ADVERTISEMENT.

Tue present edition was undertaken by a gentleman with the view of presenting the public with the Poetical Works of Burns more methodically arranged, more copiously illustrated, and less expensive in the purchase, than they have yet appeared

In comparing it with others, it will be found to possess several advantages.

I. It contains, besides a number of other pieces not in serted in Dr. Currie's edition, “The Jolly Beggars," a cantata replete with humorous description and discrimination of character, and inferior to no poem of the same length in the English language. It likewise comprehends “Holy Willie's Prayer,” a piece of satire unequalled for exquisite severity and felicitous delineation. •

II. In the editions hitherto published, no regard is paid to method or classification. In this, the poems are disposed according to their respective subjects, and divided into five books.

II. Most of the poetry of Burns, though possessing an energy, a richness, and an ardor, which never fail to strike and captivate the mind, yet appears under great disadvan.

BOOK II.

PATHETIC, ELEGIAC, AND DESCRIPTIVE

Page

: :

106

.............

100

.. 119

. 121

Man was made to Mourn,........

98

A Winter Night, ....

101

Winter, ............

105

Despondency, ....

To Ruin, .......

........... 108

Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots, on the Approach of

Spring, ....

......... 109

The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate Issue of a

Friend's Amour,...

.... 112

Lament of a Mother for the Death of her Son,.......

Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn,...... ..... 116

Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart.,

with the foregoing Poem,....

Strathallan's Lament, .......

.. 119

The Chevalier's Lament,..

.. 120

The Author's Farewell to his Native Country,......

Farewell to Ayrshire, ...

122

The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's Lodge,

Tarbolton, ....

....... 123

Farewell to Eliza,

Highland Mary,..........

To Mary in Heaven, .....

Elegy, on the late Miss Burnet, of Monbodảo,.......

· Verses, on reading, in a Newspaper, the Death of

John M'Leod, Esq., Brother to a Young Lady,

a particular Friend of the Author,........... 129

Sonnet, on the Death of Robert Riddel, Esq., of Glen

Riddel, April, 1794,.......

......... 131

Verses, on the Death of Sir James IIunter Blair, ......

Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his

Bust, at Ednam, Boxburghshire, with Bays,... 133

Epitaph for the Author's Father, ......

.

.

..................

134

Page

For R. A., Esq.,....

135

On a Friend, ....,

135

A Bard's Epitaph, : ........

.... 135

Verses, on the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in

peculiar Circumstances of family Distress, .... 137

Lines, on scaring some Water-Fowl, in Loch-Turit, a

wild Scene among the Hills of Oughtertyre,... 138

Sonnet written on the 25th of January, 1793, the

Birth-day of the Author, on hearing a Thrush,

in a Morning Walk,.

... 139

On Sensibility, .....

......... 140

To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest, with the

Plough, November, 1785,................... 141

To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the

Plough, in April, 1786,......... ............. 143

The humble Petition of Bruar-Water, to the noble

Duke of Athole,............. .......... 145

Verses, on seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which

a Fellow had just shot at, ................... 148

Lines written with a Pencil, over the Chimney-piece,

in the Parlor of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth, 149

· Lines written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of

Fyers, near Loch-Ness,.... .......... 150

BOOK III.

FAMILIAR AND EPISTOLARY.

To Miss Cruikshanks, a very Young Lady - written

on the blank Leaf of a Book presented to her

by the Author, ............................ 151

Verses, on a Young Lady residing on the Banks of the

small River Devon, in Clackmannanshire, but

whose infant Years were spent in Ayrshire,. .. 152

Page

. 153

...............

174

To Miss 1 , with Beattie's Poems, as a New-Year's

Gift, January 1, 1787,......

Verses to a Young Lady, with a Present of Songs, .... 153

Verses written on the blank Leaf of a Copy of his

Poems, presented to a Lady, whom he had

often celebrated under the Name of Chloris, ... 154

To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy - Dumfries, with

Books which the Bard presented her, ......... 155

Verses written on the blank Leaf of a Copy of his

Poems, presented to an old Sweetheart, then

married, .................

.............. 156

To J. S****,..

.. 156

Epistle to Davie, a brother Poet,......

... 162

To the Same, .....

... 168

Epistle to J. Lapraik, .......

.. 170

To the Same,...........

To W. S*****n, ..........

... 178

Epistle to J. R.******, enclosing some Poems,.... 185

To Dr. Blacklock, ........

188

To Colonel De Peyster,.....

.. 190

Letter to J- ST- t Gl-nc-r,................

.. 192

To Mr. Mitchell, ..............

To the Guidwife of Wauchope-House, in Answer to

an Epistle she had sent the Author, .......... 196

To J. Ranken, on his writing to the Author that a

Giri was with Child by him, ....... .... 198

Address to an Illegitimate Child, ................... 199

Tc a Tailor, in Answer to an Epistle which he had

sent the Author,...

To Mr. William Tytler, with a Portrait of the

Author, ..................................

203

Epistle to R. Graham, Esq., of Fintra, ............. 204

To the Samne, .................................... 207

To the Same, on receiving a Favor,

210

To a Gentleman whom the Author had offended..... 211

194

...........................

200

-

Pago

To a Gentleman who had sent him a Newspaper, and

offered to continue it free of Expense, ........ 212

Sketch, to Mrs. Dunlop, on a New-Year's Day,...... 213

The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to

his Auld Mare, Maggie, .................... 215

The Death and dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Au-

thor's only pet Yowe, ...................... 219

Poor Mailie's Elegy, ...........

........ 221

BOOK IV.

HUMOROUS, SATIRICAL, EPIGRAMMATICAL, AND

MISCELLANEOUS.

.. 224

Tam O'Shanter,...............

Halloween,...

232

The Jolly Beggars,............

.243

Death and Dr. Hornbook,.......

. 257

A Dream,.....................................

.. 264

Scotch Drink,......

.........

The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer to the Scotch

Representatives in the House of Commons,.... 274

Address to the Deil, ......... ................... 281

On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through

Scotland, collecting the Antiquities of that

Kingdom, ........

......... 285

Lines written in a Wrapper, enclosing a Letter to

Captain Grose, ........

Epigram, on Captain Grose,..........

Lines, on an Interview with Lord Daer, .............

The Inventory,.........

To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet, at

Church, ....

.......... 294

Address to the Tooth-Ache, ........... ......... 296