No flowers gaily fpringing, ner lards sweetly singing. Can soothe the sad botom of jovlet's defpair,

BY

ROBERT BURNS:

WITH

AN ACCOUNT OF HIS LIFE,

And Miscellaneous

REMARKS ON HIS WRITINGS.

Containing also

MANY POEMS AND LETTERS,

Not printed in

DOCTOR CURRIE'S EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

"'Neath the green turf, dear Nature's Child;"
Sublime, pathetic, artless, wil,

Of all thy quips and cranks despoir'd,
Cold dest fagy lie!
And many a Youth and Majden mild,
Shall o'er thee sigh !"

RUSHTON.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR THE TRUSTEES OF THE LATE JAMES MORISON,

BY JOHN MOIR, ROYAL BANK CLOSE.

CONTENTS.

VOL. II.

Tam o' Shanter. A Tale

Verses addressed to Miss Cruickshanks
On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq.
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water
On scaring some Water Fowl on Loch-Turit
Written at the Inn at Taymouth
at the Fall of Fyers

On the Birth of a Posthumous Child

The Whistle. A Ballad.

Second Epistle of Davie, a Brother-Poet

SONGS.

43

Song 1. "It was upon a Lammas night”

Song 2. "Now westlin winds and slaught'ring guns" 46

Song 3. "Behind yon hills where Stinchar flows" 49

Song 4. "Green grow the rashes O"

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Song 5. "Again rejoicing Nature sees"

Song 6. "The gloomy night is gathering fast-

Song 7. "From thee, Eliza, I must ̃go”,

Song 9. "The Farewel to the Brethren of St James's

Lodge, Tarbolton"

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Song 10. "No Churchman am I for to ruil and to write" 62

Song 11. "Anna, thy charms my bosom fire"

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Song 12. "Here awa', there awa', wandering Willie" 66

Song 13. "Braw, braw lads on Yarrow braes" 68

Song 14. "There's auld Rob Morris," &c.

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Song 15. "Oh, open the door, some pity to shew"

Song 16. "When wild War's deadly blast was blawn” 72

Song 17. "O stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay"

Song 18. "Here is the glen, and here the bower”

Song 19. "The day returns, my bosom burns”

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Song 20. "O were I on Parnassus' hill"

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Song 21. "How lang and dreary is the night"

Song 22. "Bonny lassie, will ye go, will ye go," &c. 83

Song 23. "Stay, my charmer, can you leave me"

Song 24. "Thickest night o'erhang my dwelling"

Song 25. "Loud blaw the frosty breezes"

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Song 26. "Raving winds around me blowing"

Song 27. "Musing on the roaring ocean"

Song 28. "Blythe, blythe, and merry was she"

Song 29. "A rose-bud by my early walk”

Song 30. "When braving angry winter's storm"

Song 31. "O Tibbie, I ha'e seen the day”

Song 32. "Clarinda, mistress of my soul"

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Song 44: Bonnie geething, cannie wee thing”
Song 45. "An O for ane and twentie, Tam"

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Song 33. "The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill"105

Song 34. Of a' the airts the wind can blaw"

Song 35. "The Catrine woods were yellow seen”

Song 36. "O Willie brew'd a peck o' maut”

Song 37. "I gaed a waefu' gate yestreen"

Song 38. "The Thames flows proudly to the sea”

Song 39. "John Anderson my jo, John”

Song 40 "My heart is a-breaking, dear tittie"

Song 40mekle thinks: my love o' my beauty"

Song 42 Gane is the day, and mirk's the night”

Song 43. What can a young lassie, what shall a

young lassie"

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Song 46. "O leeze me on my spinnin wheel" v.

Song 47. “In summer, when the hay was mawn”

Song 48. "Turn again, thou fair Eliza"

Song 49. "O luve will venture in, where it darena

weel be seen"

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Song 50. "Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon"

Song 51. "Willie Wastle dwalt on Tweed"

Song 52. "Ance mair Ihail thee,thou gloomy December”147

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