Poetry from Scotland

Poetry from Scotland, Scottish Poetry, mainly Anglophone poetry from Scotland    

• Robert Burns: I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair: Alteration of an Old Poem.
• Robert Burns: My Native Land Sae Far Awa:
• Robert Burns: Thou Gloomy December :
• Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
• Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever:
• Robert Burns: O May, Thy Morn:
• Robert Burns: A Grace After Dinner, Extempore:
• Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
• Robert Burns: The Keekin’-Glass:
• Robert Burns: Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington:
• Robert Burns: The Toadeater:
• Robert Burns: Poem On Sensibility:
• Robert Burns: The Song Of Death: Scene-A Field of Battle. Time of the day-evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song.
• Robert Burns: Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry:
• Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
• Robert Burns: O Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie:
• Robert Burns: I Hae Been At Crookieden:
• Robert Burns: Ye Jacobites By Name:
• Robert Burns: Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation:
• Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
• Robert Burns: Nithsdale’s Welcome Hame:
• Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays.
• Robert Burns: Sweet Afton :
• Robert Burns: My Bonie Bell:
• Robert Burns: Thou Fair Eliza:
• Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
• Robert Burns: My Tocher’s The Jewel:
• Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me:
• Robert Burns: My Eppie Macnab:
• Robert Burns: Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver:
• Robert Burns: Damon And Sylvia: Fragment
• Robert Burns: Lovely Polly Stewart:
• Robert Burns: You’re Welcome, Willie Stewart:
• Robert Burns: Epigram At Brownhill Inn:
• Robert Burns: The Gallant Weaver:
• Robert Burns: Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig:
• Robert Burns: Poem On Pastoral Poetry :
• Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment
• Robert Burns: The Posie :
• Robert Burns: What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi’ An Auld Man:
• Robert Burns: The Charms Of Lovely Davies:
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Miss Davies: On being asked why she had been formed so little, and Mrs. A-so big.
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Wee Thing:
• Robert Burns: Craigieburn Wood:
• Robert Burns: Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart: With The Lament On The Death Of the Earl Of Glencairn
• Robert Burns: Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn:
• Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Third Version
• Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Second Version
• Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version
• Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
• Robert Burns: There’ll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame:
• Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo :
• Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
• Robert Burns: Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale
• Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
• Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson: A Gentleman who held the Patent for his Honours immediately from Almighty God.
• Robert Burns: Election Ballad: At the close of the contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790. Addressed to R. Graham, Esq. of Fintry.
• Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
• Robert Burns: I Murder Hate:
• Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare:
• Robert Burns: Lines To A Gentleman,: Who had sent the Poet a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of Expense.
• Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
• Robert Burns: Sketch -New Year’s Day [1790]: To Mrs. Dunlop.
• Robert Burns: Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries: On New Year’s Day Evening, 1790.
• Robert Burns: Election Ballad For Westerha’:
• Robert Burns: The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Dr. Blacklock: Ellisland, 21st Oct., 1789
• Robert Burns: To Mary In Heaven:
• Robert Burns: The Whistle -A Ballad:
• Robert Burns: My Heart’s In The Highlands:
• Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
• Robert Burns: A Waukrife Minnie:
• Robert Burns: Awa’ Whigs, Awa’:
• Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie:
• Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir:
• Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again:
• Robert Burns: I Gaed A Waefu’ Gate Yestreen:
• Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes:
• Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
• Robert Burns: Extemporaneous Effusion: On being appointed to an Excise division.
• Robert Burns: Sonnet On Receiving A Favour: Addressed to Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry.
• Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents:
• Robert Burns: The Kirk Of Scotland’s Alarm:
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary:
• Robert Burns: On The Late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations Thro’ Scotland: Collecting The Antiquities Of That Kingdom
• Robert Burns: My Eppie Adair:
• Robert Burns: Whistle O’er The Lave O’t:
• Robert Burns: The Laddie’s Dear Sel’:
• Robert Burns: Carle, An The King Come:
• Robert Burns: Tam Glen:
• Robert Burns: My Love, She’s But A Lassie Yet:
• Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo:
• Robert Burns: The Captain’s Lady:
• Robert Burns: Sweet Tibbie Dunbar:
• Robert Burns: I Love My Love In Secret:
• Robert Burns: Jamie, Come Try Me:
• Robert Burns: The Banks Of Nith:
• Robert Burns: Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad:
• Robert Burns: On A Bank Of Flowers:
• Robert Burns: The Gard’ner Wi’ His Paidle:
• Robert Burns: Delia, An Ode : “To the Editor of The Star.-Mr. Printer-If the productions of a simple ploughman can merit a place in the same paper with Sylvester Otway, and the other favourites of the Muses who illuminate the Star with the lustre of genius, your insertion of the enclosed trifle will be succeeded by future communications from-Yours, &c., R. Burns. Ellisland, near Dumfries, 18th May, 1789.”
• Robert Burns: The Wounded Hare:
• Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse: Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox.
• Robert Burns: A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock: On the Thanksgiving-Day for His Majesty’s Recovery.
• Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner:
• Robert Burns: Ode On The Departed Regency Bill:
• Robert Burns: Beware O’ Bonie Ann:
• Robert Burns: To Miss Cruickshank, a very Young Lady : Written on the Blank Leaf of a Book, presented to her by the Author.
• Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad :
• Robert Burns: Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig: Sent with some of the Author’s Poems.
• Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper.
• Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause:
• Robert Burns: Sappho Redivivus: Fragment
• Robert Burns: Pegasus At Wanlockhead:
• Robert Burns: Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive:
• Robert Burns: Robin Shure In Hairst:
• Robert Burns: Versicles On Sign-Posts :
• Robert Burns: The Henpecked Husband:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On The Year 1788:
• Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
• Robert Burns: Written In Friars Carse Hermitage: On Nithside
• Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
• Robert Burns: My Bonie Mary:
• Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
• Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
• Robert Burns: I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom:
• Robert Burns: The Fall Of The Leaf:
• Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
• Robert Burns: O, Were I On Parnassus Hill:
• Robert Burns: The Day Returns:
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
• Robert Burns: The Fete Champetre:
• Robert Burns: Anna, Thy Charms:
• Robert Burns: To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer: Ellisland, Nithsdale, July 27th, 1788.
• Robert Burns: Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage:
• Robert Burns: I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain:
• Robert Burns: Of A’ The Airts The Wind Can Blaw:
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Hugh Parker:
• Robert Burns: The Chevalier’s Lament:
• Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
• Robert Burns: The Winter It Is Past:
• Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
• Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
• Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
• Robert Burns: Duncan Davison :
• Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
• Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
• Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Lad That’s Far Awa:
• Robert Burns: The Winter It Is Past:
• Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
• Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
• Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
• Robert Burns: Duncan Davison :
• Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
• Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
• Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
• Robert Burns: Raving Winds Around Her Blowing: I composed these verses on Miss Isabella M’Leod of Raza, alluding to her feelings on the death of her sister, and the still more melancholy death of her sister’s husband, the late Earl of Loudoun, who shot himself out of sheer heart-break at some mortifications he suffered, owing to the deranged state of his finances.-R.B., 1971.
• Robert Burns: My Hoggie:
• Robert Burns: Stay My Charmer:
• Robert Burns: M’Pherson’s Farewell:
• Robert Burns: To The Weavers Gin Ye Go:
• Robert Burns: I’m O’er Young To Marry Yet:
• Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
• Robert Burns: Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care:
• Robert Burns: Love In The Guise Of Friendship:
• Robert Burns: Sylvander To Clarinda: Extempore Reply to Verses addressed to the Author by a Lady, under the signature of “Clarinda” and entitled, On Burns saying he ‘had nothing else to do.’
• Robert Burns: On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,: Late Lord President of the Court of Session.
• Robert Burns: Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787:
• Robert Burns: The Young Highland Rover:
• Robert Burns: My Peggy’s Charms:
• Robert Burns: Braving Angry Winter’s Storms:
• Robert Burns: The Banks Of The Devon:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
• Robert Burns: A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk:
• Robert Burns: Blythe Was She:
• Robert Burns: On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit : A wild scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre.
