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Robert Burns Life and Times

Burns Works
in
Chronogical Order

1787 - 1790


1787
Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture - sent to the Earl of Glencairn, 13th January
And Maun I Still on Menie Doat
To Miss Logan January 1st
Rantin, Rovin Robin about 9th April
Elegy On The Death of Robert Ruisseaux
Inscription for The Headstone of Fergusson The Poet
Apostrophe to Fergusson around 19th March
Lines on Fergusson The Poet
Epigram Addressed To An Artist
On Elphinstone's Translation of Martial
To the Guidwife Of Wauchope House - March
To Miss Isabella MacLeod - 16th March
Epigrams
To Mr. McAdam, of Craigen-Gillan - about March
Prologue
Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee
Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church - May
Lament for the Absence of William Creech, Publisher
To Symon Gray - May
Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton - about 18th May
Bonie Dundee
Epigram at Roslin Inn
The Bard at Inverary - 24th June
Elegy on The Death of Sir James Hunter Blair - July
To Miss Ferrier
On the Death of John McLeod, Esq
You Wild Mossy Mountains
Highland Harry Back Again - after August
Impromptu On Carron Iron Works 26th August
Written by Somebody on the Window - on or about 27th August
Epitaph For William Michie
Strathallan's Lament
Verses Written With A Pencil
The Birks of Aberfeldie - 20th August
Amang The Trees
The Humble Petition of Bruar Water - about 2nd September
A Highland Welcome .- 2nd September
Lines on The Falls of Fyers - Wednesday 5th September
Castle Gordon - after September
The Young Highland Rover - after September
Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary
Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
Blythe Was She - about October
On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch Turit
My Peggy's Charms - sent to Margaret Chalmers, October
Where, Braving Angry Winter's Storms - about October
The Banks Of The Devon
Epitaph for William Nicol, Of the High School, Edinburgh
Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
On The Death of Lord President Dundas
Sylvander to Clarinda
The Bonie Lass of Albanie
Birthday Ode For 31st December 1787
The Bonie Moor-Hen
On Johnson's Opinion of Hampden
Anna, Thy Charms
1788
On Being Appointed to an Excise Division
To the Weaver's Gin You Go
I'm O'er Young To Marry Yet
McPherson's Farewell
Stay, My Charmer
My Hoggie
Jumpin John
Up In The Morning Early
The Dusty Miller
Duncan Davison
Where Helen Lies
Weary Fa' You, Duncan Gray
The Ploughman
Hey Tutti Taitie
Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
Musing on The Roaring Ocean
To Daunton Me
Interpolation
O'er the Water to Charlie
Up and Warn A' Willie
A Rose-Bud by my Early Walk
Newly sprung in June
Revision For Clarinda - January
And I'll Kiss Thee Yet Bonie Peggy Alison
Rattlin, Roarin Willie
Clarinda, Mistress of my Soul
The Winter It Is Past
Verses To Clarinda - shortly before March
The Chevalier's Lament - sent to Robert Cleghorn, 31st March
Epitaph On Robert Muir
Epistle To Hugh Parker
Verses In Friars' Carse Hermitage - June
Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage, On Nithside
The Fete Champetre
To Alex Cunningham - 27th July
Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet - sent to James Johnson, August
Of A' the Airts the Wind Can Blow
O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
The Banks of Nith - 20th August
Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry - sent 10th September
The Day Returns
The Blue-Eyed Lassie
A Mother's Lament - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 27th September
The Lazy Mist - sent to Dr. Blacklock, 15th November
Whistle O'er the Lave O't
Tam Glen - sent to Johnson, 15th November
To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J- - -n
Sketch For An Elegy - 1788 revised 1790
Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
Auld Lang Syne
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Commemorative Stamps, Should Auld Acquaintance be Forgot, bottom right
Epitaph For John Hunter, Writer In Ayr - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 7th December,
The Silver Tassie
Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs Oswald of Auchencruive - January
Versicles on Sign Posts - end of December
Pegasus At Wanlockhead - Winter
A Sonnet upon Sonnets
The Cares O Love
Louis, What Reck I by Thee
1789
New Year's Day - 1st January, 1789
Elegy On The Year 1788 - 1st January
Robin Shure In Hairst
Come Rede me, Dame - from January
Caledonia - sent to Johnson 23rd January
At Whigham's Inn, Sanquhar
To William Stewart
In The Kirk of Lamington - possibly late February
Sweet Afton - before 5th January
Ode on the Departed Regency Bill - March
The Wounded Hare - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 21st April
A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock - April
On John McMurdo, Esq
To John McMurdo, Esq., of Drumlanrig
Inscribed to The Right Hon. C. J. Fox
To Peter Stuart
On the Duchess of Gordon's Reel Dancing - (disclaimed by Burns) 13th April, 1789
Delia - submitted, 18th May
The Kirk's Alarm - Autumn
Sonnet to Robert Graham Esq, Of Fintry - August 10th
The Keekin Glass
Inscription On A Goblet
On Andrew Turner
Kirk and State Excisemen
A Grace Before Dinner
A Grace After Dinner
Willie Brew'd A Peck 0 Maut
The Five Carlins
Election Ballad For Westerha'
To Miss Cruikshank
The Whistle - A Ballad
Answer To An Invitation
Epistle To Dr. Blacklock - 21st October
Thou Lingering Star - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 8th November
On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro Scotland
Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns
I'll Tell You A Tale Of A Life sent to Provost Maxwell of Lochmaben, 20th December
Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries - December
Nithsdale's Welcome Hame
Green Sleeves
1790
To Alexander Findlater - maybe around February
To A Gentleman
Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare - sent to Willie Nicol, 9th February
I Love My Love In Secret
Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
The Taylor Fell Thro The Bed
Ay Waukin, O
Beware O Bonie Ann
My Wife's A Wanton, Wee Thing
Lassie Lie Near Me
The Gardner Wi His Paidle
On A Bank Of Flowers
My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
Cauld Frosty Morning
Jamie, Come Try Me
The Captain's Lady
Johnie Cope
O Dear Minny
Carl, An The King Come
There's A Youth In This City
My Heart's in the Highlands
John Anderson, My Jo
Awa, Whigs Awa
I'll Mak You Be Fain To Follow Me
Kissin My Katie
The White Cockade
Eppie Adair
The Battle Of Sherramuir
Sandy And Jackie
Young Jackie Was The Blythest Lad
Waukrife Minnie
Tho Women's Minds
Killiecrankie
The Campbells Are Coming
Scots Prologue For Mrs. Sutherland
Lament Of Mary Queen of Scots - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 6th June
On Sensibility - sent to Mrs. Dunlop, 9th July
Election Ballad - July
On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
Yestreen I Had a Pint O Wine
Burns Grace At Kirkcudbright
Grace After Meat
Grace Before And After Meat
Godly Girzie
Tam O' Shanter - published April 1791
Tam maun ride


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