent of words is not uniform throughout the book No change has been made in this The relative indentations of Poems, Epitaphs, and Songs are as printed in the original book 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 ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY NEW YORK: J.C DERBY 1855 TO ARCHIBALD HASTIE, ESQ., MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR PAISLEY THIS EDITION OF THE WORKS AND MEMOIRS OF A GREAT POET, IN WHOSE SENTIMENTS OF FREEDOM HE SHARES, AND WHOSE PICTURES OF SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC LIFE HE LOVES, IS RESPECTFULLY AND GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY ALLAN CUNNINGHAM DEDICATION TO THE NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CALEDONIAN HUNT [On the title-page of the second or Edinburgh edition, were these words: "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787." The motto of the Kilmarnock edition was omitted; a very numerous list of subscribers followed: the volume was printed by the celebrated Smellie.] MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN: A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to sing in his country's service, where shall he so properly look for patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha at the PLOUGH, and threw her inspiring mantle over me She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my songs under your honoured protection: I now obey her dictates Though much indebted to your goodness, I not approach you, my Lords and Gentlemen, in the usual style of dedication, to thank you for past favours: that path is so hackneyed by prostituted learning that honest rusticity is ashamed of it Nor I present this address with the venal soul of a servile author, looking for a continuation of those favours: I was bred to the plough, and am independent I come to claim the common Scottish name with you, my illustrious countrymen; and to tell the world that I glory in the title I come to congratulate my country that the blood of her ancient heroes still runs uncontaminated, and that from your courage, knowledge, and public spirit, she may expect protection, wealth, and liberty In the last place, I come to proffer my warmest wishes to the great fountain of honour, the Monarch of the universe, for your welfare and happiness When you go forth to waken the echoes, in the ancient and favourite amusement of your forefathers, may Pleasure ever be of your party: and may social joy await your return! When harassed in courts or camps with the jostlings of bad men and bad measures, may the honest consciousness of injured worth attend your return to your native seats; and may domestic happiness, with a smiling welcome, meet you at your gates! May corruption shrink at your kindling indignant glance; and may tyranny in the ruler, and licentiousness in the people, equally find you an inexorable foe! I have the honour to be, With the sincerest gratitude and highest respect, My Lords and Gentlemen, Your most devoted humble servant, ROBERT BURNS EDINBURGH, _April 4, 1787._ PREFACE I cannot give to my country this edition of one of its favourite poets, without stating that I have deliberately omitted several pieces of verse ascribed to Burns by other editors, who too hastily, and I think on insufficient testimony, admitted them among his works If I am unable to share in the hesitation expressed by one of them on the authorship of the stanzas on "Pastoral Poetry," I can as little share in the feelings with which they have intruded into the charmed circle of his poetry such compositions as "Lines on the Ruins of Lincluden College," "Verses on the Destruction of the Woods of Drumlanrig," "Verses written on a Marble Slab in the Woods of Aberfeldy," and those entitled "The Tree of Liberty." These productions, with the exception of the last, were never seen by any one even in the handwriting of Burns, and are one and all wanting in that original vigour of language and manliness of sentiment which distinguish his poetry With respect to "The Tree of Liberty" in particular, a subject dear to the heart of the Bard, can any one conversant with his genius imagine that he welcomed its growth or celebrated its fruit with such "capon craws" as these? "Upo' this tree there grows sic fruit, Its virtues a' can tell, man; It raises man aboon the brute, It mak's him ken himsel', man Gif ance the peasant