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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.
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PART II. Poems in manuscript or posthumously published.
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(1) Poems for which dates can be assigned.
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(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
  
On Flavia's Fan
  
[CHLOE AND DAMON]
  
[A Compliment]
  
Banks of Forth
  
To A fa[i]r Quaker in [the] Dumps
  
[A Morning Song]
  
[A Forsaken Lover]
  
[Fragment]
  
[A Medley]
  
[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
  
[Fragment]
  
[Fragment]
  
[Fragment]
  
[ON JOHN NORIE]
  
[Contentment]
  
THE SMUGLERS
  
[Fragment]
  
[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]
  
[Fragment]
  
[Fragment]
  
[Crambo]
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VOL. IV.—(Poems not hitherto collected: Poems attributed to Ramsay)

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[Fragment]

[You only You have the Ascendant gain'd]

You only You have the Ascendant gain'd
oer all my Joys and Hiden I've mentaind
A civel war between myself and me
between base custom and true love to Thee
false force of fashion poor unworthy Cause
which binds our Bashfull Sex down to its Laws
the hated bondage I Shake off and must
or vent my Love or blended be with dust
Then hast thee Sovraign of my Pulse and breath
And give me joy & Life or Scorn and Death
Ah yet I Blush Attackd on either Side
between my Inate Modesty and pride
I've said enoug [sic] few words in Love are best
when first we meet my Looks shall speak the rest
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