THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT BURNS.

COLLATED WITH THE BEST EDITIONS:

BY

THOMAS PARK, ES2. F.S. A.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

Printed at the Stanhope Press,

BY CHARLES WHITTINGHAM,
103, Goswell Street;

FOR J. SHARPE; AND SOLD BY W. SUTTABY,
STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE STREET.

CONTENTS.

ENCOMIUM ON BURNS.

By the Rev. James Nicol..........

SCOTISH POEMS.

Preface to the First Edition........

Dedication to the Second Edition.......

The Twa Dogs; a Tale

Scotch Drink......

The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer to the

Scotch Representatives in the House of

Commons..

Postscript........

The Holy Fair.......

Death and Doctor Hornbook..

The Brigs of Ayr...................................

The Ordination...........................................................................................

The Calf....

Address to the Deil......

The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie,

the Author's only Pet Yowe...

Poor Mailie's Elegy..

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

To J. S***

A Dream

70

72

74

80

The auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salu-

tation to his auld Mare Maggie, on giving

her the accustomed Rip of Corn to han-

sel in the New Year..........

114

To a Mouse, on turning her up in her Nest

with the Plough, Nov. 1785..

118

A Winter Night......

120

Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet......

Second Epistle to Davie.........

Lord Gregory

Winter, a Dirge...........................

124

129

The Cotter's Saturday Night..

133

ENCOMIUM ON BURNS.

BY

THE REV. JAMES NICOL.

HAIL, BURNS! wha can the heart engage,
Thou shame an' glory o' our age!
Thy strang, expressive, pictur'd page,
While time remains,

Shall melt with love, or fire with rage,
Thy native swains.

VOL. I.