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Yearns, longs much.
Yearlings, born in the same
year, coevals.
Year, is used both for singular
and plural years.

Yell, barren, that gives no milk.
Yerk, to lash, to jerk.
Yerkit, jerked, lashed.
Yestreen, yesternight.

Yett, a gate, such as is usually

at the entrance into a farmyard or field.

Yill, ale.
Yird, earth.

Yokin, yoking, a bout.
Yont, beyond.
Yoursel, yourself.
Yowe, a ewe.
Yowie, dimin. of yowe.
Yule, Christmas.

INDEX OF POEMS,

A BARD'S Epitaph, iii. 235

Address, spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night,
Dumfries, ii. 32

Address to Edinburgh, i. 184

Address to the Deil, i. 58

Address to the Shade of Thomson, i. 250

Address to the Toothache, ii. 1

Address to the Unco Guid; or, the Rigidly Righteous, i. 91
Address to Beelzebub, ii. 112

A Farewell, ii. 98

Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent to the Author by a Tailor,
iii. 213

Answer to Verses addressed to the Poet by the Guidwife of
Wauchope House, ii. 61

BRIGS of Ayr, i. 41

CALF, i. 56

Cats like Kitchen, ii. 152

Cotter's Saturday Night, i. 147

DEATH and Dr. Hornbook, i. 33

Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, i. 63

Death of Sir James Hunter Blair, ii. 86

Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq., i. 177

Delia, ii. 85

Despondency, i. 143

Dream, i. 75

EARNEST Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives in
the House of Commons, i. 15

Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson, i. 213

Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux, ii. 60

Elegy on the Death of Peg Nicholson, ii. 125

Elegy on the late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo, ii. 24

Elegy on the Year 1788, ii. 82

Epigram on a noted Coxcomb, ii. 140

Epigram on Francis Grose, iii. 231

Epigram on Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams,

iii. 232

Epigram on a Henpecked Country Squire, iii. 219. 220
Epigram on being neglected by an Innkeeper, iii. 221
Epistle from a Tailor to Burns, iii. 213

Epistle to a Young Friend, i. 169

Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet, i. 133

Epistle to J. Lapraik, i. 187

Epistle to J. Lapraik, i. 193

Epistle to J. Rankine, enclosing some Poems, i. 204

Epistle to R. Graham, Esq. i. 220

Epistle to Hugh Parker, ii. 110

Epistle from Esopus to Maria, ii. 95

Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., ii. 100

Epistle to Major Logan, ii. 104

Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. iii. 234

Epitaph for R. Aiken, Esq., iii. 234

Epitaph for the Author's Father, iii. 236

Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder, iii. 234

Epitaph on a Country Laird, iii. 232

Epitaph on a Henpecked Country Squire, iii. 219

Epitaph on Holy Willie, iii. 210

Epitaph on a Friend, ii. 53

Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic, iii. 233

Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline, iii. 238

Epitaph on John Dove, iii. 237

Epitaph on John Bushby, iii. 237

Epitaph on one Nicknamed the Marquis, iii. 238

Epitaph on Walter S— iii. 239

Epitaph on Wee Johnny, iii. 233

Epitaph on William Nicol, ii. 160

Epitaph on the Poet's Daughter, ii. 108

Epitaph on Gabriel Richardson, ii. 109

Epitaph on Miss Jessy Lewars, ii. 127

Extempore Lines, in Answer to a Card from an intimate Friend
of Burns, wishing him to Spend an Hour at a Tavern, iii. 217
Extempore, on Mr. William Smellie, ii. 42

Extempore in the Court of Session, iii. 229

Extempore, pinned to a Lady's Coach, ii. 154

Extempore to Mr. Syme, on Refusing to Dine with Him, ii. 4.
Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise,

iii. 226.

FIRST Psalm, i. 162

First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm, i. 164

Fragment, ii, 142

Fragments, ii. 155-160

GRACE before Dinner, ii. 58

HALLOWEEN, i. 98

Henpecked Husband, iii. 218

Holy Willie's Prayer, iii. 205
Holy Fair, i. 23

I BURN, I burn, ii. 139

Impromptu, on Mrs. Riddel's Birth-Day, ii. 45
Innocence, ii. 145

Inscription for an Altar to Independence, ii. 42
Inscription on a Goblet, ii. 130

Inscription to the Memory of Fergusson, ii. 57
Interview with Lord Daer, ii. 28

In vain would Prudence, ii. 138

Inventory, in Answer to the Mandate of a Surveyor of the
Taxes, ii. 9

JOLLY Beggars, i. 110

KIRK'S Alarm, (First Version), i. 259

(Second Version), ii. 119

Kirk of Lamington, ii. 129

LAMENT for James, Earl of Glencairn, i. 230

Lament, occasioned by the Unfortunate Issue of a Friend's
Amour, i. 140

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring,
i. 218

Lament, written at a Time when the Poet was about to leave
Scotland, ii. 84

Letter to John Goudie, Kilmarnock, ii. 91

Letter to James Tait, Glenconnor, ii. 92

Liberty. A Fragment, ii. 59

Lines on being asked why God had made Miss Davies so
little, and Mrs. * *
so large, iii. 221

Lines presented to Mrs. Kemble, iii. 227

Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, i. 234

Lines written by Burns, while on his Death Bed, to John
Rankine, iii. 223

Lines written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book, iii. 218
Lines written under the Picture of the celebrated Miss
Burns, iii. 230

Lines written on the window of the Globe Tavern, Dum-
fries, iii. 229

Lines written on a Window at the King's Arms' Tavern,

Dumfries, iii. 228

Lines written on a Bank Note, ii. 134

Loyal Natives' Verses, ii. 135

MAN was made to Mourn, i. 155

Monody on a Lady famed for her Caprice, ii. 43

NATURE'S Law, ii. 150

ODE, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald, i. 211
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire, iii. 227

On a Suicide, ii. 98

On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland, i. 246
On hearing that there was Falsehood in the Rev. Dr. B—'s
very looks, iii. 226

On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr, iii. 231

On Miss Jessy Lewars, ii. 127

On Robert Riddel, ii. 130

On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character, ii. 126
On Stirling, ii. 109

On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, ii. 4

On seeing the Beautiful Seat of Lord Galloway, iii. 224
On the Same, iii. 224

On the Same, iii. 224

On the Death of Burns, by W. Roscoe, Esq., iii. 246

On the Death of Robert Dundas, ii. 116

On the Death of a Lap-Dog, ii. 119

Ordination, i. 51

PETITION of Bruar Water, i. 255

Poem, addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, ii.
49

Poem on Life, addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries,

1796, ii. 51

Poem on Pastoral Poetry, ii. 35

Poor Mailie's Elegy, i. 66

Poverty, iii. 227

Prayer, in the Prospect of Death, i. 159

Prayer, under the Pressure of Violent Anguish, i. 163
Prologue, for Mr. Sutherland's Benefit Night, Dumfries,
ii. 80

Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Ellisland, on New Year's
Eve, ii. 23

Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods on his Benefit Night, ii. 148

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