taste a bit, He's greater than a lord, man, An' wi' a beggar shares a mite O' a' he can afford, man." There are eleven stanzas, of which the best, compared with the "A man's a man for a' that" of Burns, sounds like a cracked pipkin against the "heroic clang" of a Damascus blade That it is extant in the handwriting of the poet cannot be taken as a proof that it is his own composition, against the internal testimony of utter want of all the marks by which we know him the Burns-stamp, so to speak, which is visible on all that ever came from his pen Misled by his handwriting, I inserted in my former edition of his works an epitaph, beginning "Here lies a rose, a budding rose," the composition of Shenstone, and which is to be found in the church-yard of Hales-Owen: as it is not included in every edition of that poet's acknowledged works, Burns, who was an admirer of his genius, had, it seems, copied it with his own hand, and hence my error If I hesitated about the exclusion of "The Tree of Liberty," and its three false brethren, I could have no scruples regarding the fine song of "Evan Banks," claimed and justly for Miss Williams by Sir Walter Scott, or the humorous song called "Shelah O'Neal," composed by the late Sir Alexander Boswell When I have stated that I have arranged the Poems, the Songs, and the Letters of Burns, as nearly as possible in the order in which they were written; that I have omitted no piece of either verse or prose which bore the impress of his hand, nor included any by which his high reputation would likely be impaired, I have said all that seems necessary to be said, save that the following letter came too late for insertion in its proper place: it is characteristic and worth a place anywhere ALLAN CUNNINGHAM TO DR ARCHIBALD LAURIE _Mossgiel, 13th Nov 1786._ DEAR SIR, I have along with this sent the two volumes of Ossian, with the remaining volume of the Songs Ossian I am not in such a hurry about; but I wish the Songs, with the volume of the Scotch Poets, returned as soon as they can conveniently be dispatched If they are left at Mr Wilson, the bookseller's shop, Kilmarnock, they will easily reach me My most respectful compliments to Mr and Mrs Laurie; and a Poet's warmest wishes for their happiness to the young ladies; particularly the fair musician, whom I think much better qualified than ever David was, or could be, to charm an evil spirit out of a Saul Indeed, it needs not the Feelings of a poet to be interested in the welfare of one of the sweetest scenes of domestic peace and kindred love that ever I saw; as I think the peaceful unity of St Margaret's Hill can only be excelled by the harmonious concord of the Apocalyptic Zion I am, dear Sir, yours sincerely, ROBERT BURNS TABLE OF CONTENTS THE LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS Preface to the Kilmarnock Edition of 1786 Dedication to the Edinburgh Edition of 1787 POEMS Winter A Dirge The Death and dying Words of poor Mailie Poor Mailie's Elegy First Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet Second Address to the Deil The auld Farmer's New-year Morning Salutation to his auld Mare Maggie To a Haggis A Prayer under the pressure of violent Anguish A Prayer in the prospect of Death Stanzas on the same occasion A Winter Night Remorse A Fragment The Jolly Beggars A Cantata Death and Dr Hornbook A True Story The Twa Herds; or, the Holy Tulzie Holy Willie's Prayer Epitaph to Holy Willie The Inventory; in answer to a mandate by the surveyor of taxes The Holy Fair The Ordination The Calf To James Smith The Vision Halloween Man was made to Mourn A Dirge To Ruin To John Goudie of Kilmarnock, on the publication of his Essays To J Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard First Epistle To J Lapraik Second Epistle To J Lapraik Third Epistle To William Simpson, Ochiltree Address to an illegitimate Child Nature's Law A Poem humbly inscribed to G.H., Esq To the Rev John M'Math To a Mouse Scotch Drink The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives of the House of Commons Address to the unco Guid, or the rigidly Righteous Tam Samson's Elegy Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour Despondency An Ode The Cotter's Saturday Night The first Psalm The first six Verses of the ninetieth Psalm To a Mountain Daisy Epistle to a young Friend To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church Epistle