Robert Burns Country: The Works

Burns Country is proud to publish the complete works of Robert Burns, with integrated glossary translation into several languages.

To find a work you are looking for, either:

find its title in the alphabetical index; or
find its title in the index by date; or
search for a word or phrase (searching all of Burns Country).

To use the glossaries:

if you have Javascript installed, simply hover your mouse over a highlighted word, and a new mini-window will appear; move this window to a convenient position, and its contents will change as you select each word.
if your browser is not Javascript-enabled, the highlighted words will link directly to the glossary.

Contact us:

to report corrections or suggestions, or even to offer to translate the 2000 term glossary into a new language, please email: comments@robertburns.org

Index by Date

A Health To Ane I Loe Dear
A Lass Wi' A Tocher
Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars
Epistle To Colonel De Peyster
Fairest Maid On Devon Banks
Inscription To Miss Jessy Lewars
O Lay Thy Loof In Mine, Lass
O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
The Trogger.
1771-1779 Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
1771-1779 Handsome Nell^1
1771-1779 I Dream'd I Lay
1771-1779 In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
1771-1779 Montgomerie's Peggy
1771-1779 O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
1771-1779 Ploughman's Life, The
1771-1779 Tarbolton Lasses, The
1771-1779 Tragic Fragment
1780 Bonie Peggy Alison
1780 Here's To Thy Health
1780 Lass Of Cessnock Banks, The^1
1780 Mary Morison
1780 Ronalds Of The Bennals, The
1781 First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified, The
1781 In The Prospect Of Death
1781 Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
1781 Stanzas On The Same Occasion [Prospect of Death]
1781 Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
1781 Winter: A Dirge
1782 A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge
1782 Fickle Fortune
1782 I'll Go And Be A Sodger
1782 John Barleycorn: A Ballad
1782 My Father Was A Farmer
1782 No Churchman Am I
1782 Raging Fortune
1783 Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe., The. An Unco Mournfu' Tale
1783 Green Grow The Rashes
1783 My Nanie, O
1783 Poor Mailie's Elegy
1783 Song Composed In August
1783 The Rigs O' Barley
1783 Wha Is That At My Bower-Door
1784 A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter^1
1784 Another [Epigram On The Said Occasion... On A Henpecked Country Squire]
1784 Ballad On The American War
1784 Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]
1784 Epistle To John Rankine
1784 Epitaph On John Rankine
1784 Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton
1784 Lines On The Author's Death
1784 Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
1784 My Girl She's Airy
1784 O Leave Novels^1
1784 On A Henpecked Country Squire
1784 On A Noisy Polemic
1784 On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
1784 On My Ever Honoured Father
1784 On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton Mill
1784 On Tam The Chapman
1784 Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine
1784 The Belles Of Mauchline
1784 The Mauchline Lady
1784 The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie
1784 Remorse
1785 Adam Armour's Prayer
1785 Address To The Deil
1785 Death and Doctor Hornbook
1785 Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux^1
1785 Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
1785 Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
1785 Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
1785 Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
1785 Epitaph For James Smith
1785 Epitaph On Holy Willie
1785 Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
1785 Farewell To Ballochmyle
1785 For A' That^1
1785 Halloween^1
1785 Holy Willie's Prayer
1785 Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
1785 One Night As I Did Wander
1785 Rantin', Rovin' Robin
1785 Scotch Drink
1785 Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
1785 Second Epistle to Davie
1785 The Cotter's Saturday Night
1785 The Holy Fair^1
