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With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham Author: Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham Release Date: June 4, 2006 [EBook #18500] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS *** Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was made using scans of public domain works from the University of Michigan Digital Libraries.) Transcriber’s Note. 1. The hyphenation and accent of words is not uniform throughout the book. No change has been made in this. 2. The relative indentations of Poems, Epitaphs, and Songs are as printed in the original book. -1- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. THE OMPLETE WORKS -2- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. OF OBERT URNS: -3- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. CONTAINING HIS POEMS, -4- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. SONGS, RESPONDENCE. AND -5- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. WITH A NEW LIFE -6- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. OF THE POET, -7- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. AND NOTICES, CRITICAL AND -8- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. IOGRAPHICAL, BY ALLAN -9- The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. NNINGHAM. LEGANTLY LUSTRATED. - 10 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND - 11 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. COMPANY. NEW YORK: J.C. - 12 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. DERBY. 1855 - 13 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. TO RCHIBALD HASTIE, - 14 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. ESQ., MEMBER OF - 15 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. ARLIAMENT FOR PAISLEY THIS - 16 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. EDITION OF THE - 17 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. WORKS AND MEMOIRS OF A - 18 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. GREAT POET, IN - 19 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. WHOSE ENTIMENTS OF FREEDOM HE - 20 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. SHARES, AND WHOSE PICTURES - 21 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. OF SOCIAL AND DOMESTIC - 22 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. LIFE HE LOVES, IS ESPECTFULLY - 23 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. AND RATEFULLY INSCRIBED BY - 24 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. ALLAN UNNINGHAM. [vii] - 25 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. EDICATION. TO THE - 26 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. NOBLEMEN AND ENTLEMEN OF THE - 27 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. ALEDONIAN HUNT. [On the title-page of the second or Edinburgh edition, were these words: “Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, by Robert Burns, printed for the Author, and sold by William Creech, 1787.” The motto of the Kilmarnock edition was omitted; a very numerous list of subscribers followed: the volume was printed by the celebrated Smellie.] My Lords and Gentlemen: A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose highest ambition is to sing in his country’s service, where shall he so properly look for patronage as to the illustrious names of his native land: those who bear the honours and inherit the virtues of their ancestors? The poetic genius of my country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha—at the plough, and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes and rural pleasures of my native soil, in my native tongue; I tuned my wild, artless notes as she inspired. She whispered me to come to this ancient metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my songs under your honoured protection: I now obey her dictates. Though much indebted to your goodness, I do not approach you, my Lords and Gentlemen, in the usual style of dedication, to thank you for past favours: that path is so hackneyed by prostituted learning that honest rusticity is ashamed of it. Nor do I present this address with the venal soul of a servile author, looking for a continuation of those favours: I was bred to the plough, and am independent. I come to claim the common Scottish name with you, my illustrious countrymen; and to tell the world that I glory in the title. I come to congratulate my country that the blood of her ancient heroes still runs uncontaminated, and that from your courage, knowledge, and public[viii] spirit, she may expect protection, wealth, and liberty. In the last place, I come to proffer my warmest wishes to the great fountain of honour, the Monarch of the universe, for your welfare and happiness. - 28 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. When you go forth to waken the echoes, in the ancient and favourite amusement of your forefathers, may Pleasure ever be of your party: and may social joy await your return! When harassed in courts or camps with the jostlings of bad men and bad measures, may the honest consciousness of injured worth attend your return to your native seats; and may domestic happiness, with a smiling welcome, meet you at your gates! May corruption shrink at your kindling indignant glance; and may tyranny in the ruler, and licentiousness in the people, equally find you an inexorable foe! I have the honour to be, With the sincerest gratitude and highest respect, My Lords and Gentlemen, Your most devoted humble servant, ROBERT BURNS. Edinburgh, April 4, 1787. [ix] REFACE. I cannot give to my country this edition of one of its favourite poets, without stating that I have deliberately omitted several pieces of verse ascribed to Burns by other editors, who too hastily, and I think on insufficient testimony, admitted them among his works. If I am unable to share in the hesitation expressed by one of them on the authorship of the stanzas on “Pastoral Poetry,” I can as little