to J Rankine, enclosing some Poems On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies The Farewell Written on the blank leaf of my Poems, presented to an old Sweetheart then married A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner On the Birth of a posthumous Child To Miss Cruikshank Willie Chalmers Verses left in the room where he slept To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., recommending a boy To Mr M'Adam, of Craigen-gillan Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent to the Author by a Tailor To J Rankine "I am a keeper of the law." Lines written on a Bank-note A Dream A Bard's Epitaph The Twa Dogs A Tale Lines on meeting with Lord Daer Address to Edinburgh Epistle to Major Logan The Brigs of Ayr On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston, late Lord President of the Court of Session On reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M'Leod, Esq To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems The American War, A fragment The Dean of Faculty A new Ballad To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-glasses To Clarinda Verses written under the Portrait of the Poet Fergusson Prologue spoken by Mr Woods, on his Benefit-night, Monday, April 16, 1787 Sketch A Character To Mr Scott, of Wauchope Epistle to William Creech The humble Petition of Bruar-Water, to the noble Duke of Athole On scaring some Water-fowl in Loch Turit Written with a pencil, over the chimney-piece, in the parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness To Mr William Tytler, with the present of the Bard's picture Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on the banks of Nith, June, 1780 First Copy The same December, 1788 Second Copy To Captain Riddel, of Glenriddel Extempore lines on returning a Newspaper A Mother's Lament for the Death of her Son First Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Epistle to Hugh Parker Lines, intended to be written under a Noble Earl's Picture Elegy on the year 1788 A Sketch Address to the Toothache Ode Sacred to the memory of Mrs Oswald, of Auchencruive Fragment inscribed to the Right Hon C.J Fox On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which a Fellow had just shot To Dr Blacklock In answer to a Letter Delia An Ode To John M'Murdo, Esq Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, 1st January, 1790 Scots Prologue, for Mr Sutherland's Benefit-night, Dumfries Sketch New-year's Day To Mrs Dunlop To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of expense The Kirk's Alarm A Satire First Version The Kirk's Alarm A Ballad Second Version Peg Nicholson On Captain Matthew Henderson, a gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from Almighty God The Five Carlins A Scots Ballad The Laddies by the Banks o' Nith Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on the close of the disputed Election between Sir James Johnstone, and Captain Miller, for the Dumfries district of Boroughs On Captain Grose's Peregrination through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that kingdom Written in a wrapper, enclosing a letter to Captain Grose Tam O' Shanter A Tale Address of Beelzebub to the President of the Highland Society To John Taylor Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the approach of Spring The Whistle Elegy on Miss Burnet of Monboddo Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn 10 Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart., of Whitefoord, with the foregoing Poem Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam with bays To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on receiving a favour A Vision To John Maxwell, of Terraughty, on his birthday The Rights of Women, an occasional Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit-night, Nov 26, 1792 Monody on a Lady famed for her caprice Epistle from Esopus to Maria Poem on Pastoral Poetry Sonnet, written on the 25th January, 1793, the birthday of the Author, on hearing a thrush sing in a morning walk Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glenriddel, April, 1794 Impromptu on Mrs Riddel's birthday Liberty A Fragment Verses to a young Lady The Vowels A Tale Verses to John Rankine On Sensibility To my dear and much-honoured friend, Mrs Dunlop, of Dunlop Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit-night On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character