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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. 128. The Farewell28 lines · love · grief · elegiac
  2. 209. Song—M’Pherson’s Farewell28 lines · grief · death · nature
  3. 310. Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale224 lines · love · death · nature
  4. 447. Song—A red, red Rose16 lines · love · nature · solitude
  5. A Red, Red Rose16 lines · love · nature · solitude
  6. Tam O'Shanter227 lines · love · death · nature
  7. 101. Song—Composed in Spring38 lines · nature · solitude · joy
  8. 115. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton32 lines · love · grief · mystical
  9. 117. Song—Farewell to Eliza16 lines · love · grief · joy
  10. 123. Lines to an Old Sweetheart8 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  11. 130. Nature’s Law: A Poem48 lines · love · joy · time
  12. 136. Prayer—O Thou Dread Power24 lines · love · grief · spiritual
  13. 137. Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr32 lines · love · grief · nature
  14. 144. A Winter Night96 lines · love · grief · nature
  15. 15. Winter: A Dirge24 lines · nature · time · romantic
  16. 155. Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House70 lines · love · solitude · joy
  17. 16. A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish16 lines · spiritual · short lyric · romantic
  18. 166. Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  19. 167. Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  20. 177. Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair47 lines · love · grief · death
  21. 185. The Humble Petition of Bruar Water89 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  22. 19. A Prayer in the Prospect of Death20 lines · death · spiritual · short lyric
  23. 193. On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit40 lines · nature · joy · justice
  24. 195. Song—A Rose-bud by my Early Walk24 lines · love · nature · joy
  25. 201. Birthday Ode for 31st December, 178760 lines · grief · spiritual · solitude
  26. 203. Sylvander to Clarinda41 lines · love · solitude · joy
  27. 204. Song—Love in the Guise of Friendship8 lines · love · joy · song
  28. 220. Song—The Winter it is Past8 lines · love · nature · joy
  29. 226. Song—I hae a Wife o’ my Ain16 lines · joy · song · short lyric
  30. 234. A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death16 lines · love · grief · death
  31. 244. The Henpecked Husband19 lines · short lyric · romantic
  32. 247. Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive31 lines · spiritual · time · ode
  33. 25. My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad36 lines · solitude · time · justice
  34. 254. Caledonia: A Ballad48 lines · nature · time · voyage
  35. 26. John Barleycorn: A Ballad60 lines · love · death · nature
  36. 264. Song—On a Bank of Flowers36 lines · love · nature · joy
  37. 273. Song—Tam Glen32 lines · love · joy · song
  38. 278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations60 lines · romantic
  39. 279. Epigram on Francis Grose the Antiquary6 lines · short lyric · romantic
  40. 280. The Kirk of Scotland’s Alarm: A Ballad118 lines · love · spiritual · solitude
  41. 285. Song—I Gaed a Waefu’ Gate Yestreen16 lines · love · death · joy
  42. 29. Song—The Rigs o’ Barley39 lines · love · nature · solitude
  43. 292. Song—Farewell to the Highlands13 lines · love · grief · joy
  44. 293. The Whistle: A Ballad72 lines · love · death · nature
  45. 294. Song—To Mary in Heaven32 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  46. 296. The Five Carlins: An Election Ballad97 lines · love · mystical · joy
  47. 297. Election Ballad for Westerha’23 lines · time · romantic
  48. 304. Song—I Murder hate16 lines · death · joy · justice
  49. 305. Song—Gudewife, count the lawin18 lines · nature · mystical · joy
  50. 306. Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790162 lines · love · death · nature
  51. 309. Verses on Captain Grose16 lines · short lyric · romantic
  52. 311. On the Birth of a Posthumous Child24 lines · love · nature · romantic
  53. 314. Song—There’ll never be Peace till Jamie comes hame16 lines · love · joy · time
  54. 324. Song—The Charms of Lovely Davies32 lines · nature · joy · time
  55. 347. Song—Ye Jacobites by Name20 lines · grief · solitude · joy
  56. 352. The Song of Death16 lines · love · grief · death
  57. 370. Song—Sic a Wife as Willie had32 lines · joy · song · romantic
  58. 375. Song—The Deuks dang o’er my Daddie16 lines · joy · time · song
  59. 38. Epitaph on my Ever Honoured Father9 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  60. 383. Song—My Wife’s a winsome wee thing14 lines · love · joy · sonnet
  61. 386. The Rights of Women—Spoken by Miss Fontenelle38 lines · love · grief · nature
  62. 39. Ballad on the American War72 lines · solitude · time · justice
  63. 391. A Tippling Ballad—When Princes and Prelates, etc.21 lines · justice · romantic
  64. 394. Song—Braw Lads o’ Gala Water16 lines · love · joy · song
  65. 395. Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday14 lines · love · nature · joy
  66. 398. Lord Gregory: A Ballad24 lines · love · spiritual · devotional
  67. 403. The Soldier’s Return: A Ballad64 lines · love · nature · mystical
  68. 419. Bonie Jean: A Ballad48 lines · love · nature · joy
  69. 421. Epitaph on a Lap-dog8 lines · joy · short lyric · romantic
  70. 437. Song—Thine am I, my faithful Fair16 lines · love · nature · joy
  71. 438. Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday16 lines · nature · joy · time
  72. 449. Song—The Flowery banks of Cree16 lines · love · joy · song
  73. 45. My Girl she’s Airy: A Fragment6 lines · short lyric · romantic
  74. 466. Ode for General Washington’s Birthday62 lines · death · nature · spiritual
  75. 478. Epigram on a Suicide4 lines · short lyric · romantic
  76. 488. Song—The Winter of Life16 lines · nature · joy · time
  77. 494. Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows24 lines · grief · nature · joy
  78. 511. Song—O aye my wife she dang me14 lines · joy · time · sonnet
  79. 518. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 148 lines · nature · spiritual · romantic
  80. 519. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 296 lines · spiritual · justice · long poem
  81. 520. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 368 lines · solitude · time · romantic
  82. 538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green40 lines · love · grief · nature
  83. 540. Inscription to Chloris24 lines · solitude · joy · romantic
  84. 548. The Dean of Faculty: A new Ballad40 lines · love · spiritual · romantic
  85. 551. Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 437 lines · justice · romantic
  86. 56. Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet155 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  87. 57. Holy Willie’s Prayer102 lines · love · spiritual · time
  88. 59. Death and Dr. Hornbook191 lines · love · death · nature
  89. 7. Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear12 lines · love · time · short lyric
  90. 73. Song—Farewell to Ballochmyle16 lines · love · grief · nature
  91. 75. Halloween268 lines · love · grief · nature
  92. 79. Adam Armour’s Prayer42 lines · death · spiritual · romantic
  93. 83. The Cotter’s Saturday Night190 lines · love · death · nature
  94. 87. The Twa Dogs240 lines · love · grief · nature
  95. 88. The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer204 lines · love · death · nature
  96. 91. The Vision285 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  97. 92. Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”92 lines · love · death · spiritual
  98. 93. The Rantin Dog, the Daddie o’t16 lines · love · short lyric · romantic
  99. 94. Here’s his Health in Water12 lines · short lyric · romantic