CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXVIII.

LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS,

...

On the death of Burns, by Mr. Roscoe,

Preface to the First Edition of Burns' Poems,

Page

3

27

published at Kilmarnock,

33

Dedication of the Second Edition of the Poems

formerly printed. To the Noblemen and

Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt,

37

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POEMS, CHIEFLY SCOTTISH.

The Twa Dogs, a Tale,

Scotch Drink,

The Author's earnest Cry and Prayer to the

Scotch Representatives in the House of Com-

mons,

Postscript,

The Holy Fair,

Death and Dr. Hornbook,

The Brigs of Ayr, a Poem inscribed to J.

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50

55

61.

63

72

79

87

93

94

The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, 98

To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest

A Prayer on the Prospect of Death,

Stanzas on the same occasion,

Verses left by the Author, in a Room where

he slept, having lain at the House of a Re-

verend Friend,

The First Psalm,

A Prayer, under the Pressure of violent An-

guish,

165

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182

The first Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm,

To a Mountain Daisy. On turning one down,

with the Plough, in April, 1786,

ib.

184

To Ruin,

186

To Miss L-, with Beattie's Poems as a

New Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787,

187

Epistle to a Young Friend,

On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies,

To a Haggis,

A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.

To a Louse, on a Lady's Bonnet at Church,

Address to Edinburgh,

Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard,

To the Same,

Το W. S*****n, Ochiltree, May, 1785,

Postscript,

Epistle to J. R******, enclosing some Poems, 219

Song-Behind yon hill where Lugar flows,

Green grow the Rashes, a Fragment,

Song-Again rejoicing nature sees,

Song-The gloomy night is gath'ring fast,

Song-From thee, Eliza, I must go,

The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James's

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238

Lodge, Tarbolton,

239

Song-No churchman am I for to rail and to

write,

240

Written in Friar's Carse Hermitage, on Nith-

Side,

242

Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the ap-

proach of Spring,

To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintra,

249

251

253

Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn,

Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord of White-

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256

foord, Bart. with the foregoing Poem, 259

Tam O'Shanter, a Tale,

On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me, which

a fellow had just shot,

Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crown-

ing his Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with

Bays,

EPITAPHS, &C.

ib.

267

268

On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations

through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities

of that Kingdom,

272

To Miss Cruikshanks, a very young Lady.

Written on the blank leaf of a Book, pre-

sented to her by the Author,

274

275

Song-Anna, thy charms my bosom fire,

On reading in a Newspaper the Death of

John M'Leod, Esq. Brother to a young

Lady, a particular Friend of the Author's, 276

The Humble Petition of Bruar Water to the

Noble Duke of Athole,

277

On scaring some Water-Fowl in Loch-Turit, 280

Page

Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece,

in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Tay-

mouth,

282

Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of

Fyers, near Loch-Ness,

284

On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born

in peculiar Circumstances of Family Dis-

tress,

285

On the Death of a Lap-Dog, named Echo,

Song,

304

ib.

Inscription to the Memory of Fergusson,.

The Chevalier's Lament,

Epistle to R. Graham, Esq.

Fragment, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J.

Fox,

To Dr. Blacklock, Ellisland, 21st Oct. 1789,

Prologue, spoken at the Theatre, Ellisland, on

New-Year's Day Evening,

Elegy on the late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo, 316

Imitation of an old Jacobite Song,

Song of Death, .

The Rights of Woman,

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306

ib.

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