1785 The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata^1
1785 Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
1785 Tho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
1785 To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough
1785 Young Peggy Blooms
1786 A Bard's Epitaph
1786 A Dedication
1786 A Dream
1786 A Winter Night
1786 Address Of Beelzebub
1786 Address To A Haggis
1786 Address To Edinburgh
1786 Address To The Toothache
1786 Address To The Unco Guid, Or The Rigidly Righteous
1786 Composed In Spring
1786 Despondency: An Ode
1786 Epigram On Rough Roads
1786 Epistle To A Young Friend
1786 Epistle To James Smith
1786 Epistle To Major Logan
1786 Epitaph For Gavin Hamilton, Esq.
1786 Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.
1786 Epitaph On "Wee Johnie"
1786 Farewell Song To The Banks Of Ayr
1786 Farewell To Eliza
1786 Fragment Of Song
1786 Here's His Health In Water
1786 Home.
1786 Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More's
1786 Lines On Meeting With Lord Daer^1
1786 Lines To An Old Sweetheart
1786 Lines To Mr. John Kennedy
1786 Lines Written On A Banknote
1786 Masonic Song
1786 Motto Prefixed To The Author's First Publication
1786 My Highland Lassie, O
1786 Nature's Law - A Poem
1786 O Thou Dread Power
1786 On A Scotch Bard, Gone To The West Indies
1786 On Sensibility
1786 Reply To A Trimming Epistle Received From A Tailor
1786 Stanzas On Naething
1786 Tam Samson's Elegy
1786 The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
1786 The Author's Earnest Cry And Prayer
1786 The Brigs Of Ayr
1786 The Calf
1786 The Farewell
1786 The Farewell To the Brethren of St. James' Lodge, Tarbolton
1786 The Inventory^1
1786 The Lament
1786 The Lass O' Ballochmyle
1786 The Ordination
1786 The Rantin' Dog, The Daddie O't
1786 The Twa Dogs^1
1786 The Vision
1786 Thomson's Edward and Eleanora.
1786 To A Louse
1786 To A Mountain Daisy
1786 To Gavin Hamilton, Esq., Mauchline,
1786 To John Kennedy, Dumfries House
1786 To Mr. M'Adam, Of Craigen-Gillan
1786 To Ruin
1786 Versified Note To Dr. Mackenzie, Mauchline
1786 Versified Reply To An Invitation
1786 Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?
1786 Willie Chalmers
1786 Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
1787 A Bottle And Friend
1787 A Rose-Bud By My Early Walk
1787 Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee
1787 Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787^1
1787 Blythe Was She^1
1787 Bonie Dundee
1787 Braving Angry Winter's Storms
1787 Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
1787 Castle Gordon
1787 Elegy On "Stella"
1787 Elegy On The Death Of Sir James Hunter Blair
1787 Epigram Addressed To An Artist
1787 Epigram At Roslin Inn
1787 Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands
1787 Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church
1787 Epigram To Miss Jean Scott
1787 Epistle To Mrs. Scott
1787 Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank^1
1787 Epitaph For Mr. William Michie
1787 Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh
1787 Extempore In The Court Of Session
1787 Hey, Ca' Thro' - Boat song
1787 Impromptu On Carron Iron Works
1787 Inscription For The Headstone Of Fergusson The Poet^1
1787 Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
1787 Lines On The Fall Of Fyers Near Loch-Ness.
1787 Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns
1787 Mr. William Smellie -A Sketch
1787 My Lord A-Hunting
1787 My Peggy's Charms
1787 On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams
1787 On Scaring Some Water-Fowl In Loch-Turit
1787 On The Death Of John M'Leod, Esq,
1787 On The Death Of Robert Dundas, Esq., Of Arniston,
1787 Prologue
1787 Rattlin', Roarin' Willie^1
1787 Strathallan's Lament^1
1787 Sylvander To Clarinda^1
1787 The Banks Of The Devon
1787 The Bard At Inverary
1787 The Birks Of Aberfeldy
1787 The Bonie Lass Of Albany^1
1787 The Bonie Moor-Hen
1787 The Book-Worms
1787 The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
1787 The Libeller's Self-Reproof^1
1787 The Poet's Reply To The Threat Of A Censorious Critic
1787 The Young Highland Rover
1787 Theniel Menzies' Bonie Mary
1787 To Miss Ferrier
