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Poems and Songs of Robert Burns — Robert Burns

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns

Robert Burns

  • Poetry
  • Book language: English
  • 1008 pages

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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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. POEMS AND SONGS OF ROBERT BURNS
  2. Preface
  3. 1771 - 1779
  4. Song—Handsome Nell1
  5. Song—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
  6. Song—I Dream’d I Lay
  7. Song—In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
  8. Tragic Fragment
  9. Tarbolton Lasses, The
  10. Montgomerie’s Peggy
  11. Ploughman’s Life, The
  12. 1780
  13. Ronalds Of The Bennals, The
  14. Song—Here’s To Thy Health
  15. Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The1
  16. Song—Bonie Peggy Alison
  17. Song—Mary Morison
  18. 1781
  19. Winter: A Dirge
  20. Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
  21. Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
  22. First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The
  23. Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
  24. Stanzas, On The Same Occasion
  25. 1782
  26. Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
  27. Raging Fortune—Fragment Of Song
  28. Impromptu—“I’ll Go And Be A Sodger”
  29. Song—“No Churchman Am I”
  30. A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge

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