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

Imaidiatly we'll a take flight
into the darker shades of Night
as storys gang wi' Ghaists to Roam
in Gloomin pluto's gowsty Dome
Bid fair good day to pleasures syn
of Bonny Lasses and Red wine
Then deem ilk litle care a crime
dare waste an hour of precious Time
and since our Life's sae unko short
enjoy't a'—ye've nae mair for't.
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