To Chloris Poetical Inscription for an Altar to Independence The Heron Ballads Balled First The Heron Ballads Ballad Second The Heron Ballads Ballad Third Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796 996 horse, &c.) _Teat_, a small quantity _Teethless bawtie_, toothless cur _Teethless gab_, a mouth wanting the teeth, an expression of scorn _Ten-hours-bite_, a slight feed to the horse while in the yoke in the forenoon _Tent_, a field pulpit, heed, caution; to take heed _Tentie_, heedful, cautious _Tentless_, heedless, careless _Teugh_, tough _Thack_, thatch; _thack an' rape_, clothing and necessaries _Thae_, these _Thairms_, small guts, fiddle-strings _Thankit_, thanked _Theekit_, thatched _Thegither_, together _Themsel'_, themselves _Thick_, intimate, familiar _Thigger_, crowding, make a noise; a seeker of alms _Thir_, these _Thirl_, to thrill _Thirled_, thrilled, vibrated _Thole_, to suffer, to endure _Thowe_, a thaw, to thaw _Thowless_, slack, lazy _Thrang_, throng, busy, a crowd 997 _Thrapple_, throat, windpipe _Thraw_, to sprain, to twist, to contradict _Thrawin'_, twisting, &c _Thrawn_, sprained, twisted, contradicted, contradiction _Threap_, to maintain by dint of assertion _Threshin'_, threshing; _threshin'-tree_, a flail _Threteen_, thirteen _Thristle_, thistle _Through_, to go on with, to make out _Throuther_, pell-mell, confusedly (through-ither) _Thrum_, sound of a spinning-wheel in motion, the thread remaining at the end of a web _Thud_, to make a loud intermittent noise _Thummart_, foumart, polecat _Thumpit_, thumped _Thysel'_, thyself _Till't_, to it _Timmer_, timber _Tine_, to lose; _tint_, lost _Tinkler_, a tinker _Tip_, a ram _Tippence_, twopence, money _Tirl_, to make a slight noise, to uncover _Tirlin'_, _tirlet_, uncovering _Tither_, the other _Tittle_, to whisper, to prate idly 998 _Tittlin_, whispering _Tocher_, marriage portion; _tocher bands_, marriage bonds _Tod_, a fox _"Tod i' the fauld,"_ fox in the fold _Toddle_, to totter, like the walk of a child; _todlen-dow_, toddling dove _Too-fa'_, "Too fa' o' the nicht," when twilight darkens into night; a building added, a lean-to _Toom_, empty _Toomed_, emptied _Toop_, a ram _Toss_, a toast _Tosie_, warm and ruddy with warmth, good-looking, intoxicating _Toun_, a hamlet, a farmhouse _Tout_, the blast of a horn or trumpet, to blow a horn or trumpet _Touzles_, _touzling_, romping, ruffling the clothes _Tow_, a rope _Towmond_, a twelvemonth _Towzie_, rough, shaggy _Toy_, a very old fashion of female head-dress _Toyte_, to totter like old age _Trams_, _barrow-trams_, the handles of a barrow _Transmugrified_, transmigrated, metamorphosed _Trashtrie_, trash, rubbish _Trickie_, full of tricks _Trig_, spruce, neat _Trimly_, cleverly, excellently, in a seemly manner _Trinle_, _trintle_, the wheel of a barrow, to roll 999 _Trinklin_, trickling _Troggers_, _troggin'_, wandering merchants, goods to truck or dispose of _Trow_, to believe, to trust to _Trowth_, truth, a petty oath _Trysts_, appointments, love meetings, cattle shows _Tumbler-wheels_, wheels of a kind of low cart _Tug_, raw hide, of which in old time plough-traces were frequently made _Tug_ or _tow_, either in leather or rope _Tulzie_, a quarrel, to quarrel, to fight _Twa_, two; _twa-fald_, twofold _Twa-three_, a few _Twad_, it would _Twal_, twelve; _twalpennie worth_, a small quantity, a pennyworth N.B One penny English is 12d Scotch _Twa faul_, twofold _Twin_, to part _Twistle_, twisting, the art of making a rope _Tyke_, a dog _Tysday_, Tuesday U _Unback'd filly_, a young mare hitherto unsaddled _Unco_, strange, uncouth, very, very great, prodigious _Uncos_, news _Unfauld_, unfold _Unkenn'd_, unknown _Unsicker_, uncertain, wavering, insecure 1000 _Unskaithed_, undamaged, unhurt _Upo'_, upon V _Vap'rin_, vapouring _Vauntie_, joyous, delight which cannot contain itself _Vera_, very _Virl_, a ring round a column, &c _Vogie_, vain W _Wa'_, wall; _wa's_, walls _Wabster_, a weaver _Wad_, would, to bet, a bet, a pledge _Wadna_, would not _Wadset_, land on which money is lent, a mortgage _Wae_, woe; _waefu'_, sorrowful, wailing _Waefu'-woodie_, hangman's rope _Waesucks! Wae's me!