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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson

Burns, Robert (1759-1796)

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TO THE REV. JOHN M'MATH

TO DAVIE

TO JOHN KENNEDY, DUMFRIES HOUSE

TO GAVIN HAMILTON, ESQ., MAUCHLINE

TO MR. M'ADAM OF CRAIGEN-GILLAN

REPLY TO AN INVITATION

TO DR. MACKENZIE

TO JOHN KENNEDY

TO WILLIE CHALMERS' SWEETHEART

TO AN OLD SWEETHEART

EXTEMPORE TO GAVIN HAMILTON

REPLY TO A TRIMMING EPISTLE RECEIVED FROM A TAILOR

TO MAJOR LOGAN

TO THE GUIDWIFE OF WAUCHOPE HOUSE

TO WM. TYTLER, ESQ., OF WOODHOUSELEE

TO MR. RENTON OF LAMERTON

TO MISS ISABELLA MACLEOD

TO SYMON GRAY

TO MISS FERRIER

SYLVANDER TO CLARINDA

TO CLARINDA

TO HUGH PARKER

TO ALEX. CUNNINGHAM

TO ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ., OF FINTRY

IMPROMPTU TO CAPTAIN RIDDELL

REPLY TO A NOTE FROM CAPTAIN RIDDELL

TO JAMES TENNANT OF GLENCONNER

TO JOHN M'MURDO

SONNET TO ROBERT GRAHAM, ESQ. OF FINTRY

EPISTLE TO DR. BLACKLOCK

TO A GENTLEMAN WHO HAD SENT A NEWSPAPER, AND OFFERED TO CONTINUE IT FREE OF EXPENSE

TO PETER STUART

TO JOHN MAXWELL, ESQ. OF TERRAUGHTIE

TO WILLIAM STEWART

INSCRIPTION TO MISS GRAHAM OF FINTRY

REMORSEFUL APOLOGY

TO COLLECTOR MITCHELL

TO COLONEL DE PEYSTER

TO MISS JESSIE LEWARS

INSCRIPTION

THEATRICAL PIECES

POLITICAL PIECES

THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY

III.

IV.

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TO SYMON GRAY

I

Symon Gray, you're dull to-day!
Dullness with redoubled sway
Has seized the wits of Symon Gray.

II

Dear Symon Gray, the other day
When you sent me some rhyme,
I could not then just ascertain
Its worth for want of time;

III

But now to-day, good Mr. Gray,
I've read it o'er and o'er:
Tried all my skill, but find I'm still
Just where I was before.

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IV

We auld wives' minions gie our opinions,
Solicited or no;
Then of its fauts my honest thoughts
I'll give—and here they go:

V

Such damn'd bombást no age that's past
Can show, nor time to come;
So, Symon dear, your song I'll tear,
And with it wipe my bum.