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To John Taylor
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To ———
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There's Naethin' like the Honest Nappy
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Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb
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'In Vain Would Prudence'
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'Though Fickle Fortune'
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The Loyal Natives' Verses
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Burns — Extempore
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'I Burn, I Burn'
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Tam the Chapman
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To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's Recovery
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Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods, on his benefit night
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Nature's Law. A Poem humbly inscribed to G. H. Esq.
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The Cats Like Kitchen
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Poverty
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Tragic Fragment
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Extempore. Pinned to a Lady's Coach
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Lines on being asked why God had made Miss Davies so little and Mrs. — so large
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Fragments
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Verses written on a Window of the Inn at Carron
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Epigram. Written at Inverary
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Verses addressed to J. Rankine
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Lines said to have been written by Burns, while on his Death-bed, to John Rankine
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Lines written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket Book
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The Henpeck'd Husband
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Extempore Lines, in answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns
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Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent the Author by a Tailor
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A Toast. Given at a meeting of the Dumfriesshire Volunteers
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On seeing the beautiful seat of Lord Galloway
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On the Same
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On the Same
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To the Same, on the Author being threatened with his Resentment
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Epitaph on a Henpeck'd Country Squire
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Epigram on said occasion
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Another
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On hearing that there was Falsehood in the Rev. Dr. B———'s very Looks
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Extemporaneous Effusion, on being appointed to the Excise
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Lines written on a Window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries
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On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire
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Lines written and presented to Mrs. Kemble
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Epitaph on William Nicol
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Verses to J. Rankine
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Extempore in the Court of Session
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Epitaph on John Dove
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Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
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Lines written on the Window of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
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Epigram on Captain Francis Grose
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Lines written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns
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On Miss J. Scott of Ayr
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Epitaph on John Bushby
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Epigram on Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams
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Epitaph on a Country Laird
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Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
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Epitaph on Wee Johnny
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Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder
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Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.
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Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
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Epitaph on my Father
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Epitaph on a Person nicknamed "The Marquis"
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On Himself
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Epitaph on Walter S———
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Grace before Meat
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On Commissary Goldie's Brains
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Impromptu
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Impromptu
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Epigram
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SONGS.
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