Introductory Note

     1771 - 1779

     Song--Handsome Nell
     Song--O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day
     Song--I Dream'd I Lay
     Song--I Dream'd I Lay
     Song--In The Character Of A Ruined Farmer
     Tragic Fragment--All villain as I am
     The Tarbolton Lasses
     Ah, Woe Is Me, My Mother Dear
     Song--Montgomerie's Peggy
     The Ploughman's Life

     1780

     The Ronalds Of The Bennals
     Song--Here's To Thy Health
     Song--The Lass Of Cessnock Banks
     Song--Bonie Peggy Alison
     Song--Mary Morison

     1781

     Winter: A Dirge
     A Prayer, Under The Pressure Of Violent Anguish
     Paraphrase Of The First Psalm
     The First Six Verses Of The Ninetieth Psalm Versified
     Prayer, In The Prospect Of Death
     Stanzas, On The Same Occasion

     1782
     Fickle Fortune: A Fragment
     Song--Raging Fortune--Fragment Of
     I'll Go And Be A Sodger
     Song--"No Churchman Am I"
     My Father Was A Farmer
     John Barleycorn: A Ballad

     1783

     Death And Dying Words Of Poor Mailie
     Poor Mailie's Elegy
     Song--The Rigs O' Barley
     Song Composed In August
     Song--My Nanie, O!
     Song--Green Grow The Rashes
     Song--Wha Is That At My Bower-Door

     1784

     Remorse: A Fragment
     Epitaph On Wm. Hood, Senr., In Tarbolton
     Epitaph On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton
     Epitaph On My Own Friend And My Father's Friend, Wm. Muir In Tarbolton
       Mill
     Epitaph On My Ever Honoured Father
     Ballad On The American War
     Reply To An Announcement By J. Rankine
     Epistle To John Rankine
     A Poet's Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter^1
     Song--O Leave Novels!
     The Mauchline Lady: A Fragment
     My Girl She's Airy: A Fragment
     The Belles Of Mauchline
     Epitaph On A Noisy Polemic
     Epitaph On A Henpecked Country Squire
     Epigram On The Said Occasion
     Another On The said Occasion
     On Tam The Chapman
     Epitaph On John Rankine
     Lines On The Author's Death
     Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge
     The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie

     1785

     Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
     Holy Willie's Prayer
     Epitaph On Holy Willie
     Death and Doctor Hornbook
     Epistle To J. Lapraik, An Old Scottish Bard
     Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
     Epistle To William Simson
     One Night As I Did Wander
     Tho' Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part
     Song--Rantin', Rovin' Robin
     Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
     Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
     The Holy Fair
     Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
     Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
     Second Epistle to Davie
     Song--Young Peggy Blooms
     Song--Farewell To Ballochmyle
     Fragment--Her Flowing Locks
     Halloween
     To A Mouse
     Epitaph On John Dove, Innkeeper
     Epitaph For James Smith
     Adam Armour's Prayer
     The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata
     Song--For A' That
     Song--Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle
     The Cotter's Saturday Night
     Address To The Deil
     Scotch Drink