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Poems by Robert Burns

Robert Burns (1759–1796) is represented here by 99 public-domain poems. The collection associates this work with Romantic and Scotland.

1759–1796RomanticScotland99 poems

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  1. A Red, Red Rose16 lines · love · nature · solitude
  2. Auld Lang Syne24 lines · nature · mystical · voyage
  3. Song: M’Pherson’s Farewell28 lines · grief · death · nature
  4. Song: Tam Glen32 lines · love · joy · song
  5. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale224 lines · love · death · nature
  6. The Farewell28 lines · love · grief · elegiac
  7. Winter: A Dirge24 lines · nature · time · romantic
  8. A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death16 lines · love · grief · death
  9. A Prayer in the Prospect of Death20 lines · death · spiritual · short lyric
  10. A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish16 lines · spiritual · short lyric · romantic
  11. A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc.21 lines · justice · romantic
  12. A Winter Night96 lines · love · grief · nature
  13. Adam Armour’s Prayer42 lines · death · spiritual · romantic
  14. Ae Fond Kiss24 lines · love · grief · joy
  15. Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear12 lines · love · time · short lyric
  16. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 148 lines · nature · spiritual · romantic
  17. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 296 lines · spiritual · justice · long poem
  18. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 368 lines · solitude · time · romantic
  19. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 437 lines · justice · romantic
  20. Ballad on the American War72 lines · solitude · time · justice
  21. Birthday Ode for 31st December, 178760 lines · grief · spiritual · solitude
  22. Bonie Jean: A Ballad48 lines · love · nature · joy
  23. Caledonia: A Ballad48 lines · nature · time · voyage
  24. Death and Dr. Hornbook191 lines · love · death · nature
  25. Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790162 lines · love · death · nature
  26. Election Ballad for Westerha’23 lines · time · romantic
  27. Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair47 lines · love · grief · death
  28. Epigram on a Suicide4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  29. Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary6 lines · short lyric · romantic
  30. Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet155 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  31. Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House70 lines · love · solitude · joy
  32. Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  33. Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  34. Epitaph on a Lap-dog8 lines · joy · short lyric · romantic
  35. Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father9 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  36. Halloween268 lines · love · grief · nature
  37. Here’s his Health in Water12 lines · short lyric · romantic
  38. Holy Willie’s Prayer102 lines · love · spiritual · time
  39. Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday16 lines · nature · joy · time
  40. Inscription to Chloris24 lines · solitude · joy · romantic
  41. John Barleycorn: A Ballad60 lines · love · death · nature
  42. Lines to an Old Sweetheart8 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  43. Lord Gregory: A Ballad24 lines · love · spiritual · devotional
  44. My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad36 lines · solitude · time · justice
  45. My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment6 lines · short lyric · romantic
  46. Nature’s Law: A Poem48 lines · love · joy · time
  47. Ode for General Washington’s Birthday62 lines · death · nature · spiritual
  48. Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive31 lines · spiritual · time · ode
  49. On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit40 lines · nature · joy · justice
  50. On the Birth of a Posthumous Child24 lines · love · nature · romantic
  51. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations60 lines · romantic
  52. Prayer—O Thou Dread Power24 lines · love · grief · spiritual
  53. Song: A Rose-bud by my Early Walk24 lines · love · nature · joy
  54. Song: Braw Lads o’ Gala Water16 lines · love · joy · song
  55. Song: Composed in Spring38 lines · nature · solitude · joy
  56. Song: Farewell thou stream that winding flows24 lines · grief · nature · joy
  57. Song: Farewell to Ballochmyle16 lines · love · grief · nature
  58. Song: Farewell to Eliza16 lines · love · grief · joy
  59. Song: Farewell to the Banks of Ayr32 lines · love · grief · nature
  60. Song: Farewell to the Highlands13 lines · love · grief · joy
  61. Song: Gudewife, count the lawin18 lines · nature · mystical · joy
  62. Song: I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen16 lines · love · death · joy
  63. Song: I hae a Wife o’ my Ain16 lines · joy · song · short lyric
  64. Song: I Murder hate16 lines · death · joy · justice
  65. Song: Love in the Guise of Friendship8 lines · love · joy · song
  66. Song: My Wife’s a winsome wee thing14 lines · love · joy · sonnet
  67. Song: Now Spring has clad the grove in green40 lines · love · grief · nature
  68. Song: O aye my wife she dang me14 lines · joy · time · sonnet
  69. Song: On a Bank of Flowers36 lines · love · nature · joy
  70. Song: Sic a Wife as Willie had32 lines · joy · song · romantic
  71. Song: The Charms of Lovely Davies32 lines · nature · joy · time
  72. Song: The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie16 lines · joy · time · song
  73. Song: The Flowery banks of Cree16 lines · love · joy · song
  74. Song: The Rigs o’ Barley39 lines · love · nature · solitude
  75. Song: The Winter it is Past8 lines · love · nature · joy
  76. Song: The Winter of Life16 lines · nature · joy · time
  77. Song: There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame16 lines · love · joy · time
  78. Song: Thine am I, my faithful Fair16 lines · love · nature · joy
  79. Song: To Mary in Heaven32 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  80. Song: Ye Jacobites by Name20 lines · grief · solitude · joy
  81. Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday14 lines · love · nature · joy
  82. Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”92 lines · love · death · spiritual
  83. Sylvander to Clarinda41 lines · love · solitude · joy
  84. The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer204 lines · love · death · nature
  85. The Cotter’s Saturday Night190 lines · love · death · nature
  86. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad40 lines · love · spiritual · romantic
  87. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton32 lines · love · grief · mystical
  88. The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad97 lines · love · mystical · joy
  89. The Henpecked Husband19 lines · short lyric · romantic
  90. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water89 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  91. The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad118 lines · love · spiritual · solitude
  92. The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o’t16 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  93. The Rights of Women—Spoken by Miss Fontenelle38 lines · love · grief · nature
  94. The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad64 lines · love · nature · mystical
  95. The Song of Death16 lines · love · grief · death
  96. The Twa Dogs240 lines · love · grief · nature
  97. The Vision285 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  98. The Whistle: A Ballad72 lines · love · death · nature
  99. Verses on Captain Grose16 lines · short lyric · romantic