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The Poetry of Robert Burns

Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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Volume I
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Volume II
  
THE JOLLY BEGGARS
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SATIRES AND VERSES
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NOTES AND EPISTLES
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THEATRICAL PIECES
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POLITICAL PIECES
  
THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY
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MISCELLANIES
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FRAGMENTS
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EPIGRAMS
  
EXTEMPORE IN THE COURT OF SESSION
  
AT ROSLIN INN
  
TO AN ARTIST
  
THE BOOK-WORMS
  
ON ELPHINSTONE'S TRANSLATION OF MARTIAL
  
ON JOHNSON'S OPINION OF HAMPDEN
  
UNDER THE PORTRAIT OF MISS BURNS
  
ON MISS AINSLIE IN CHURCH
  
AT INVERARAY
  
AT CARRON IRONWORKS
  
ON SEEING THE ROYAL PALACE AT STIRLING IN RUINS
  
ADDITIONAL LINES AT STIRLING
  
REPLY TO THE THREAT OF A CENSORIOUS CRITIC
  
A HIGHLAND WELCOME
  
AT WHIGHAM'S INN SANQUHAR
  
VERSICLES ON SIGN-POSTS
  
ON MISS JEAN SCOTT
  
ON CAPTAIN FRANCIS GROSE
  
ON BEING APPOINTED TO AN EXCISE DIVISION
  
ON MISS DAVIES
  
ON A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY SEAT
  
THE TYRANT WIFE
  
AT BROWNHILL INN
  
THE TOADEATER
  
IN LAMINGTON KIRK
  
THE KEEKIN GLASS
  
AT THE GLOBE TAVERN, DUMFRIES
  
YE TRUE LOYAL NATIVES
  
ON COMMISSARY GOLDIE'S BRAINS
  
IN A LADY'S POCKET BOOK
  
AGAINST THE EARL OF GALLOWAY
  
ON THE SAME
  
ON THE SAME
  
ON THE SAME, ON THE AUTHOR BEING THREATENED WITH VENGEANCE
  
ON THE LAIRD OF LAGGAN
  
ON MARIA RIDDELL
  
ON MISS FONTENELLE
  
KIRK AND STATE EXCISEMEN
  
ON THANKSGIVING FOR A NATIONAL VICTORY
  
PINNED TO MRS. WALTER RIDDELL'S CARRIAGE
  
TO DR. MAXWELL
  
TO THE BEAUTIFUL MISS ELIZA J---N
  
ON CHLORIS
  
TO THE HON. WM. R. MAULE OF PANMURE
  
ON SEEING MRS. KEMBLE IN YARICO
  
ON DR. BABINGTON'S LOOKS
  
ON ANDREW TURNER
  
THE SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT
  
TO JOHN SYME OF RYEDALE
  
ON A GOBLET
  
APOLOGY TO JOHN SYME
  
ON MR. JAMES GRACIE
  
AT FRIARS CARSE HERMITAGE
  
FOR AN ALTAR OF INDEPENDENCE
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VERSICLES TO JESSIE LEWARS
  
ON MARRIAGE
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GRACES
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EPITAPHS
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Volume III
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VOLUME IV

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ON THANKSGIVING FOR A NATIONAL VICTORY

Ye hypocrites! are these your pranks?
To murder men, and give God thanks?
Desist for shame! Proceed no further:
God won't accept your thanks for Murther.
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