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Lass Of Albany:
• Robert Burns: Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary:
• Robert Burns: Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky:
• Robert Burns: Castle Gordon:
• Robert Burns: Strathallan’s Lament:
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands:
• Robert Burns: Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.: Written with a Pencil on the Spot.
• Robert Burns: The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water: To the noble Duke of Athole.
• Robert Burns: The Birks Of Aberfeldy:
• Robert Burns: Verses Written With A Pencil Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.:
• Robert Burns: The Libeller’s Self-Reproof:
• Robert Burns: The Poet’s Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic: My imprudent lines were answered, very petulantly, by somebody, I believe, a Rev. Mr. Hamilton. In a MS., where I met the answer, I wrote below:-
• Robert Burns: Written By Somebody On The Window Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.: Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.
• Robert Burns: To Miss Ferrier: Enclosing the Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair.
• Robert Burns: Impromptu On Carron Iron Works:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair:
• Robert Burns: On The Death Of John M’Leod, Esq,: Brother to a young Lady, a particular friend of the Author’s.
• Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Jean Scott:
• Robert Burns: The Bard At Inverary:
• Robert Burns: Elegy On “Stella”: The following poem is the work of some hapless son of the Muses who deserved a better fate. There is a great deal of “The voice of Cona” in his solitary, mournful notes; and had the sentiments been clothed in Shenstone’s language, they would have been no discredit even to that elegant poet.-R.B.
• Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
• Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church: Who was looking up the text during sermon.
• Robert Burns: Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee: With an Impression of the Author’s Portrait.
• Robert Burns: Hey, Ca’ Thro’ – Boat song:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. William Michie: Schoolmaster of Cleish Parish, Fifeshire.
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh:
• Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
• Robert Burns: A Bottle And Friend:
• Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
• Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
• Robert Burns: Epigram Addressed To An Artist:
• Robert Burns: Epigram At Roslin Inn:
• Robert Burns: My Lord A-Hunting:
• Robert Burns: The Bonie Moor-Hen:
• Robert Burns: Prologue: Spoken by Mr. Woods on his benefit-night, Monday, 16th April, 1787
• Robert Burns: Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl’s Picture:
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Mrs. Scott: Gudewife of Wauchope-House, Roxburghshire.
• Robert Burns: Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet:
• Robert Burns: Extempore In The Court Of Session:
• Robert Burns: Bonie Dundee:
• Robert Burns: Rattlin’, Roarin’ Willie:
• Robert Burns: Mr. William Smellie -A Sketch:
• Robert Burns: To Miss Logan, With Beattie’s Poems, For A New-Year’s Gift, Jan. 1, 1787:
• Robert Burns: Address To A Haggis:
• Robert Burns: Address To Edinburgh:
• Robert Burns: Yon Wild Mossy Mountains:
• Robert Burns: A Winter Night :
• Robert Burns: On Sensibility: Fragment
• Robert Burns: Epistle To Major Logan:
• Robert Burns: Tam Samson’s Elegy: When this worthy old sportman went out, last muirfowl season, he supposed it was to be, in Ossian’s phrase, “the last of his fields,” and expressed an ardent wish to die and be buried in the muirs. On this hint the author composed his elegy and epitaph.-R.B., 1787.
• Robert Burns: Composed In Spring:
• Robert Burns: Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s: Presented to the Author by a Lady.
• Robert Burns: To A Louse: On Seeing One On A Lady’s Bonnet, At Church
• Robert Burns: To Mr. M’Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan: In answer to an obliging Letter he sent in the commencement of my poetic career.
• Robert Burns: To John Kennedy, Dumfries House:
• Robert Burns: The Inventory: In answer to a mandate by the Surveyor of the Taxes
• Robert Burns: Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous:
• Robert Burns: Here’s His Health In Water :
• Robert Burns: The Rantin’ Dog, The Daddie O’t:
• Robert Burns: The Vision:
• Robert Burns: Epistle To James Smith:
• Robert Burns: The Ordination : For sense they little owe to frugal Heav’n- To please the mob, they hide the little giv’n.
