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CONTENTS OF VOL. XXXVIII.
LIFE OF ROBERT BURNS,
On the death of Burns, by Mr. Roscoe,
Preface to the First Edition of Burns' Poems,
published at Kilmarnock,
Dedication of the Second Edition of the Poems
formerly printed. To the Noblemen and
Gentlemen of the Caledonian Hunt,
POEMS, CHIEFLY SCOTTISH.
The Twa Dogs, a Tale,
Scotch Drink,
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27
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37
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.
B*********, Esq. Ayr,
The Ordination,
The Calf. To the Rev. Mr.
Address to the Deil,
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie,
Poor Mailie's Elegy,
To J. S****,
A Dream,
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Halloween,
The Auld Farmer's New Year Morning Salu-
tation to his Auld Mare Maggie,
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest
with the Plough, November, 1785,
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet,
The Lament, occasioned by the unfortunate
issue of a Friend's Amour,
Despondency, an Ode,
Winter, a Dirge,
The Cotter's Saturday Night,
Man was made to Mourn, a Dirge,
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,
A Prayer, under the Pressure of violent An-
guish,
The first Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm,
To a Mountain Daisy. On turning one down,
with the Plough, in April, 1786,
To Ruin,
To Miss L- with Beattie's Poems as a
New Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787,
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,
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Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard,
To the Same,
To W. S*****n, Ochiltree, May, 1785,
Epistle to J. R******, enclosing some Poems,
John Barleycorn, a Ballad,
Song-It was upon a Lammas night,
Song, composed in August,
Song-Behind yon bill 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
Lodge, Tarbolton,
239
The Epitaph,
proach of Spring,
Song-No churchman am I for to rail and to
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the ap-
To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintra,
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Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn,
Lines sent to Sir John Whitefoord of White-
foord, Bart. with the foregoing Poem,
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
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259
ib.
267
A Bard's Epitaph,
271
On the late Captain Grose's Peregrinations
through Scotland, collecting the Antiquities
of that Kingdom,
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275
To Miss Cruikshanks, a very young Lady.
Written on the blank leaf of a Book, pre-
sented to her by the Author,
Song-Anna, thy charms my bosom fire,
On reading in a Newspaper the Death of
John McLeod, 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
Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece,
in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Tay-
mouth,
Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of
Fyers, near Loch-Ness,
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284
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born
in peculiar Circumstances of Family Dis-
tress,
The Whistle, a Ballad,
MISCELLANEOUS PIECES OF POETRY.
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287
To Mary in Heaven,
Lines on an Interview with Lord Daer,
On a Young Lady,
On the Death of a Lap-Dog, named Echo,
Song,
Inscription to the Memory of Fergusson,
The Chevalier's Lament,
Epistle to R. Graham, Esq.
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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,
315
Elegy on the late Miss Burnet, of Monboddo, 316
Imitation of an old Jacobite Song,
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