The Canongate Burns (150 page)

• Painter, To a,
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• Paraphrase of the First Psalm,
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• Passion's Cry,
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• Patriarch, The,
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• Pegasus at Wanlockhead,
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• Perish their Names,
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• Peter Stuart, To,
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• Phillis the Fair,
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• Pinned to Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage,
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• Pitt's Hair-Powder Tax, On Mr.,
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• Ploughman, The,
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• Poem on Pastoral Poetry,
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• Poet's Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter, A,
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• Poetical Inscription for an Altar of Independence,
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• Poor Mailie's Elegy,
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• Posie, The,
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• Prayer, A,
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• Prayer, in the Prospect of Death, A,
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• Prayer: O Thou Dread Power,
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• Pretty Peg,
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• Primrose, The,
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• Prologue,
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• Prologue Spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries,
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• Prose Essay by Burns, A,
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• Prose Introduction to Tam O' Shanter,
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• Rantin Dog, the Daddie o't, The,
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• Rantin Laddie, The,
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• Rattlin, Roarin Willie,
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• Raving Winds around her Blowing,
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• Reading in a Newspaper, the Death of John M'Leod, Esq., On,
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• Red, Red Rose, A,
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• Reel o' Stumpie, The,
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• Remember the Poor,
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• Remorse,
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• Remorseful Apology,
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• Renton of Lamerton, To Mr.,
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• Reply to a Censorious Critic,
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• Reply to Robert Riddell,
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• Reproof, The,
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• Rev. Dr Babington, On,
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• Rev. John M'math, To the,
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• Rights of Woman, The,
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• Rigs o Barley, The,
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• Robert Bruce's Address to His Troops at Bannockburn,
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• Robert Burns and Robert the Bruce,
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• Robert Fergusson – I, On,
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• Robert Fergusson – II, On,
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• Robert Graham of Fintry, Esq., To,
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  ,
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• Robert Riddell, On,
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• Robin Shure in Hairst,
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• Ronalds of the Bennals, The,
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• Rosebud, by My Early Walk, A,
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• Rough Roads, On,
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• Rowin 't in Her Apron, The,
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• Ruin, To,
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• Ruin'd Maid's Complaint, The,
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• Ruined Farmer, The,
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• Rusticity's Ungainly Form,
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• Sae Far Awa,
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• Sandy and Jockie,
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• Saw Ye Bonie Lesley,
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• Scaring Some Water-Fowl in Loch Turit, On,
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• Scotch Bard, On a,
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• Scotch Drink,
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• Scotian Muse, The,
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• Scots Prologue,
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• Scroggam,
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• Seas and Far Away, On the,
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• Second Epistle to Davie,
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• Second Epistle to J. Lapraik,
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• Seeing a Wounded Hare, On,
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• Seeing Miss Fontenelle in a
  