1787 To Miss Logan, With Beattie's Poems, For A New-Year's Gift, Jan. 1, 1787
1787 Verses Intended To Be Written Below A Noble Earl's Picture^1
1787 Verses Written With A Pencil Over the Chimney-piece in the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth.
1787 Written By Somebody On The Window Of an Inn at Stirling, on seeing the Royal Palace in ruin.
1788 A Mother's Lament For the Death of Her Son.
1788 Anna, Thy Charms
1788 Auld Lang Syne
1788 Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul
1788 Duncan Davison
1788 Elegy On The Year 1788
1788 Epistle To Hugh Parker
1788 Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry
1788 Go On, Sweet Bird, And Sooth My Care
1788 Hey, The Dusty Miller
1788 How Long And Dreary Is The Night
1788 I Hae a Wife O' My Ain
1788 I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom
1788 I'm O'er Young To Marry Yet
1788 It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face
1788 Lines Written In Friars'-Carse Hermitage
1788 Love In The Guise Of Friendship
1788 M'Pherson's Farewell
1788 My Bonie Mary
1788 My Hoggie
1788 O, Were I On Parnassus Hill
1788 Of A' The Airts The Wind Can Blaw^1
1788 Raving Winds Around Her Blowing
1788 Stay My Charmer
1788 Talk Of Him That's Far Awa
1788 The Bonie Lad That's Far Awa
1788 The Chevalier's Lament
1788 The Day Returns
1788 The Fall Of The Leaf
1788 The Fete Champetre
1788 The Henpecked Husband
1788 The Lad They Ca'Jumpin John
1788 The Parting Kiss
1788 The Poet's Progress
1788 The Winter It Is Past
1788 To Alex. Cunningham, ESQ., Writer
1788 To Daunton Me
1788 To The Weavers Gin Ye Go
1788 Up In The Morning Early
1788 Verses To Clarinda
1788 Versicles On Sign-Posts
1788 Written In Friars Carse Hermitage
1789 A New Psalm For The Chapel Of Kilmarnock
1789 A Waukrife Minnie
1789 Awa' Whigs, Awa'
1789 Beware O' Bonie Ann
1789 Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
1789 Caledonia -A Ballad
1789 Carle, An The King Come
1789 Delia, An Ode
1789 Election Ballad For Westerha'
1789 Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary
1789 Epistle To Dr. Blacklock
1789 Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner
1789 Extemporaneous Effusion
1789 Highland Harry Back Again
1789 I Gaed A Waefu' Gate Yestreen
1789 I Love My Love In Secret
1789 Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell
1789 Jamie, Come Try Me
1789 John Anderson, My Jo
1789 Lines To John M'Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig
1789 My Eppie Adair
1789 My Heart's In The Highlands
1789 My Love, She's But A Lassie Yet
1789 Ode On The Departed Regency Bill
1789 Ode, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of Auchencruive
1789 On A Bank Of Flowers
1789 On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
1789 Pegasus At Wanlockhead
1789 Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents
1789 Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
1789 Robin Shure In Hairst
1789 Sappho Redivivus
1789 She's Fair And Fause
1789 Sketch In Verse
1789 Sonnet On Receiving A Favour
1789 Sweet Tibbie Dunbar
1789 Tam Glen
1789 The Kirk Of Scotland's Alarm
1789 The Banks Of Nith
1789 The Battle Of Sherramuir
1789 The Braes O' Killiecrankie
1789 The Captain's Lady
1789 The Captive Ribband
1789 The Five Carlins
1789 The Gard'ner Wi' His Paidle
1789 The Laddie's Dear Sel'
1789 The Whistle -A Ballad
1789 The Wounded Hare
1789 To Mary In Heaven
1789 To Miss Cruickshank, a very Young Lady
1789 Whistle O'er The Lave O't
1789 Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut^1
1789 Young Jockie Was The Blythest Lad
1790 Election Ballad
1790 Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson
1790 Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
1790 Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare
1790 Gudewife, Count The Lawin
1790 I Murder Hate
1790 Lines To A Gentleman,
1790 On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child
1790 Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland
1790 Sketch -New Year's Day [1790]
1790 Tam O' Shanter
1790 The Epitaph
1790 The Gowden Locks Of Anna
1790 Verses On Captain Grose
1791 A Grace After Dinner, Extempore
1791 A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore
