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The songs and poems of Robert Tannahill

With biography, illustrations, and music

Tannahill, Robert (1774-1810)

TANNAHILL'S SONGS.

BURNS ANNIVERSARY ODES, ETC., BY TANNAHILL.

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TANNAHILL'S POEMS.

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BAUDRONS AND THE HEN BIRD.

THE AMBITIOUS MITE.

THE PARNASSIAD.

CONNEL AND FLORA.

PROLOGUE TO THE GENTLE SHEPHERD.

WILL MACNEIL'S ELEGY.

SONNET TO SINCERITY.

THE OLD BEGGAR.

ON ALEXANDER WILSON'S EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.

THE POOR BOWLMAN'S REMONSTRANCE.

THE PLUNKIN WEDDIN'.

THE RECRUITING SERVICE DRUM.

PRAYER UNDER AFFLICTION.

THE FILIAL VOW.

ODE TO JEALOUSY.

THE TRIFLER'S SABBATH-DAY.

STANZAS. WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL ON THE GRAVESTONE OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.

THE HAUNTET WUD.

ODE. IN IMITATION OF PETER PINDAR (DR. WOLCOT).

ASSUMED SANCTITY.

THE BACCHANALIANS.

MODE FOR ATTAINING A CHARACTER.

THE GUINEA NOTE.

THE MAN OF CHARACTER.

SILLER STANDS FOR SENSE.

SUCCESSOR TO OLD CHARON.

PARODY ON “LULLABY.”

THE PORTRAIT OF GUILT:

LINES WRITTEN ON READING “CAMPBELL'S PLEASURES OF HOPE.”

ON A FLATTERER.

WRITTEN ON SEEING A SPIDER DART OUT UPON A FLY.

ON SEEING A FOP PASS AN OLD BEGGAR.

WRITTEN WITH A PENCIL IN A TAP-ROOM.

A RHYMING RIDDLE.

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Some folks there are of such behaviour,
They 'll cringe themselves into your favour,
And when you think their friendship staunch is,
They 'll tear your character to inches:
T' enforce this truth as well 's I 'm able,
Please, reader, to peruse a fable.