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CONTENTS.

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Biographical Preface
ix-xxxiii
The Twa Dogs
1
Scotch Drink
6
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
9
The Holy Fair
14
Death and Doctor Hornbook
19
The Brigs of Ayr
24
The Ordination
29
The Calf
30
Address to the Deil
31
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, the Author's only pet Yowe
33
Poor Mailie's Elegy
34
To James Smith
34
A Dream
37
The Vision
38
Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous
42
Tam Samson's Elegy
43
Halloween
45
The Jolly Beggars
49
A Winter Night
54
The Auld Farmer's New-Year Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare Maggie
57
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough
58
Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
59
The Lament, occasioned by the Unfortunate Issue of a Friend's Amour
61
The Cotter's Saturday Night
62
Despondency
66
Winter
67
Man was made to mourn
68
On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies
69
A Prayer in the prospect of Death
70
Stanzas on the same occasion
70
Lying at a Reverend Friend's house one night
71
The First Six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm
71
A Prayer, under the pressure of violent anguish
72
The First Psalm
72
To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems
72
To Ruin
72
Epistle to a Young Friend
73
To a Mountain Daisy
74
To a Haggis
75
A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
75
To a Louse, on seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
77
Address to Edinburgh
78
Epistle to John Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard
79
To the Same
80
To William Simpson
82
Epistle to John Rankine
84
Written in Friar's-Carse Hermitage
85
Ode, sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald
86
Elegy on Captain Matthew Henderson
87
Lament of Mary Queen of Scots, on the Approach of Spring
89
Epistle to R. Graham, Esq.
90
To Robert Graham, of Fintra, Esq.
92
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
93
Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart., with the foregoing Poem
94
Tam O'Shanter
95
On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland
99
On seeing a Wounded Hare limp by me
100
Address to the Shade of Thomson, on crowning his Bust at Ednam
101
To Miss Cruikshank
101
On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq.
102
The humble Petition of Bruar Water to the noble Duke of Athole
102
The Kirk's Alarm
103
Address to the Toothache
105
Written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece in the parlour of the inn at Kenmore, Taymouth
106
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of family distress
107
Written with a pencil, standing by the Fall of Fyers, near Lockness
107
Second Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet
107
The Inventory of the Poet's Goods and Chattels
108
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