share in the feelings with which they have intruded into the charmed circle of his poetry - 29 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. such compositions as “Lines on the Ruins of Lincluden College,” “Verses on the Destruction of the Woods of Drumlanrig,” “Verses written on a Marble Slab in the Woods of Aberfeldy,” and those entitled “The Tree of Liberty.” These productions, with the exception of the last, were never seen by any one even in the handwriting of Burns, and are one and all wanting in that original vigour of language and manliness of sentiment which distinguish his poetry. With respect to “The Tree of Liberty” in particular, a subject dear to the heart of the Bard, can any one conversant with his genius imagine that he welcomed its growth or celebrated its fruit with such “capon craws” as these? “Upo’ this tree there grows sic fruit, Its virtues a’ can tell, man; It raises man aboon the brute, It mak’s him ken himsel’, man. Gif ance the peasant taste a bit, He’s greater than a lord, man, An’ wi’ a beggar shares a mite O’ a’ he can afford, man.” There are eleven stanzas, of which the best, compared with the “A man’s a man for a’ that” of Burns, sounds like a cracked pipkin against the “heroic clang” of a Damascus blade. That it is extant in the handwriting of the poet cannot be taken as a proof that it is his own composition, against the internal testimony of utter want of all the marks by which we know him—the Burns-stamp, so to speak, which is visible on all that ever came from his pen. Misled by his handwriting, I inserted in my former edition of his works an epitaph, beginning “Here lies a rose, a budding rose,” [x] the composition of Shenstone, and which is to be found in the church-yard of Hales-Owen: as it is not included in every edition of that poet’s acknowledged works, Burns, who was an admirer of his genius, had, it seems, copied it with his own hand, and hence my error. If I hesitated about the exclusion of “The Tree of Liberty,” and its three false brethren, I could have no scruples regarding the fine song of “Evan Banks,” claimed and justly for Miss Williams by Sir Walter Scott, or the humorous song called “Shelah O’Neal,” composed by the late Sir Alexander Boswell. When I have stated that I have arranged the Poems, the Songs, and the Letters of Burns, as nearly as possible in the order in which they were written; that I have omitted no piece of either verse or prose which bore the impress of his hand, nor included any by which his high reputation would likely be impaired, I have said all that seems necessary to be said, save that the following letter came too late for insertion in its proper place: it is characteristic and worth a place anywhere. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. - 30 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. TO DR. RCHIBALD LAURIE. Mossgiel, 13th Nov. 1786. Dear Sir, I have along with this sent the two volumes of Ossian, with the remaining volume of the Songs. Ossian I am not in such a hurry about; but I wish the Songs, with the volume of the Scotch Poets, returned as soon as they can conveniently be dispatched. If they are left at Mr. Wilson, the bookseller’s shop, Kilmarnock, they will easily reach me. My most respectful compliments to Mr. and Mrs. Laurie; and a Poet’s warmest wishes for their happiness to the young ladies; particularly the fair musician, whom I think much better qualified than ever David was, or could be, to charm an evil spirit out of a Saul. - 31 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. Indeed, it needs not the Feelings of a poet to be interested in the welfare of one of the sweetest scenes of domestic peace and kindred love that ever I saw; as I think the peaceful unity of St. Margaret’s Hill can only be excelled by the harmonious concord of the Apocalyptic Zion. I am, dear Sir, yours sincerely, Robert Burns. [xi] TABLE OF - 32 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. ONTENTS. PAGE The Life of Robert Burns Preface to the Kilmarnock Edition of 1786 Dedication to the Edinburgh Edition of 1787 xxiii lix vii POEMS. PAGE Winter. A Dirge 61 - 33 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. The Death and dying Words of poor Mailie Poor Mailie’s Elegy First Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet Second Address to the Deil The auld Farmer’s New-year Morning Salutation to his auld Mare Maggie To a Haggis A Prayer under the pressure of violent Anguish A Prayer in the prospect of Death Stanzas on the same occasion A Winter Night Remorse. A Fragment The Jolly Beggars. A Cantata Death and Dr. Hornbook. A True Story The Twa Herds; or, the Holy Tulzie Holy Willie’s Prayer Epitaph to Holy Willie The Inventory; in answer to a mandate by the surveyor of taxes The Holy Fair The Ordination The Calf To James Smith The Vision Halloween Man was made to Mourn. A Dirge To Ruin To John Goudie of Kilmarnock, on the publication of his Essays To J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard. First Epistle To J. Lapraik. Second Epistle To J. Lapraik. Third Epistle 61 62 63 65 65 67 68 69 69 69 70 71 71 76 78 79 80 81 82 84 86 86 88 92 95 96 97 97 99 100 - 34 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. To William Simpson, Ochiltree Address to an illegitimate Child Nature’s Law. A Poem humbly inscribed to G.H., Esq. To the Rev. John M’Math To a Mouse Scotch Drink The Author’s earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch Representatives of the House of Commons Address to the unco Guid, or the rigidly Righteous Tam Samson’s Elegy Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour Despondency. An Ode The Cotter’s Saturday Night The first Psalm The first six Verses of the ninetieth Psalm To a Mountain Daisy Epistle to a young Friend To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church Epistle to J. Rankine, enclosing some Poems On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies The Farewell Written on the blank