1791 Address To The Shade Of Thomson
1791 Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever
1791 Altho' He Has Left Me
1791 Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
1791 Craigieburn Wood
1791 Damon And Sylvia
1791 Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
1791 Epigram At Brownhill Inn^1
1791 Epigram On Miss Davies
1791 Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty
1791 Frae The Friends And Land I Love
1791 I Hae Been At Crookieden
1791 Johnie Lad, Cock Up Your Beaver
1791 Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn
1791 Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
1791 Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart
1791 Lovely Polly Stewart
1791 My Bonie Bell
1791 My Eppie Macnab
1791 My Native Land Sae Far Awa
1791 My Tocher's The Jewel
1791 Nithsdale's Welcome Hame
1791 O For Ane An' Twenty, Tam
1791 O Kenmure's On And Awa, Willie
1791 O May, Thy Morn
1791 On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain
1791 Out Over The Forth
1791 Poem On Pastoral Poetry
1791 Poem On Sensibility
1791 Second Epistle To Robert Graham, ESQ., Of Fintry
1791 Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
1791 Sweet Afton
1791 The Banks O' Doon
1791 The Banks O' Doon
1791 The Banks O' Doon
1791 The Bonie Wee Thing
1791 The Charms Of Lovely Davies
1791 The Gallant Weaver
1791 The Keekin'-Glass
1791 The Posie
1791 The Song Of Death
1791 The Toadeater
1791 There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
1791 Thou Fair Eliza
1791 Thou Gloomy December
1791 Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig
1791 What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man
1791 Ye Jacobites By Name
1791 You're Welcome, Willie Stewart
1792 A Tippling Ballad
1792 Auld Rob Morris
1792 Bessy And Her Spinnin' Wheel
1792 Duncan Gray
1792 Epigram On Seeing Miss Fontenelle In A Favourite Character
1792 Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson
1792 Fragment Of Song
1792 Here's A Health To Them That's Awa
1792 Highland Mary
1792 I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair
1792 I'll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig
1792 Kellyburn Braes
1792 Lady Mary Ann
1792 Lines On Fergusson, The Poet
1792 Love For Love
1792 My Collier Laddie
1792 My Wife's A Winsome Wee Thing
1792 O Can Ye Labour Lea?
1792 Saw Ye Bonie Lesley
1792 Scroggam, My Dearie
1792 Sic A Wife As Willie Had
1792 The Country Lass
1792 The Deil's Awa Wi' The Exciseman
1792 The Deuks Dang O'er My Daddie
1792 The Rights Of Woman
1792 The Slave's Lament
1792 The Weary Pund O' Tow
1792 When She Cam' Ben She Bobbed
1793 Address Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her Benefit Night, December 4th, 1793, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
1793 Behold The Hour, The Boat Arrive
1793 Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill
1793 Bonie Jean-A Ballad
1793 Braw Lads O' Galla Water
1793 By Allan Stream
1793 Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast
1793 Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell
1793 Dainty Davie
1793 Deluded Swain, The Pleasure
1793 Down The Burn, Davie
1793 Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan
1793 Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway
1793 Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo
1793 Extempore Reply To An Invitation
1793 Grace After Meat
1793 Grace Before And After Meat
1793 Had I A Cave
1793 Impromptu On General Dumourier's Desertion From The French Republican Army
1793 Kirk and State Excisemen
1793 Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac
1793 Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney's Victory
1793 Logan Braes
1793 Lord Gregory
1793 Lovely Young Jessie
1793 Meg O' The Mill
1793 Meg O' The Mill
1793 My Spouse Nancy
1793 O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
1793 On Commissary Goldie's Brains
1793 On Mrs. Riddell's Birthday
1793 On Politics
1793 Open The Door To Me, Oh
1793 Phillis The Fair
1793 Phillis The Queen O' The Fair
1793 Poortith Cauld And Restless Love
1793 Robert Bruce's March To Bannockburn
1793 Sonnet Written On The Author's Birthday,
1793 Thanksgiving For A National Victory
