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Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
Ill-fated genius! Heaven-taught Fergusson!
What heart that feels and will not yield a tear,
To think Life's sun did set e'er well begun
To shed its influence on thy bright career.
O why should truest Worth and Genius pine
Beneath the iron grasp of Want and Woe,
While titled knaves and idiot--Greatness shine
In all the splendour Fortune can bestow?
1771 - 1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
- Remorse: A Fragment
- Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton
- Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
- Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend
- Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father
- Ballad On The American War
- Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine
- Epistle To John Rankine
- A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter
- Song--O Leave Novels
- Fragment--The Mauchline Lady
- Fragment--My Girl She's Airy
- The Belles Of Mauchline
- Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
- Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
- Epigram On The Said Occasion
- Another
- On Tam The Chapman
- Epitaph On John Rankine
- Lines On The Author's Death
- Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
- The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
1785
- Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
- Holy Willie's Prayer
- Epitaph On Holy Willie
- Death and Doctor Hornbook
- Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
- Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
- Epistle To William Simson
- Postcript
- One Night As I Did Wander
- Tho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
- Song--Rantin', Rovin' Robin
- Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
- Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
- The Holy Fair
- Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
- Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
- Second Epistle to Davie
- Song--Young Peggy Blooms
- Song--Farewell To Ballochmyle
- Fragment--Her Flowing Locks
- Halloween
- To A Mouse
- Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
- Epitaph For James Smith
- Adam Armour's Prayer
- The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
- Song--For A' That
- Song--Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
- The Cotter's Saturday Night
- Address To The Deil
- Scotch Drink
1786
- The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation
- The Twa Dogs
- The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer
- The Ordination
- Epistle To James Smith
- The Vision
- The Rantin' Dog, The Daddie O't
- Here's His Health In Water
- Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
- The Inventory
- To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
- To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
- To A Louse
- Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More's
- Song, Composed In Spring
- To A Mountain Daisy
- To Ruin
- The Lament
- Despondency: An Ode
- To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,
- Versified Reply To An Invitation
- Song--Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
- Song--My Highland Lassie, O
- Epistle To A Young Friend
- Address Of Beelzebub
- A Dream
- A Dedication
- Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
- The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton
- On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
- Song--Farewell To Eliza
- A Bard's Epitaph
- Epitaph On "Wee Johnie"
- The Lass O' Ballochmyle
- Lines To An Old Sweetheart
- Motto Prefixed To The Author's First Publication
- Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
- Lines Written On A Banknote
- Stanzas On Naething
- The Farewell
- Thomson's Edward and Eleanora
- The Calf
- Nature's Law--A Poem
- Song--Willie Chalmers
- Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor
- The Brigs Of Ayr
- Fragment Of Song
- Epigram On Rough Roads
- Prayer--O Thou Dread Power
- Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr
- Address To The Toothache
- Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer
- Masonic Song
- Tam Samson's Elegy
- Epistle To Major Logan
- Fragment On Sensibility
- A Winter Night
- Song--Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
- Address To Edinburgh
- Address To A Haggis
1787
- To Miss Logan
- Mr. William Smellie--A Sketch
- Song--Bonie Dundee
- Extempore In The Court Of Session
- Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet
- Epistle To Mrs. Scott
- Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture
- The Bonie Moor-Hen
- Song--My Lord A-Hunting
- Epigram At Roslin Inn
- Epigram Addressed To An Artist
- The Book-Worms
- On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams
- Song--A Bottle And Friend
- Epitaph For William Nicol
- Epitaph For Mr. William Michie
- Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
- Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church
- Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
- Note To Mr. Renton Of Lamerton
- Elegy On "Stella"
- The Bard At Inverary
- Epigram To Miss Jean Scott
- On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,
- Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
- Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
- To Miss Ferrier
- Written By Somebody On The Window
- The Poet's Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
- The Libeller's Self-Reproof
- Verses Written With A Pencil
- Song--The Birks Of Aberfeldy
- The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
- Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.
- Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands
- Strathallan's Lament
- Castle Gordon
- Song--Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
- Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary
- The Bonie Lass Of Albany
- On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit
- Blythe Was She
- A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
- Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank
- Song--The Banks Of The Devon
- Braving Angry Winter's Storms
- Song--My Peggy's Charms
- The Young Highland Rover
- Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787
- On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,
- Sylvander To Clarinda
1788
- Love In The Guise Of Friendship
- Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
- Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
- I'm O'er Young To Marry Yet
- To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
- M'Pherson's Farewell
- Stay My Charmer
- Song--My Hoggie
- Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
- Up In The Morning Early
- Hey, The Dusty Miller
- Duncan Davison
- The Lad They Ca'Jumpin John
- Talk Of Him That's Far Awa
- To Daunton Me
- The Winter It Is Past
- The Bonie Lad That's Far Awa
- Verses To Clarinda
- The Chevalier's Lament
- Epistle To Hugh Parker
- Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw
- Song--I Hae a Wife O' My Ain
- Lines Written In Friars'-Carse Hermitage
- To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer
- Song.--Anna, Thy Charms
- The Fete Champetre
- Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
- Song.--The Day Returns
- Song.--O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
- A Mother's Lament
- The Fall Of The Leaf
- I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom
- Auld Lang Syne
- My Bonie Mary
- The Parting Kiss
- Written In Friar's-Carse Hermitage
- The Poet's Progress
- Elegy On The Year 1788
- The Henpecked Husband
- Versicles On Sign-Posts
1789
- Robin Shure In Hairst
- Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
- Pegasus At Wanlockhead
- Sappho Redivivus--A Fragment
- Song--She's Fair And Fause
- Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
- Lines To John M'Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
- Rhyming Reply To A Note From Captain Riddell
- Caledonia--A Ballad
- To Miss Cruickshank
- Beware O' Bonie Ann
- Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
- Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
- A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
- Sketch In Verse
- The Wounded Hare
- Delia, An Ode
- The Gard'ner Wi' His Paidle
- On A Bank Of Flowers
- Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad
- The Banks Of Nith
- Jamie, Come Try Me
- I Love My Love In Secret
- Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
- The Captain's Lady
- John Anderson, My Jo
- My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
- Song--Tam Glen
- Carle, An The King Come
- The Laddie's Dear Sel'
- Whistle O'er The Lave O't
- My Eppie Adair
- On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
- Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
- The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm
- Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents
- Sonnet On Receiving A Favour
- Extemporaneous Effusion
- Song--Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut
- Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
- I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen
- Highland Harry Back Again
- The Battle Of Sherramuir
- The Braes O' Killiecrankie
- Awa' Whigs, Awa'
- A Waukrife Minnie
- The Captive Ribband
- My Heart's In The Highlands
- The Whistle--A Ballad
- To Mary In Heaven
- Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
- The Five Carlins
- Election Ballad For Westerha'
- Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
1790
- Sketch--New Year's Day [1790]
- Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
- Lines To A Gentleman
- Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare
- The Gowden Locks Of Anna
- Song--I Murder Hate
- Gudewife, Count The Lawin
- Election Ballad
- Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
- Verses On Captain Grose
- Tam O' Shanter
- On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
- Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
1791
- Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
- There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
- Song--Out Over The Forth
- The Banks O' Doon--First Version
- The Banks O' Doon--Second Version
- The Banks O' Doon--Third Version
- Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
- Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart
- Craigieburn Wood
- Epigram On Miss Davies
- The Charms Of Lovely Davies
- What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man
- The Posie
- On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain
- Poem On Pastoral Poetry
- Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
- The Gallant Weaver
- Epigram At Brownhill Inn
- Lovely Polly Stewart
- Fragment,--Damon And Sylvia
- Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
- My Eppie Macnab
- Altho' He Has Left Me
- My Tocher's The Jewel
- O For Ane An' Twenty, Tam
- Thou Fair Eliza
- My Bonie Bell
- Sweet Afton
- Address To The Shade Of Thomson
- Nithsdale's Welcome Hame
- Frae The Friends And Land I Love
- Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
- Ye Jacobites By Name
- I Hae Been At Crookieden
- O Kenmure's On And Awa, Willie
- Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty
- Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
- The Song Of Death
- Poem On Sensibility
- The Toadeater
- Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
- The Keekin'-Glass
- A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore
- A Grace After Dinner, Extempore
- O May, Thy Morn
- Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
- Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
- Thou Gloomy December
- My Native Land Sae Far Awa
1792
- I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
- Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
- The Weary Pund O' Tow
- When She Cam' Ben She Bobbed
- Scroggam, My Dearie
- My Collier Laddie
- Sic A Wife As Willie Had
- Lady Mary Ann
- Kellyburn Braes
- The Slave's Lament
- O Can Ye Labour Lea?
