.
Robert Burns Life and Times

Burns Works
in
Chronogical Order

1794 - 1796


1794
To Miss Graham Of Fintry - sent 31st January
Monody - June
Wilt Thou be my Dearie?
Sonnet on the Death of Robert Riddell
Inscription at Friars' Carse Hermitage
Here is the Glen - sent to Thomson, about May
Pinned to Mrs Walter Riddell's Carriage
On hearing it Asserted Falsehood
Ye true loyal Natives
Ode for General Washington's Birthday - 25th June
Epitaph for Mr Walter Riddell
My Luve is Like a Red, Red Rose - first published April
Till a' the seas gang dry
On the Seas and Far Away
To Dr Maxwell
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
Sae Flaxen were her Ringlets
On a Swearing Coxcomb
On a Suicide
On an Innkeeper Nicknamed 'The Marquis'
On John Bushby, Esq, Tinwald Downs
On Captain Lascelles
On Wm. Graham, Esq, Of Mossknowe
Epigram at Brownhill Inn
Your Welcome, Willie Stewart
Lovely Polly Stewart
O, Saw You My Dear, My Philly - sent to Thomson, Autumn
How Lang and Dreary is the Night sent to Thomson, 19th October
How Long And Dreary is the Night - second version
Let Not Women e'er Complain - sent to Thomson, 19 October
The Winter of Life - sent to Thomson, 19 October
Sleep'st Thou - sent to Thomson, 19 October
On Seeing Mrs Kemble In Yarico
To the Honorable Mr B. Maule of Panmure, On his High Phaeton - sent to Mrs Dunlop, 29th October
The Charming Month of May - sent to Thomson, November
Lassie Wi the Lint-White Locks - sent to Thomson, November
Ah, Chloris
Philly And Willy
Canst thou leave me Thus, my Katie? - I9th-2Oth November
Behold, My Love, How Green the Groves
Contented wi little and Cantie wi Mair - 18th November
My Nanie's Awa - sent to George Thomson, 9th December
1795
Dumfries Epigrams - group of seven Epigrams, 1794-95
On Chloris
Ode to Spring sent to G. Thomson, January
A Man's a Man For a' That - sent to Thomson, January
Craigieburn Wood - Winter
Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat? probable March
O. Let Me in this ae Night - completed February
From Esopus to Maria
Epigram on Miss Jean Scott - February
O, Wat Ye Wha's in Yon Town? - 7th February
On Chloris Being Ill - sent to Maria Riddell, March
Epitaph for Mr W Cruikshank
Ballads On Mr. Heron's Election, 1795 (4 Ballads) - The fourth written May-June, 1796
To the Woodlark - sent to Thompson, April
Their Groves O Sweet Myrtle - sent to Thomson, April
Twas na her Bonie Blue e'e
How Cruel Are The Parents
Mark Yonder Pomp - sent to Thomson, May
O, Lay thy Loof in Mine, Lass
Address to the Toothache - May-June
Forlorn My Love, No Comfort Near - sent to Thomson, June
Now Spring has Clad the Grove in Green - completed by 3rd August
The Braw Wooer - sent to Thomson, 3rd July
Why, Why Tell thy Lover - sent to Thomson, 3rd July
Inscription for an Altar of Independence - about July
Inscription - sent to Alexander Cunningham, 3rd August
O, This is no my ain Lassie
O, Bonie was yon Rosy Brier - sent to Maria Riddell and A. Cunningham, Early August
O, That's the Lassie O My Heart - Probably August
To John Syme of Ryedale
Apology for Declining an Invitation to Dine - December
On Mr Pitt's Hair-Powder Tax
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Bob O Dunblane - sent to Johnson
To Collector Mitchell
1796
The Dean of The Faculty - composed after 12th January
A Lass wi a Tocher
Epistle to Colonel De Peyster
Here's a Health to ane I lo'e Dear - sent to Thomson, April
Versicles to Jessie Lewars
Inscription to Miss Jessie Lewars
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Fairest Maid on Devon Banks sent to Thomson from Brow 12th July
Remorseful Apology
Lines Written on Windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
The Toadeater

The following fifty one Songs are believed to date from the last three years of the Poet's life and were published posthumously in the Scots Musical Museum of 1796 and 1803

The Lovely Lass o' Inverness
As I Stood by Yon Roofless Tower
The Lass o' Ecclefechan
The Wren's Nest
O an ye were Dead Guideman
Tam Lin
Had I the Wyte?
Comin thro the Rye
The Rowin't in her Apron
Charlie, He's My Darling
The Cooper O Cuddy
Leezie Lindsay
For The Sake O Somebody
The Cardin o't, The Spinnin o't
Sutors O Selkirk
Tibbie Fowler
There's Three True Gude Fellows
The Lass That Made the Bed to me
The Reel o' Stumpie
I'll Ay Ca' in by yon Town
The Rantin Laddie
O May, thy Morn
As I Cam O'er The Cairney Mount
Highland Laddie
The Highland Balou
Bannocks O Bear Meal
Wae is my Heart
Here's his Health in Water
Gude Wallace
The Auld Man's Mare's Dead
The Taylor
There Grows a Bonie Brier-Bush
Here's to thy Health
It was a' for our Rightfu King
The Highland Widow's Lament
O' Steer Her up an Haud her Gaun
Wee Willie Gray
Gude'en to your Kimmer
O' Ay my wife she Dang me
Scroggam
O Guid Ale Comes
My Lord a-hunting he is Game
Sweetest May
Jockie's Ta'en the Parting Kiss
Bonie Peg-A-Ramsay
Over Sea, Over Shore
There's News, Lasses, News
O That I had Ne'er been Married
The German Lairdie
Epitaph For Hugh Logan Of Logan
Muirland Meg
The Patriarch
The Trogger
The Jolly Gauger
Wha'll Mow Me Now?
O Saw ye my Maggie
Gie the Lass her Fairin
The Book-Worms
On Marriage
Here's a Bottle
Her Flowing Locks
A Tale
The Henpecked Husband
On a Dog of Lord Eglinton's
Epitaph
Broom Besoms
Now Health Forsakes that Angel Face
Pretty Peg
When First I Saw
Sweet are the Banks
Open the Door to me
Altho he has left me
No Cold Approach
Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
Young Jamie, Pride Of a' The Plain
The Witch of Dundrum



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