A collection of poems and songs by the Scottish poet Robert Burns, written in the late eighteenth century. It includes love lyrics, pastoral and humorous verses, often in Scots dialect, alongside songs of rural life and nature. Worth listening to for the musicality of the verse and the warmth with which Burns portrays everyday feelings and ordinary people.
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Opening of the book
POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS by Robert Burns
1771 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 Glossary 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 Tarbolton Lasses, The Montgomerie’s Peggy Ploughman’s Life, The 1780 Ronalds Of The Bennals, The Song—Here’s To Thy Health Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The1 Song—Bonie Peggy Alison Song—Mary Morison 1781 Winter: A Dirge Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish Paraphrase Of The First Psalm First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The 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” A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge My Father Was A Farmer John Barleycorn: A Ballad 1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author’s Only Pet Yowe., The Poor Mailie’s Elegy Song—The Rigs O’ Barley Song Composed In August Song Song—Green Grow The Rashes Song—Wha Is That At My Bower-Door 1784 Remorse: A Fragment
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