Robert Burns
A full list of his poems are:
A Ballad [While prose work and rhymes]
A Bard's Epitaph
A dedication to Gavin Hamilton Esq
A Dream
A Fiddler In The North
A Fragment
A Fragment [Ballad on the American War]
A Fragment [On Glenriddel's Fox breaking his chain]
A Fragment [When first I came to Stewart Kyle]
A Grace After Dinner
A Grace Before Dinner
A Lass Wi A Tocher
A Man's a Man for A' That
A Mother's Lament
A new Psalm for the chapel of Kilmarnock
A Penitential thought, in the hour of Remorse - Intended for a Tragedy
A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter
A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
A Prayer, Under the Pressure of violent Anguish
A sonnet upon sonnets
A Tale
A Toast. Lines on the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory
A Verse composed and repeated by Burns
A Waukrife Minnie
A Winter Night
Act Sederunt of the Session
Adam Armour's Prayer
Address Of Beelzebub
Address to a Haggis
Address to Edinburgh
Address to General Dumourier
Address to the Deil
Address, to the shade of Thomson, on crowning his bust, at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with bays
Address To The Toothache
Address To The Unco Guid
Address to the Woodlark
Adown winding Nith I did wander
Ae Fond Kiss
Allan water
Altered from an old English song
Altho' He Has Left Me
An Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise
And I'll kiss thee yet, yet
Andrew And His Cutty Gun
Anna Thy Charms
Annotations in Verse
Answer to an Invitation
As I cam down by yon castle wa'
As I cam o'er the Cairney Mount
As I look'd over yon castle wa'
As I Walk'd By Mysel
As I was a wand'ring
As I went out ae May morning
At Brownhill Inn
At Roslin Inn
At Whigham's Inn, Sanquhar
Auld Lang Syne
Auld Rob Morris
Awa Whigs Awa
Ay Waukin O
Banks of Cree
Bannocks O' Bear Meal
Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive
Behold The Hour The Boat Arrive second version
Bessy and her Spinning Wheel
Beware o' Bonie Ann
Birthday Ode For 31st December, 1787
Blyth Will an' Bessie's Wedding
Blythe hae I been on yon hill
Bonie Bell
Bonie Dundee
Bonie Jean
Bonie Laddie, Highland Laddie
Bonie Mary
Bonnie Peg
Braw Lads O Galla Water
Broom Besoms [A]
Broom Besoms [B]
Brose and Butter
Burns Grace at Kirkcudbright
Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes (2nd version)
Caledonia
Can you leave me thus, my Katy
Carl an the king come
Castle Gordon
Cauld Frosty Morning
Cauld is the e'enin blast
Charlie, He's My Darling
Clarinda (Mistress of my soul)
Cock Up Your Beaver
Come let me take thee to my breast
Come Rede Me Dame
Comin' O'er the Hills o' Coupar
Comin' thro' the Rye
Comin' thro' the rye [alternate version]
Complimentary Epigram On Maria Riddell
Composed In August
Composed in Spring
Contented wi little
Corn Rigs
Country Lassie
Craigieburn wood
Cuddie the Cooper
Dainty Davie
Death and Doctor Hornbook
Delia
Denty Daivy
Despondency
Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat
Down the burn Davie
Dumfries Epigrams
Duncan Davidson
Duncan Davison
Duncan Gray
Duncan Macleerie
Dusty Miller
Elegy on Captain MH, A gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from almighty god
Elegy on Mr William Cruikshank A.M.
