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The works of Allan Ramsay

edited by Burns Martin ... and John W. Oliver [... and Alexander M. Kinghorn ... and Alexander Law]
Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)

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VOL. I.—(Poems: 1721)
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VOL. II.—(Poems: 1728)
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VOL. III.—(Poems: Miscellaneous and Uncollected)
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PART I. Poems published during Ramsay's Lifetime.
  
TO MR. LAW. [1720]
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A Tale of Three Bonnets: 1722
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From Fables and Tales [1722]
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From The British Journal: March 9, 1723
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From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1724–29]
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SONGS INSERTED IN THE GENTLE SHEPHERD [1725–34]
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SANG I. The wawking of the Faulds
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SANG II. Fy gar rub her o'er with Strae
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SANG III. Polwart on the Green.
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SANG IV. O dear Mother, what shall I do?
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SANG V. How can I be sad on my Wedding-Day.
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SANG VI. Nansy's to the Green Wood gane.
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SANG VII. Cald Kale in Aberdeen
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SANG VIII. Mucking of Geordy's Byer.
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SANG X. Winter was cauld, and my Cleathing was thin.
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SANG XII. Happy Clown
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SANG XIII. Leith-Wynd.
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SANG XIV. O'er Bogie.
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SANG XV. Wat ye wha I met Yestreen.
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SANG XVI. Kirk wad let me be.
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SANG XVII. Woes my heart that we shou'd sunder.
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SANG XVIII. Tweed-side.
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SANG XIX. Bush aboon Traquair.
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SANG XX. Bony gray ey'd Morn.
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From The Tea-Table Miscellany [1729]
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From The Evergreen [1724]
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From Poems in English and Latin on the Archers and Royal Company of Archers [1726]
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From The Caledonian Mercury: July 12, 1726.
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From Poems [1729]
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From The Echo, or Edinburgh Weekly Journal: 29th January, 1729
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From The Scarborough Miscellany: 1732.
  
ADDRESS of Thanks from the Society of Rakes. [1735]
  
EPISTLE to the Reverend Philosarchus Minister of the Kirk of Scotland, occasioned by his late Essay, proving the Lawfulness of FORNICATION.
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From The Caledonian Mercury, August 2, 1736
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From The Caledonian Mercury, November 8, 1736
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From The Scots Magazine, October, 1741
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PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.
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VOL. IV.—(Poems not hitherto collected: Poems attributed to Ramsay)

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[In Praise of Scottish Ladies]

O Climate happy sweet & Rare
Blest with Lovely constant Fair
whose Beautyous forms in Shapes & faces
their smiles their tuneful tongues & Graces
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the Nations of the Earth excell a'
from China West to Portabella
from Lapland coast where witches Dance
to capes of Horn & Bon Esprance
mongst whom like the first orb of Light
the Lovely Hartford Glances Bright
whose numerous beautys as the Spring
Invite the muses all to sing
Charlot & Susan charming Twain
Pride and Boast of Glota's Plain
Sisters each with seraphick. . . .
[_]

(The rest obliterated by damp)


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