1793 The Last Time I Came O'er The Moor
1793 The Raptures Of Folly
1793 The Soldier's Return
1793 The True Loyal Natives
1793 Thine Am I, My Faithful Fair
1793 Thou Hast Left Me Ever, Jamie
1793 Wandering Willie
1793 Wandering Willie
1793 Where Are The Joys I have Met?
1793 Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad
1794 A Fiddler In The North
1794 A Red, Red Rose
1794 A Vision
1794 Bannocks O' Bear Meal
1794 Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves
1794 Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
1794 Canst Thou Leave Me Thus, My Katie
1794 Charlie, He's My Darling
1794 Contented Wi' Little And Cantie Wi' Mair
1794 Epigram On A Country Laird,
1794 Epistle From Esopus To Maria
1794 Epitaph For Mr. Walter Riddell
1794 Epitaph On A Noted Coxcomb
1794 Esteem For Chloris
1794 Farewell Thou Stream
1794 For The Sake O' Somebody
1794 How Lang And Dreary Is The Night
1794 Inconstancy In Love
1794 Inscription To Miss Graham Of Fintry
1794 It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
1794 Lassie Wi' The Lint-White Locks
1794 Monody
1794 My Nanie's Awa
1794 Ode For General Washington's Birthday
1794 On An Innkeeper Nicknamed "The Marquis"
1794 On A Suicide
1794 On A Swearing Coxcomb
1794 On Andrew Turner
1794 On Being Shewn A Beautiful Country Seat
1794 On Capt. Lascelles
1794 On Chloris
1794 On Hearing It Asserted Falsehood
1794 On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs
1794 On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico
1794 On The Seas And Far Away
1794 On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe
1794 Philly And Willy
1794 Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell's Carriage
1794 Pretty Peg
1794 Remorseful Apology
1794 Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly
1794 She Says She Loes Me Best Of A'
1794 Sonnet On The Death Of Robert Riddell
1794 The Charming Month Of May
1794 The Epitaph
1794 The Flowery Banks Of Cree
1794 The Highland Balou
1794 The Highland Widow's Lament
1794 The Lovely Lass O' Inverness
1794 The Lover's Morning Salute To His Mistress
1794 The Minstrel At Lincluden
1794 The Tear-Drop
1794 The Winter Of Life
1794 To Dr. Maxwell
1794 To The Beautiful Miss Eliza J-N
1794 Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?
1794 Young Jamie, Pride Of A' The Plain
1795
1795 A Man's A Man For A' That
1795 Address To The Woodlark
1795 Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine
1795 Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election, 1795
1795 Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election, 1795
1795 Ballads on Mr. Heron's Election, 1795
1795 Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay
1795 Compliments Of John Syme Of Ryedale
1795 Craigieburn Wood
1795 Crowdie Ever Mair
1795 Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?
1795 Epigram On Mr. James Gracie
1795 Epitaph For Mr. Gabriel Richardson
1795 Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near
1795 Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon
1795 Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me
1795 Her Answer
1795 How Cruel Are The Parents
1795 I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town
1795 Inscription
1795 Inscription At Friars' Carse Hermitage
1795 Inscription For An Altar Of Independence
1795 Jerusalem Tavern, Dumfries.
1795 Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
1795 Leezie Lindsay
1795 Mally's Meek, Mally's Sweet
1795 Mark Yonder Pomp Of Costly Fashion
1795 News, Lassies, News
1795 O Aye My Wife She Dang Me
1795 O Bonie Was Yon Rosy Brier
1795 O Let Me In Thes Ae Night
1795 O Steer Her Up An' Haud Her Gaun
1795 O That's The Lassie O' My Heart
1795 O Wat Ye Wha's In Yon Town
1795 On Chloris Being Ill
1795 Song Inscribed To Alexander Cunningham
1795 The Braw Wooer
1795 The Cardin O't, The Spinnin O't
1795 The Cooper O' Cuddy
1795 The Lass O' Ecclefechan
1795 The Lass That Made The Bed To Me
1795 The Solemn League And Covenant
1795 The Wren's Nest
1795 Their Groves O'Sweet Myrtle
1795 There Was A Bonie Lass
1795 This Is No My Ain Lassie
1795 Twas Na Her Bonie Blue E'e
1795 Verses To Collector Mitchell
1795 Wee Willie Gray
1795 Why, Why Tell The Lover
1796 The Dean Of Faculty