Elegy on Peg Nicholson
Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
Elegy On The Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo
Elegy on the year 1788
Ellibanks
English Song
English Song
Epigram
Epigram Addressed To An Artist
Epigram. Another On The Said Occasion
Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, The Celebrated Antiquary
Epigram on Mr James Gracie
Epigram On Rough Roads
Epigram On Said Occasion
Epigrams on Lord Galloway
Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns
Epistle To A Young Friend
Epistle to Captain William Logan at Park
Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
Epistle to Dr Blacklock
Epistle to Hugh Parker
Epistle To J. Lapraik
Epistle to James Smith
Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
Epistle to John Ranken
Epistle to Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee, Author of a Defence of Mary Queen of Scots
Epistle to Robert Graham Esq: of Fintry on the Election of the Dumfries string of Boroughs, Anno 1790
Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
Epitaph
Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton Esq
Epitaph for Hugh Logan
Epitaph for J H Writer in Ayr
Epitaph For Mr Walter Riddell
Epitaph for Robert Aiken Esq;
Epitaph for the Author's Father
Epitaph For William Nicol
Epitaph. Here lies Robert Fergusson, Poet
Epitaph on a Celebrated Ruling Elder
Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic
Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
Epitaph on D- C-
Epitaph On Holy Willie
Epitaph on John Bushby Esq
Epitaph on John Dove, Innkeeper
Epitaph on Mr Burton
Epitaph on my own friend, and my father's friend, William Muir in Tarbolton
Epitaph On Robert Muir
Epitaph on Tam the Chapman
Epitaph on Wee Johnie
Epitaph On Wm. Graham, Esq of Mossknowe
Eppie Mcnab
Errock Brae
Esteem For Chloris
Extempore
Extempore epistle to Mr McAdam of Craigengillan
Extempore, in the Court of Session
Extempore - On being shown a beautiful Country seat belonging to Maxwell of Cardoness
Extempore - on some commemorations of Thomson
Extempore (on The Loyal Natives' Verses)
Extempore reply to an invitation
Extempore to Mr Gavin Hamilton
Fair Eliza
Fair Jenny
Fairest Maid on Devon Banks
Farewell Thou Stream
Farewell to Eliza
Farewell to the Banks of Ayr
For the sake o' Somebody
Frae the friends and Land I love
Fragment
Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria
Fragment [Montgomery's Peggy]
Fragment [Now health forsakes that angel face]
Fragment - Why, Why Tell Thy Lover
Galloway Tam
Geordie - An old Ballad
Gie The Lass Her Fairing
Godly Girzie
Grace after Meat
Graces at the Globe Tavern
Green Grow The Rashes
Green grow the rashes [alternate version]
Green grow the rashes [an older edition]
Green Sleeves
Grim Grizzle
Gude Wallace
Gudeen to you kimmer
Had I a cave
Had I the wyte she bade me
Halloween
Handsome Nell
He Till't and She Till't
Here awa', there awa'
Here's a bottle and an honest friend
Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear
Here's a health to them that's awa
Here's His Health In Water
Here's to thy health my bonie lass
Hey Ca' thro
Hey for a Lass wi' a Tocher
Hey tuti tatey
Highland Laddie
Highland Lassie O
Highland Mary
Holy Willie's Prayer
How can I keep my maidenhead
How lang and dreary is the night
Hughie Graham
I do confess thou art sae fair
I Dream'd I Lay
I hae a wife o my ain
I look to the North
I Love My Jean
I Love My Love In Secret
I Rede you beware o' the Ripples
I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom
I'll Aye Ca' In By Yon Town
I'll mak you be fain to follow me
I'll Tell You a Tale of a Wife
I'm o'er young to Marry Yet
Impromptu On Mrs Riddell's Birthday, 4th November 1793
In answer to one who affirmed of a well-known Character here, Dr Babington, that there was Falsehood in his very looks
In the character of a ruined Farmer
Inconstancy in Love
Inscription on a Goblet
It is na, Jean, thy bonie face
It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
Jamie Come Try Me
Jenny Macraw
Jeremiah 15th, Ch 10 V
Jessie A New Scots Song
Jockey Fou and Jenny Fain
Jockey was a Bonny Lad
Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
John Anderson My Jo
John Anderson my Jo [alt]
John Barleycorn: A Ballad
John come kiss me now
Johnie Blunt
Johnie Cope
Johnie Scott
Jumpin John
Kellyburnbraes
Ken ye na our Lass, Bess?
Ken ye ought o' Captain Grose?