- The Deuks Dang O'er My Daddie
- The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman
- The Country Lass
- Bessy And Her Spinnin' Wheel
- Love For Love
- Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
- Fragment Of Song
- I'll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
- My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing
- Highland Mary
- Auld Rob Morris
- The Rights Of Woman
- Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character
- Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
- Duncan Gray
- Here's A Health To Them That's Awa
- A Tippling Ballad
1793
Versicles, A.D. 1793
- The True Loyal Natives
- On Commissary Goldie's Brains
- Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac
- Thanksgiving For A National Victory
- Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney's Victory
- The Raptures Of Folly
- Kirk and State Excisemen
- Extempore Reply To An Invitation
- Grace After Meat
- Grace Before And After Meat
- Impromptu On General Dumourier's Desertion From The French Republican Army
- The Last Time I Came O'er The Moor
- Logan Braes
- Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill
- O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
- Bonie Jean--A Ballad
- Lines On John M'Murdo, ESQ.
- Epitaph On A Lap-Dog
- Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway
- Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan
- Song--Phillis The Fair
- Song--Had I A Cave
- Song--By Allan Stream
- Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad
- Phillis The Queen O' The Fair
- Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
- Dainty Davie
- Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
- Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
- Down The Burn, Davie
- Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
- Where Are The Joys I have Met?
- Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
- Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
- On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday
- My Spouse Nancy
- Address
- Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell
1794
- Remorseful Apology
- Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
- A Fiddler In The North
- The Minstrel At Lincluden
- A Vision
- A Red, Red Rose
- Young Jamie, Pride Of A' The Plain
- The Flowery Banks Of Cree
- Monody
- The Epitaph
- Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage
- Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell
- Epistle From Esopus To Maria
- Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb
- On Capt. Lascelles
- On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe
- On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
- Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
- The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
- Charlie, He's My Darling
- Bannocks O' Bear Meal
- The Highland Balou
- The Highland Widow's Lament
- It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
- Ode For General Washington's Birthday
- Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
- On The Seas And Far Away
- Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes--Second Version
- She Says She Loes Me Best Of A'
- To Dr. Maxwell
- To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J--N
- On Chloris
- On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
- Epigram On A Country Laird
- On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat
- On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood
- On A Suicide
- On A Swearing Coxcomb
- On An Innkeeper Nicknamed "The Marquis"
- On Andrew Turner
- Pretty Peg
- Esteem For Chloris
- Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
- How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
- Inconstancy In Love
- The Lover's Morning Salute To His Mistress
- The Winter Of Life
- Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
- The Charming Month Of May
- Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks
- Dialogue song--Philly And Willy
- Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair
- Farewell Thou Stream
- Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
- My Nanie's Awa
- The Tear-Drop
- For The Sake O' Somebody
Versicles of 1795
- The Solemn League And Covenant
- Lines sent with a Present of a Dozen of Porter.
- Inscription On A Goblet
- Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine
- Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
- Epigram On Mr. James Gracie
- Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
- Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage
- There Was A Bonie Lass
- Wee Willie Gray
- O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
- Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
- O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun
- The Lass O' Ecclefechan
- O Let Me In Thes Ae Night
- Her Answer
- I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town
- O Wat Ye Wha's In Yon Town
- Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election, 1795
- Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
- The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
- The Cooper O' Cuddy
- The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
- Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me
- Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
- Address To The Woodlark
- Song.--On Chloris Being Ill
- How Cruel Are The Parents
- Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
- 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e
- Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
- Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
- Fragment,--Why, Why Tell The Lover
- The Braw Wooer
- This Is No My Ain Lassie
- O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
- Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham
- O That's The Lassie O' My Heart
- Inscription
- Fragment.--Leezie Lindsay
- Fragment.--The Wren's Nest
- News, Lassies, News
- Crowdie Ever Mair
- Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
- Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
- Verses To Collector Mitchell
- Postscript
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