Robert Burns: How to Know Him

About this eBook

Author

Neilson, William Allan, 1869-1946

Title

Robert Burns: How To Know Him

Credits

Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Laura Wisewell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Burns, Robert, 1759-1796

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18388

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18388

Release Date

May 14, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.ROBERT BURNS HOW TO KNOW HIM
2. 2.LIST OF POEMS
3. 3.CONTENTS — ROBERT BURNS
4. 4.CHAPTER I BIOGRAPHY — 1. Alloway, Mount Oliphant, and Lochlea — THE COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT — HANDSOME NELL — THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR'S ONLY PET YOWE — POOR MAILIE'S ELEGY — MARY MORISON — MY NANNIE O — THE RIGS O' BARLEY — 2. Mossgiel — A PRAYER IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH — THE POET'S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER — WILL YE GO TO THE INDIES, MY MARY? — THE GLOOMY NIGHT — ON A SCOTCH BARD, GONE TO THE WEST INDIES — 3. Edinburgh — AE FOND KISS — MY NANNIE'S AWA — CLARINDA — 4. Ellisland — I HAE A WIFE — 5. Dumfries
5. 5.CHAPTER II INHERITANCE: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE — GO FETCH TO ME A PINT O' WINE
6. 6.CHAPTER III BURNS AND SCOTTISH SONG — AULD LANG SYNE — MY LOVE IS LIKE A RED RED ROSE — YESTREEN I HAD A PINT O' WINE — OF A' THE AIRTS — O THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE — POORTITH CAULD — MY WIFE'S A WINSOME WEE THING — HIGHLAND MARY — TO MARY IN HEAVEN — CA' THE YOWES (Second Version) — AFTON WATER — THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE — BONNIE LESLEY — LASSIE WI' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS — MONTGOMERIE'S PEGGY — THE LEA-RIG — AULD ROB MORRIS — O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST — GREEN GROW THE RASHES — THERE WAS A LAD — CONTENTED WI' LITTLE — MY FATHER WAS A FARMER — O FOR ANE AN' TWENTY, TAM! — YE BANKS AND BRAES (Second Version) — (Third Version) — SIMMER'S A PLEASANT TIME — WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YE, MY LAD — TAM GLEN — THE RANTIN' DOG THE DADDIE O'T — LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER — FOR THE SAKE O' SOMEBODY — OPEN THE DOOR TO ME, O! — WANDERING WILLIE — HOW LANG AND DREARY — THE BONNIE LAD THAT'S FAR AWA — BRAW BRAW LADS — MY HEART'S IN THE HIGHLANDS — WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE — TO DAUNTON ME — I'M OWRE YOUNG TO MARRY YET — MY LOVE SHE'S BUT A LASSIE YET — BESSY AND HER SPINNIN'-WHEEL — JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO — THE WEARY PUND O' TOW — O MERRY HAE I BEEN — HAD I THE WYTE? — MACPHERSON'S FAREWELL — THE HIGHLAND BALOU — DUNCAN GRAY — DUNCAN DAVISON — THE DE'IL'S AWA WI' TH' EXCISEMAN — COMIN' THROUGH THE RYE — THE DEUK'S DANG O'ER MY DADDIE — WHA IS THAT AT MY BOWER DOOR? — WILLIE'S WIFE — A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT — SCOTS, WHA HAE ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY, BEFORE THE BATTLE OF BANNOCKBURN — IT WAS A' FOR OUR RIGHTFU' KING — COME BOAT ME O'ER TO CHARLIE — THE HIGHLAND LADDIE — BANNOCKS O' BARLEY — KENMURE'S ON AND AWA — THERE'LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME — I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN — CHARLIE HE'S MY DARLING
7. 7.CHAPTER IV SATIRES AND EPISTLES — HOLY WILLIE'S PRAYER — ADDRESS TO THE UNCO GUID, OR THE RIGIDLY RIGHTEOUS — TO THE REV. JOHN M'MATH — EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET — EPISTLE TO A YOUNG FRIEND — ON JOHN DOVE, INNKEEPER
8. 8.CHAPTER V DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE POETRY — HALLOWEEN [4] — FOOT-NOTES TO HALLOWEEN — THE TWA DOGS — THE HOLY FAIR — WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT — THE JOLLY BEGGARS A Cantata — TAM O' SHANTER A Tale — TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, NOVEMBER, 1785 — TO A LOUSE On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church — TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY On Turning One Down With a Plough in April, 1786 — THE AULD FARMER'S NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE. — ADDRESS TO THE DEIL — DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK — TAM SAMSON'S ELEGY — ELEGY ON CAPT. MATTHEW HENDERSON, A Gentleman Who Held the Patent for His Honours Immediately From Almighty God — SCOTCH DRINK — TO A HAGGIS — A BARD'S EPITAPH
9. 9.CHAPTER VI CONCLUSION — THE END
10. 10.INDEX

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