Killiecrankie
Lady Mary Ann
Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
Lassie lie near me
Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks
Leezie Lindsay
Let me in this ae night
Letter to James Tennant, Glenconner
Libel Summons
Lines Addressed to Mr John Ranken
Lines Inscribed In A Lady's Pocket Almanac
Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
Lines on Stirling
Lines on the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness
Lines sent to John Syme of Ryedale
Lines sent to Sir John Whiteford, of Whiteford, Bart
Lines To A Gentleman
Lines To An Old Sweetheart
Lines written in the kirk of Lamington
Lines Written on a Banknote
Lines Written on a window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries
Lines written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
Lines, wrote by Burns, while on his deathbed
Logan Braes
Logan Water
Lord Gregory
Lord Ronald My Son
Love In The Guise Of Friendship
Lovely Davies
Lovely Polly Stewart
Madgie cam to my bed stock
Man Was Made To Mourn
Mark Yonder Pomp
Mary Morison
McPherson's Farewell
Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
Monody on Maria
Muirland Meg
Musing On The Roaring Ocean
My Ain Kind Dearie
My Auntie Jean held to the shore
My Bonie Bell
My bony Mary
My Collier laddie
My Eppie
My Father was a Farmer
My girl she's airy
My Harry was a Gallant gay
My Heart's In The Highlands
My Lady's gown there's gairs upon't
My love she's but a lassie yet
My Luve is like a Red Red Rose
My Nanie, O
My Nanie's Awa
My Peggy's Face
My Tochers the Jewel
My Wife's a wanton wee thing
My wife's a winsome wee thing
Nae Hair On't
Nature's Law
Nithsdale's Welcome Hame
No Churchman am I
No Cold Approach
O An Ye Were Dead Gudeman
O ay my wife she dang me
O Bonie was yon rosy brier
O can ye labour lea
O Can Ye Labour Lee, Young Man
O dear Minny, what shall I do?
O, for ane and twenty Tam
O Gat ye me wi' naething
O gin I had her
O gude ale comes and gude ale goes
O ken ye what Meg o' the mill has gotten
O Kenmure's On And Awa , Willie
O lay thy loof in mine lass
O Leave Novels
O Mally's meek, Mally's sweet
O May thy morn
O poortith cauld and restless love
O Raging Fortune's Withering Blast
O Saw ye bonie Lesley
O saw ye my Maggie
O Steer Her Up
O That I Had Ne'er Been Married
O this is no my ain lassie
O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
O wat ye wha that lo'es me
O wat ye wha's in yon town
O, were I on Parnassus Hill
O were my Love yon Lilack fair
O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast
O Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad
Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit night
Ode [For General Washington's Birthday]
Ode, sacred to the memory of Mrs Oswald of Auchencruive
Ode to Spring
Ode to the departed Regency bill 1789
O'er the Water to Charlie
On A Bank Of Flowers
On A Dog Of Lord Eglingtons
On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire
On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies
On a Suicide One
On a Suicide Two
On An Innkeeper In Tarbolton
On An Innkeeper Nicknamed The Marquis
On Andrew Turner
On being asked why God had made Miss D so little and Mrs A so big
On Captain Lascelles
On Captain William Roddirk of Corbiston
On Chloris being ill
On Chloris requesting me to give her a spray of a sloe-thorn in full blossom
On Commissary Goldie's Brains
On Fergusson A
On Fergusson B
On Findlater
On Gabriel Richardson
On James. Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton
On Jessy Lewars
On John McMurdo
On John Morine, laird of Laggan
On Johnson's Opinion of Hampden
On Marriage
On Maxwell of Cardoness
On Miss J. Scott, of Ayr
On Miss PK
On Miss Wilhelmina Alexander
On Mr Pit's hair-powder tax
On Robert Riddel
On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch Turit
On Seeing A Wounded Hare
On seeing Miss Fontenelle in a Favourite Character
On seeing Mrs Kemble in Yarico
On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of Family-Distress
On the death of Echo, a Lap-dog
On the death of John M'Leod, Esq.
