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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.

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TO CLARINDA

WITH A PAIR OF WINE-GLASSES

I

Fair Empress of the Poet's soul
And Queen of Poetesses,
Clarinda, take this little boon,
This humble pair of glasses;

II

And fill them up with generous juice,
As generous as your mind;
And pledge them to the generous toast:
‘The whole of human kind!’

III

‘To those who love us!’ second fill;
But not to those whom we love,
Lest we love those who love not us!
A third:—‘To thee and me, love!’