leaf of my Poems, presented to an old Sweetheart then married A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux Letter to James Tennant of Glenconner On the Birth of a posthumous Child To Miss Cruikshank Willie Chalmers Verses left in the room where he slept To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., recommending a boy 101 103 103 104 105 106 107 110 111 112 113 114 117 118 118 119 120 121 122 123 123 123 125 125 126 126 127 128 128 - 35 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. To Mr. M’Adam, of Craigen-gillan Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent to the Author by a Tailor To J. Rankine. “I am a keeper of the law.” Lines written on a Bank-note A Dream A Bard’s Epitaph The Twa Dogs. A Tale Lines on meeting with Lord Daer Address to Edinburgh Epistle to Major Logan The Brigs of Ayr On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq., of Arniston, late Lord President of the Court of Session On reading in a Newspaper the Death of John M’Leod, Esq. To Miss Logan, with Beattie’s Poems The American War, A fragment The Dean of Faculty. A new Ballad To a Lady, with a Present of a Pair of Drinking-glasses To Clarinda Verses written under the Portrait of the Poet Fergusson Prologue spoken by Mr. Woods, on his Benefit-night, Monday, April 16, 1787 Sketch. A Character To Mr. Scott, of Wauchope Epistle to William Creech The humble Petition of Bruar-Water, to the noble Duke of Athole On scaring some Water-fowl in Loch Turit Written with a pencil, over the chimney-piece, in the parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness To Mr. William Tytler, with the present of the Bard’s picture 129 129 130 130 130 132 132 135 136 137 138 141 141 142 142 143 144 144 144 145 145 145 146 147 148 149 149 150 - 36 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. Written in Friars-Carse Hermitage, on the banks of Nith, June, 1780. First Copy The same. December, 1788. Second Copy To Captain Riddel, of Glenriddel. Extempore lines on returning a Newspaper A Mother’s Lament for the Death of her Son First Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray On the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair Epistle to Hugh Parker Lines, intended to be written under a Noble Earl’s Picture Elegy on the year 1788. A Sketch Address to the Toothache Ode. Sacred to the memory of Mrs. Oswald, of Auchencruive Fragment inscribed to the Right Hon. C.J. Fox On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which a Fellow had just shot To Dr. Blacklock. In answer to a Letter Delia. An Ode To John M’Murdo, Esq. Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Dumfries, 1st January, 1790 Scots Prologue, for Mr. Sutherland’s Benefit-night, Dumfries Sketch. New-year’s Day. To Mrs. Dunlop To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and offered to continue it free of expense The Kirk’s Alarm. A Satire. First Version The Kirk’s Alarm. A Ballad. Second Version Peg Nicholson On Captain Matthew Henderson, a gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from Almighty God The Five Carlins. A Scots Ballad The Laddies by the Banks o’ Nith Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on the close of the disputed Election between Sir James Johnstone, and Captain Miller, for the Dumfries district of Boroughs 150 151 152 152 152 153 154 155 155 155 156 156 157 158 159 159 159 160 160 161 162 163 165 165 167 168 169 - 37 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. On Captain Grose’s Peregrination through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that kingdom Written in a wrapper, enclosing a letter to Captain Grose Tam O’ Shanter. A Tale Address of Beelzebub to the President of the Highland Society To John Taylor Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the approach of Spring The Whistle Elegy on Miss Burnet of Monboddo Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart., of Whitefoord, with the foregoing Poem Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam with bays To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray To Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintray, on receiving a favour A Vision To John Maxwell, of Terraughty, on his birthday The Rights of Women, an occasional Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit-night, Nov. 26, 1792 Monody on a Lady famed for her caprice Epistle from Esopus to Maria Poem on Pastoral Poetry Sonnet, written on the 25th January, 1793, the birthday of the Author, on hearing a thrush sing in a morning walk Sonnet on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glenriddel, April, 1794 Impromptu on Mrs. Riddel’s birthday Liberty. A Fragment Verses to a young Lady The Vowels. A Tale Verses to John Rankine On Sensibility. To my dear and much-honoured friend, Mrs. Dunlop, of Dunlop Lines sent to a Gentleman whom he had offended 170 171 171 174 175 175 176 178 178 179 179 180 181 181 182 182 183 184 185 185 186 186 186 186 187 187 188 188 - 38 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit-night On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a favourite character To Chloris Poetical Inscription for an Altar to Independence The Heron Ballads. Balled First The Heron Ballads. Ballad Second The Heron Ballads. Ballad Third Poem addressed to Mr. Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries, 1796 To Miss Jessy Lewars, Dumfries, with Johnson’s Musical Museum Poem on Life, addressed to Colonel de Peyster, Dumfries, 1796 188 189 189 189 190 190 192 193 193 193 PITAPHS, PIGRAMS, - 39 - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Complete works of Robert Burns, by Allan Cunningham. RAGMENTS, &c. [xiv] On the Author’s Father On R.A., Esq. On a Friend For Gavin Hamilton On wee Johnny On John Dove, Innkeeper, Mauchline On a Wag in Mauchline On a celebrated ruling Elder On a noisy Polemic On Miss Jean Scott On a henpecked Country Squire On the same On t..."

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