On the death of the late Lord President Dundas
On the Duchess of Gordon's Reel Dancing
On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
On the seas and far away
On Wee Johnie
On Willie Chalmers
One Night As I Did Wander
Open the door to me oh
Orananaoig, or The Song of Death
Our gudewife's sae modest
Our John's Brak Yestreen
Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
Passion's Cry
Pegasus at Wanlockhead
Phillis The Fair
Philly And Willy
Pinned to Mrs Riddell's carriage
Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries
Poem on Life
Poem On Pastoral Poetry
Poetical Inscription, for An Altar to Independence at Kerroughtree, the Seat of Mr Heron, written in summer 1795
Poor Mailie's Elegy
Prayer - O Thou Dread Power [Lying at a Rev. Friend's house one night, the author left the following verses in the room where he slept]
Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries
Prologue spoken by Mr Woods
Put Butter In My Donald's Brose
Rantin' Rovin' Robin
Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
Raving winds around her blowing
Remorse
Reply to Robert Riddell [Robert Burns]
Revision for Clarinda
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
Robert Burns' Answer [to 'Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns']
Robin shure in hairst
Rusticity's ungainly Form
Sae Far Awa
Sandy and Jockie
Saw Ye My Phely
Scotch Drink
Scotch Song
Scotish Ballad
Scotish Song
Scots Ballad
Scots Prologue, for Mrs Sutherland's Benefit Night
Scroggam
Second Epistle to Davie
Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
Sensibility how charming
She Rose and Loot Me In
She says she lo'es me best of a'
She's fair and fause
She's Hoy'd Me Out O' Lauderdale
Sic a wife as Willie's Wife
Sketch
Sketch for an Elegy
Sketch. Inscribed to the Right Hon. Ch. J. Fox Esq.
Sketch New Year's Day. To Mrs Dunlop
Song composed at Auchtertyre on Miss Euphemia Murray of Lentrose
Song [Tho' women's minds, like winter winds]
Sonnet On Hearing A Thrush Sing
Sonnet, on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glen Riddel, April 1974
Stanzas On the Same Occasion
Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me
Strathallan's Lament
Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
Supper is na ready
Sutors o' Selkirk
Sweet Afton
Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn
Sweetest May
Sylvander to Clarinda
Tail Todle
Tam Glen
Tam Lin
Tam o' Shanter
Tam Samson's Elegy
The Answer, to the Guidwife of Wauchope-House
The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
The Auld Man's mare's dead
The auld man's winter thought
The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
The Banks O' Doon (First Version)
The Banks O' Doon (Second Version)
The Banks O' Doon (Third Version)
The Banks of Nith
The Banks of the Devon
The Battle Of Sherramuir
The Belles of Mauchline
The Birks of Aberfeldy
The Blue-Eyed Lassie
The Bob o'Dumblane
The bonie lad that's far awa
The Bonie Lass Made The Bed To Me
The Bonie Moor-Hen
The Bonie Wee Thing
The Bonniest Lass
The Book Worms
The Braes o' Ballochmyle
The Braw Wooer
The Brigs of Ayr
The Calf
The Campbells are coming
The Captain's Lady
The Cardin' O't, the Spinnin' O't
The Cares o' Love
The Charming Month Of May
The Couper o Cuddy
The Cooper o' Dundee
The Cotter's Saturday Night
The Dean Of The Faculty
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe, An Unco Mournfu' Tale
The Deil's awa wi' the Exciseman
The Deuks dang o'er my Daddie
The Farewell
The Farewell. To the Brethren of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton
The fete champetre
The First Psalm
The Five Carlins
The Fornicator
The Gallant Weaver
The Gardener wi' his paidle
The German Lairdie
The Gowden Locks of Anna
The Guidwife of Wauchope-House, to Robert Burns, the Airshire Bard
The Henpecked Husband
The Heron Ballads : Buy Braw Troggin
The Heron Ballads : John Bushby's Lamentation
The Heron Ballads : The Election : A New Song
The Heron Ballads : Wham will we send to London town
The Highland Balou
The Highland Widow's Lament
The Holy Fair
The Holy Tulzie
The Hue and Cry of John Lewars
The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
The Inventory
The Jolly Beggars : Fiddlers Tune
The Jolly Beggars : I am a bard of no regard
The Jolly Beggars : I am a son of Mars
The Jolly Beggars : John Highlandman
The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata
The Jolly Beggars : Merry Andrew
The Jolly Beggars : My Bonie Lass I Work in Brass
The Jolly Beggars : See the Smoking Bowl Before us
