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The Poetry of Robert Burns
Edited by William Ernest Henley and Thomas F. Henderson
Burns, Robert (1759-1796)
[epigraph]
[dedication]
I.
Volume I
2.
Volume II
THE JOLLY BEGGARS
SATIRES AND VERSES
NOTES AND EPISTLES
THEATRICAL PIECES
POLITICAL PIECES
THE DEAN OF THE FACULTY
MISCELLANIES
FRAGMENTS
EPIGRAMS
GRACES
EPITAPHS
ON JAMES GRIEVE, LAIRD OF BOGHEAD, TARBOLTON
ON WM. MUIR IN TARBOLTON MILL
ON JOHN RANKINE
ON TAM THE CHAPMAN
ON HOLY WILLIE
ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER
ON A WAG IN MAUCHLINE
ON ROBERT FERGUSSON
ADDITIONAL STANZAS
FOR WILLIAM NICOL
FOR MR. WILLIAM MICHIE
FOR WILLIAM CRUICKSHANK, A.M.
ON ROBERT MUIR
ON A LAP-DOG
MONODY
FOR MR. WALTER RIDDELL
ON A NOTED COXCOMB
ON CAPT. LASCELLES
ON A GALLOWAY LAIRD
ON WM. GRAHAM OF MOSSKNOWE
ON JOHN BUSHBY OF TINWALD DOWNS
ON A SUICIDE
ON A SWEARING COXCOMB
ON AN INNKEEPER NICKNAMED ‘THE MARQUIS’
ON GRIZZEL GRIMME
FOR GABRIEL RICHARDSON
ON THE AUTHOR
III.
Volume III
IV.
VOLUME IV
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The Poetry of Robert Burns
PINNED TO MRS. WALTER RIDDELL'S CARRIAGE
If
you rattle along like your mistress's tongue,
Your speed will out-rival the dart;
But, a fly for your load, you'll break down on the road,
If your stuff be as rotten's her heart.
The Poetry of Robert Burns