• Robert Burns: The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer: To the Right Honourable and Honourable Scotch Representatives in the House of Commons.
• Robert Burns: The Twa Dogs: A Tale
• Robert Burns: 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.
• Robert Burns: Scotch Drink :
• Robert Burns: Address To The Deil:
• Robert Burns: The Cotter’s Saturday Night: Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq., of Ayr.
• Robert Burns: Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle:
• Robert Burns: For A’ That:
• Robert Burns: The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata:
• Robert Burns: Adam Armour’s Prayer:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For James Smith:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper:
• Robert Burns: To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough:
• Robert Burns: Halloween: The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who are unacquainted with the manners and traditions of the country where the scene is cast, notes are added to give some account of the principal charms and spells of that night, so big with prophecy to the peasantry in the west of Scotland. The passion of prying into futurity makes a striking part of the history of human nature in its rude state, in all ages and nations; and it may be some entertainment to a philosophic mind, if any such honour the author with a perusal, to see the remains of it among the more unenlightened in our own.-R.B.
• Robert Burns: Farewell To Ballochmyle:
• Robert Burns: Young Peggy Blooms:
• Robert Burns: Second Epistle to Davie: A Brother Poet
• Robert Burns: Masonic Song:
• Robert Burns: Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer:
• Robert Burns: Address To The Toothache:
• Robert Burns: Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr: “I composed this song as I conveyed my chest so far on my road to Greenock, where I was to embark in a few days for Jamaica. I meant it as my farewell dirge to my native land.”-R. B.
• Robert Burns: O Thou Dread Power: Lying at a reverend friend’s house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept:-
• Robert Burns: Epigram On Rough Roads:
• Robert Burns: Fragment Of Song:
• Robert Burns: The Brigs Of Ayr: Inscribed to John Ballantine, Esq., Ayr.
• Robert Burns: Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor:
• Robert Burns: Willie Chalmers: Mr. Chalmers, a gentleman in Ayrshire, a particular friend of mine, asked me to write a poetic epistle to a young lady, his Dulcinea. I had seen her, but was scarcely acquainted with her, and wrote as follows:-
• Robert Burns: Nature’s Law – A Poem: Humbly inscribed to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
• Robert Burns: The Calf: To the Rev. James Steven, on his text, Malachi, ch. iv. vers. 2. “And ye shall go forth, and grow up, as Calves of the stall.”
• Robert Burns: Thomson’s Edward and Eleanora.:
• Robert Burns: The Farewell:
• Robert Burns: Stanzas On Naething: Extempore Epistle to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
• Robert Burns: Lines Written On A Banknote:
• Robert Burns: Lines To Mr. John Kennedy:
• Robert Burns: Motto Prefixed To The Author’s First Publication:
• Robert Burns: Lines To An Old Sweetheart:
• Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ballochmyle:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph On “Wee Johnie”: Hic Jacet wee Johnie.
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.:
• Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
• Robert Burns: A Bard’s Epitaph:
• Robert Burns: Farewell To Eliza:
• Robert Burns: On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies:
• Robert Burns: The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton:
• Robert Burns: Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline:
• Robert Burns: A Dedication : To Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
• Robert Burns: A Dream: Thoughts, words, and deeds, the Statute blames with reason; But surely Dreams were ne’er indicted Treason. On reading, in the public papers, the Laureate’s Ode, with the other parade of June 4th, 1786, the Author was no sooner dropt asleep, than he imagined himself transported to the Birth-day Levee: and, in his dreaming fancy, made the following Address:
• Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
• Robert Burns: Epistle To A Young Friend:
• Robert Burns: My Highland Lassie, O:
• Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
• Robert Burns: Versified Reply To An Invitation:
• Robert Burns: To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,: Recommending a Boy.
• Robert Burns: Despondency: An Ode:
• Robert Burns: Home.:
• Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.

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