• Favourite Character, On,
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• Seeing the Beautiful Country Seat of Lord Galloway, On,
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• Selkirk Grace, The,
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• Sensibility How Charming,
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• She Says she Lo'es me Best of a',
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• She's Fair and Fause,
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• Shepherd's Wife, The,
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• Sketch for an Elegy,
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• Sketch. New Year's Day,
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• Slave's Lament, The,
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• Sodger's Return, The,
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• Solemn League and Covenant, The,
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• Song of Death, The,
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• Sonnet,
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• Sonnet to Robert Graham of Fintry,
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• Sonnet upon Sonnets, A,
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• Sonnet: On the Death of Robert Riddell Esq. of Glenriddell, April 1794,
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• Sons of old Killie, Ye,
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• Stanzas Written in Prospect of Death,
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• Stay, My Charmer, Can You Leave Me,
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• Strathallan's Lament,
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• Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation,
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• Suicide, On a,
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• Sutor's o' Selkirk, The,
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• Swearing Coxcomb, On a,
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• Sweetest May,
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• Sylvander to Clarinda,
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• Symon Gray, To,
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• Tam Glen,
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• Tam Lin,
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• Tam o' Shanter: A Tale,
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• Tam Samson's Elegy,
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• Tam the Chapman, On,
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• Tarbolton Lasses, The,
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• Taylor, The,
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• Taylor Fell thro' the Bed, The,
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• Thanksgiving for a National Victory, On a,
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• Their Groves o' Sweet Myrtle,
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• Then Guidwife, Count the Lawin,
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• Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary,
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• There Grows a Bonie Brier-Bush,
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• There was a Bonie Lass,
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• There was a Lad,
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• There was Twa Wives,
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• There'll Never be Peace till Jamie Comes Hame,
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• There's a Youth in this City,
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• There's News Lasses News,
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• There's Three True Gude Fellows,
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• Thine Am I, My Chloris Fair,
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• Third Epistle to J. Lapraik,
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• Tho' Women's Minds,
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• Thou Gloomy December,
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• Thou Hast Left Me Ever,
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• Thou Lingering Star,
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• Though Cruel Fate,
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• Tibbie Dunbar,
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• Tibbie Fowler,
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• Toadeater – 1, The,
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• Toadeater – 2, The,
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• Toast, The,
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• Tragic Fragment,
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• Tree of Liberty, The,
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• Trogger, The,
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• True Loyal Natives, Ye,
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• Twa Dogs: A Tale, The,
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• Twa Herds: An Unco Mournfu' Tale, The,
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• 'Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e,
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• Untitled,
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• Up and Warn a' Willie,
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• Up in the Morning Early,
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• Verses Intended to be Written Below a Noble Earl's Picture,
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• Verses Written on a Window of the Inn at Carron,
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• Verses Written upon a Blank Leaf,
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• Verses Written with a Pencil,
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• Versicles on Sign-Posts,
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• Vision, The,
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• Vowels: a Tale, The,
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• Wae is My Heart,
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• Walter Riddell, Esq., On Mr.,
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• Wandering Willie,
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• Wat Ye Wha that Lo'es Me,
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• Waukrife Minnie, A,
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• Weary Fa' You, Duncan Gray,
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• Weary Pund o' Tow, The,
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• Weaver's Gin ye Go, To the,
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• Wee Johnie, On,
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• Wee Willie Gray,
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• Wha is that at my Bower Door?,
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• Wha'll Mow Me Now?,
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• What Can a Young Lassie do wi' an Auld Man,
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• What Will I do Gin my Hoggie Die,
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• When First I Saw Fair Jeanie's Face,
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• When Guilford Good,
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• When She Cam Ben, She Bobbed,
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• Where Helen Lies,
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• Where Wit May Sparkle –,
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• Where, Braving Angry Winter's Storms,
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• Whistle o'er the Lave o't,
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• Whistle, The,
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• White Cockade, The,
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• Why Should Na Poor Folk Mowe,
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• Why Should We Idly Waste Our Prime,
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• Why, Tell Thy Lover,
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• Will Ye Go to the Indies, My Mary,
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• William Creech, On,
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• William Simson, Ochiltree, To,
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• William Smellie, On,
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• William Stewart, To,
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• Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut,
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• Willie Chalmers' Sweetheart, To,
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• Willie Wastle,
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• Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?,
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• Winter it is Past, The,
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• Winter Night, A,
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• Winter, a Dirge,
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• Wm. Graham of Mossknowe, On,
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• Wren's Nest, The,
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• Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage,
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• Written under the Portrait of Miss Burns,
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• Written with a Pencil Standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness,
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• Yestreen I Had a Pint o' Wine,
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• Yon Rosy Brier,
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• Yon Wild Mossy Mountains,
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• You're Welcome, Willie Stewart,
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• Young Highland Rover, The,
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• Young Jamie,
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• Young Jessie,
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• Young Jockie was the Blythest Lad,
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• Young Peggy,
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• Your Friendship,
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Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,

To think how many counsels sweet,

How mony lengthen'd sage advices,

The husband frae the wife despises!

‘To select and arrange what ought to be published of Burns's will be no easy task, when you consider the variety of taste and opinions which obtain among men and the necessity there is for the strictest delicacy being ever kept in view. His poetry and letters were so often blended with Religion, Politics, Love, and Bawdry that the greatest care must be taken to render his thoughts and opinions consistent.'

Alexander Cunningham: The Syme-Cunningham Correspondence,
The Burns Chronicle
, 1938, XIII, p. 43.

‘… the editing of his works was, for a full century after his death, in the hands of men temperamentally unfitted to sympathise with certain phases of his character, and incapable of frank and objective presentation of facts of which they disapproved.'

Professor J. De Lancey Ferguson,
The Letters of Robert
Burns
, p. xxxix, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1931.