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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)

VOL. I.—(Poems: 1721)

II.

VOL. II.—(Poems: 1728)

III.

VOL. III.—(Poems: Miscellaneous and Uncollected)

PART I. Poems published during Ramsay's Lifetime.

II.

PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.

(1) Poems for which dates can be assigned.

(2) Poems for which dates have not been established.

Spoke to a Chapin Stowp

The Ingenious and Entertaining Interlocutory of The Reverend Presbytry of Inverness

[A PRAYER]

A Note of a Papist's Preaching

[A Reply to Critics]

[Defiance of a Critic]

[Ane Epitaph]

[An Epigram]

On Allexr Mitchell Butler to the Earl of Wigtoun

[To a Painter]

[Leap Year]

[Epigram]

The Hand preferd to the Hat a Epigrame

[Old Age]

[Unrepentant]

[Cards and Politics]

To a Gentlman who would have me always to write Epigrams

[The Dying Parishioner]

[Friendship]

THE DISTRESS AND COMPLAINT OF MUSTAPHA FOR LOSS OF HIS FUR

THE TYKES TOOLY

THE BROAD HINT CUNNINGLY ANSWERD

BABBAND AND TITTYPOW

AN ELEGY ON MR. SAMUEL CLERK RUNNING STATIONER

To A fa[i]r Quaker in [the] Dumps

[In Praise of Scottish Ladies]

[An Evening Frolic]

THE VIRTUES OF SCOBIE WELLS

[TO THE EARL OF DALHOUSIE]

[TO SIR WILLIAM BENNET OF MARLEFIELD]

Spoken to Aeolus, in the House of Marlefield, on the Night of a violent Wind.

[TO SAUNDERS WOOD]

[The Function of Satiric Poetry]

[A Fragment of an Epistle]

[With a Gift of Books]

[To the Lovely Lechmere]

[To Chloe]

[A Poem in Honour of the Return of the Sons of Sir William Bennet of Marlefield]

A PASTORAL EPITHALIUM

[A Dialogue]

[On the Death of his daughter, Christy]

[Fragment]

ON THE MARRIAGE OF Mr BULL PREACHER AND Mrs MARY ------

The Last Speech just before he hangd himself of Caleb Bailey who was Blawn Blind Breaking doun with Gun Pouder some curious Remains of Celtik Antiquity at Abery to mend a Park dike

[Translation of Horace: Book I, Ode IV, lines 15–20]

[Translation of Horace: Book I, Ode V]

[Translation of Horace: Book I, Ode VI]

Ode 7th

[To a Noble Lord]

On the Birth Day of Mrs M. O. like her self fair & serene

[Fragment]

[Crambo]

IV.

VOL. IV.—(Poems not hitherto collected: Poems attributed to Ramsay)

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[With a Gift of Books]

Madam please to accept this small
yet blyth diverting gift
that's ever ready on a call
to set our dumps a drift

for every thing ther is a Time
says the wise Preacheing King
wha sang the Best, then its no crime,
but duty, aft to sing

Mirth firms our health & gives a shine
to Beauty wit [and] sence
& gainst each care makes us repine
an easy sure Defence

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Then madam these colections use
which I have culld with care
I'm still delighted when my muse
finds favour with the fair