The Jolly Beggars : Sir Wisdom's a fool when he's fou
The Jolly Beggars : Sodger Laddie
The Jolly Gauger
The Keekin Glass
The Kirk of Scotland's Garland
The laddies by the banks o' Nith
The Lament. Occasioned by the Unfortunate Issue of a Friend's Amour
The Lass o' Liviston
The Lass of Cessnock Banks
The Lass of Ecclefechan
The Lassie Gath'ring Nits
The Lazy Mist
The lea-rig
The Linkin' Laddie
The Lovely Lass o' Inverness
The Lovers morning salute to his Mistress
The Mauchline Wedding
The Mill Mill-O. Original
The Minstrel at Lincluden
The Modiewark
The Night was still
The Ninetieth Psalm
The Northern Lass
The Ordination
The Patriarch
The Ploughman
The Ploughman - merry muses
The Ploughman's Life
The Posie
The Primrose
The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O't
The Rantin Laddie
The Reel O' Stumpie
The Rights of Woman
The Ronalds of the Bennals
The Rosebud
The rowin't in her apron
The Seventh of November
The Shepherd's Wife
The Slave's Lament
The small birds rejoice
The Solemn League and Covenant
The Sons of Old Killie
The Tailor
The Tarbolton Lasses
The Taylor
The Taylor fell thro' the bed
The Toadeater
The Tree of Liberty
The Trogger
The Twa Dogs
The Twa Herds
The Vision
The Vision Suppressed
The Weary Pund O Tow
The Whistle
The White Cockade
The Winter It Is Past
The Wren's Nest (Fragment)
The Yellow, yellow Yorlin'
The Young Highland Rover
Their groves o' sweet myrtle
Then Guidwife count the lawin
Theniel Menzies bonie Mary
There Cam A Cadger
There cam a Soger
There Grows A Bonnie Brier Bush
There was a bonie lass
There Was Twa Wives
There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
There's a youth in this city
There's hair on't
There's news lasses news
There's three true gude fellows
They took me to the Haly Band
Thine am I, my Chloris fair
Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
Thou Gloomy December
Thou Hast Left Me Ever Jamie
Though fickle fortune has deceived me
Tibbie Dunbar
Tibbie Fowler
To a Louse
To A Mountain Daisy
To a Mouse
To a painter
To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars
To Alexander Cunningham
To Alexander Findlater
To Capt Gordon on being asked why I was not to be one of the party with him and his brother Kenmure at Syme's
To Captain Riddell
To Chloris
To Clarinda
To Daunton Me
To Dr John MacKenzie
To Dr Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery
To John Kennedy
To John Syme [A]
To Maria
To Mary in Heaven
To Miss Ainslie, in Church
To Miss Cruickshank, a very young Lady
To Miss Ferrier
To Miss Graham of Fintry
To Miss Isabella MacLeod
To Miss Logan
To Mr E - on his translation of and commentaries on Martial
To Mr Gavin Hamilton. Mauchline
To Mr Graham of Fintry, On being appointed to my Excise Division
To Mr John Kennedy
To Mr McMurdo, with a pound of Lundiefoot Snuff
To Mr S Mackenzie
To Mrs C
To Peter Stuart
To Renton of Lamerton
To Robert Graham of Fintry Esq
To Robert Graham Esq of Fintry Esq with a Request for an Excise Division
To Ruin
To Symon Gray
To Terraughty, on his birthday
To the beautiful Miss Eliza J-n, on her principles of liberty and equality
To the Hon Mr RM, of Panmure, on his high Phaeton
To the Memory of the Unfortunate Miss Burns
To the Weaver's gin ye go
To W. Simpson, Ochiltree
To William Stewart
Twas na her bonie blue e'e
Tweedmouth Town
Up and warn a' Willie
Up In The Morning Early
Verses addressed to J Ranken
Verses intended to be written below a noble Earl's picture
Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron
Verses written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece, In the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth
Versicles on Sign-posts
Wad ye do that?
Wae is my heart
Wee Willie Gray
We're a' gaun southie, O
Wha is that at my bower door?
Wha the Deil can hinder the wind to blaw?
Wha'll Mow Me Now
What can a young lassie do wi' an auld man
What will I do gin my Hoggie die
When Princes and Prelates
When she cam ben she bobbed
When Wild War's Deadly Blast Was Blawn
Where braving angry Winter's Storms
Where Helen Lies
Whistle O'er The Lave O't
Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary
Will ye na can ye na let me be
Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut
Wilt thou be my Dearie
Winter A Dirge
Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage
Written Under The Picture of the Celebrated Miss Burns
Ye hae lien wrang, Lassie
Ye Jacobites By Name
Ye'se get a hole to hide it in
Yon wild mossy mountains
Yon, yon, yon lassie
Young Jockey was the blythest lad
You're welcome, Willie Stewart