_, Alas! O the pity! _Wa' flower_, wall-flower _Waft_, woof; the cross thread that goes from the shuttle through the web _Waifs an' crocks_, stray sheep and old ewes past breeding _Wair_, to lay out, to expend _Wale_, choice, to choose _Wal'd_, chose, chosen _Walie_, ample, large, jolly, also an exclamation of distress _Wame_, the belly _Wamefu'_, a bellyful 1001 _Wanchansie_, unlucky _Wanrest_, _wanrestfu'_, restless, unrestful _Wark_, work _Wark-lume_, a tool to work with _Warld's-worm_, a miser _Warle_, or _warld_, world _Warlock_, a wizard; _warlock-knowe_, a knoll where warlocks once held tryste _Warly_, worldly, eager in amassing wealth _Warran'_, a warrant, to warrant _Warsle_, wrestle _Warsl'd_, or _warst'led_, wrestled _Wastrie_, prodigality _Wat_, wet; _I wat_ _I wot_ I know _Wat_, a man's upper dress; a sort of mantle _Water-brose_, brose made of meal and water simply, without the addition of milk, butter, &c _Wattle_, a twig, a wand _Wauble_, to swing, to reel _Waukin_, waking, watching _Waukit_, thickened as fullers cloth _Waukrife_, not apt to sleep _Waur_, worse, to worst _Waur't_, worsted _Wean_, a child _Weary-widdle_, toilsome contest of life 1002 _Weason_, weasand, windpipe _Weaven' the stocking_, to knit stockings _Weeder-clips_, instrument for removing weeds _Wee_, little; _wee things_, little ones, _wee bits_, a small matter _Weel_, well; _weelfare_, welfare _Weet_, rain, wetness; to wet _We'se_, we shall _Wha_, who _Whaizle_, to wheeze _Whalpit_, whelped _Whang_, a leathorn thing, a piece of cheese, bread, &c _Whare_, where; _whare'er_, wherever _Wheep_, to fly nimbly, to jerk, penny-wheep, small-beer _Whase_, _wha's_, whose who is _What reck_, nevertheless _Whid_, the motion of a hare running but not frightened. a lie _Whidden_, running as a hare or coney _Whigmeleeries_, whims, fancies, crotchets _Whilk_, which _Whingin'_, crying, complaining, fretting _Whirligigums_, useless ornaments, trifling appendages _Whissle_, a whistle, to whistle _Whisht_, silence; _to hold one's whisht_, to be silent _Whisk_, _whisket_, to sweep, to lash _Whiskin' beard_, a beard like the whiskers of a cat _Whiskit_, lashed, the motion of a horse's tail removing flies 1003 _Whitter_, a hearty draught of liquor _Whittle_, a knife _Whunstane_, a whinstone _Wi'_, with _Wick_, to strike a stone in an oblique direction, a term in curling _Widdifu_, twisted like a withy, one who merits hanging _Wiel_, a small whirlpool _Wifie-wifikie_, a diminutive or endearing name for wife _Wight_, stout, enduring _Willyart-glower_, a bewildered dismayed stare _Wimple-womplet_, to meander, meandered, to enfold _Wimplin_, waving, meandering _Win_', to wind, to winnow _Winnin'-thread_, putting thread into hanks _Win't_, winded as a bottom of yarn _Win_', wind _Win_, live _Winna_, will not _Winnock_, a window _Winsome_, hearty, vaunted, gay _Wintle_, a staggering motion, to stagger, to reel _Wiss_, to wish _Withouten_, without _Wizened_, hide-bound, dried, shrunk _Winze_, a curse or imprecation _Wonner_, a wonder, a contemptuous appellation 1004 _Woo_', wool _Woo_, to court, to make love to _Widdie_, a rope, more properly one of withs or willows _Woer-bobs_, the garter knitted below the knee with a couple of loops _Wordy_, worthy _Worset_, worsted _Wrack_, to tease, to vex _Wud_, wild, mad; _wud-mad_, distracted _Wumble_, a wimble _Wraith_, a spirit, a ghost, an apparition exactly like a living person, whose appearance is said to forbode the person's approaching death; also wrath _Wrang_, wrong, to wrong _Wreeth_, a drifted heap of snow _Wyliecoat_, a flannel vest _Wyte_, blame, to blame Y _Ye_, this pronoun is frequently used for thou _Yearns_, longs much _Yealings_, born in the same year, coevals _Year_, is used both for singular and plural, years _Yell_, barren, that gives no milk _Yerk_, to lash, to jerk _Yerket_, jerked, lashed _Yestreen_, yesternight _Yett_, a gate _Yeuk's_, itches 1005 _Yill_, ale _Yird, yirded_, earth, earthed, buried _Yokin_', yoking _Yont_, ayont, beyond _Yirr_, lively _Yowe_, an ewe _Yowie_, diminutive of _yowe._ _Yule_, Christmas THE END End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence., by Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham • END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS *** ♦ This file should be named 18500-8.txt or 18500-8.zip ***** This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: http://www.gutenberg.org/1/8/5/0/18500/ Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) 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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