British Literature

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• Under the Greenwood Tree
• Hard Times
• Tales: Sketches of Young Couples
• To Flowers from Italy in Winter
• Where they Lived
• On the Way
• Astley's
• Channel Firing
• The Passer-By
• The Musical Box
• To a Well-Named Dwelling
• The Voice of the Thorn
• Characters: A Christmas Dinner
• A Thought in Two Moods
• The Rival
• Shut out that Moon
• Murmurs in the Gloom
• The Dame of Athelhall
• The Sergeant's Song
• Desperate Remedies
• Wives in the Sere
• The Second Nun's Tale
• Near Lanivet, 1872
• To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt
• Scenes: Gin-Shops
• In the Days of Crinoline
• Welcome Home
• The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
• I Need not Go
• The Dream is-Which?
• The Child and the Sage
• The Homecoming
• Sapphic Fragment
• A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four
• Over the Coffin
• The Coronation
• I was not He
• A Wet August
• The Ruined Maid
• The Master and the Leaves
• Fire in the Thatch
• Handsome Nell
• O Tibbie, I Hae Seen the Day
• I Dream'D I Lay
• In the Character of a Ruined Farmer
• Tragic Fragment
• The Tarbolton Lasses
• Ah, Woe is me, my Mother Dear
• Montgomerie's Peggy
• The Ploughman's Life
• The Ronalds of the Bennals
• Here's to Thy Health
• Mary Morison
• Fickle Fortune: a Fragment
• I'll Go and be a Sodger
• No Churchman am I
• A Stanza Added in a Mason Lodge
• My Father was a Farmer
• John Barleycorn: a Ballad
• Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
• Poor Mailie's Elegy
• My Nanie, O
• Green Grow the Rashes
• Wha is that at my Bower-Door
• Remorse: a Fragment
• Epitaph on Wm. Hood, Senr., in 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
• O Leave Novels
• The Mauchline Lady
• My Girl she's Airy
• The Belles of Mauchline
• One Queen Artemisia, as Old Stories Tell
• 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
• 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
• One Night as I did Wander
• Tho' Cruel Fate should Bid Us Part
• 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
• Young Peggy Blooms
• Farewell to Ballochmyle
• Her Flowing Locks
• Halloween
• To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest with the Plough
• Epitaph for James Smith
• Adam Armour's Prayer
• The Jolly Beggars: a Cantata
• For a' That
• Merry Hae I been Teethin a Heckle
• The Cotter's Saturday Night
• Address to the Deil
• Scotch Drink
• The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation to his Auld Mare, Maggie
• The Twa Dogs
• The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
• The Ordination
• Epistle to James Smith
• The Vision
• Suppressed Stanza's of "the Vision"
• The Rantin' Dog, the Daddie o'T
• Here's his Health in Water
• Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous

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