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108111354.23.Pdf P&S.I.J5. IU.<f '3- zr ^joji uf$ * A 8r2»fun .'A - ; % O lb T IB 'if :r sj 3 AS X7 ) , C: S’n i* "~ *~r&Cf’T ^ ^ tew I lore thee. ieaAy■ pajl £ ondon; Pntmd for Dean /c Munday. ThreadneedU' Stood, 1821. THE POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. A NEW EDITION. PRINTED AND SOLD BY DEAN AND MUNDAT, THREADNEEDLE-STREtT. 1851. $r.< t DEDICATION. TO THfc NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN OF THE CALEDONIAN HUNT. My Lords and Gentlemen, A Scottish Bard, proud of the name, and whose high- est ambition is to sing in his Country’s service—where shall he so properly look for patronage, as to the illus- trious names of his native land; those who bear the honours, and inherit the virtues, of tlieir Ancestors? The Poetic Genius of my Country found me, as the prophetic bard Elijah did Elisha—at the plough ; and threw her inspiring mantle over me. She bade me sing the loves, the joys, the rural scenes, and rural plea, sures of my native soil, in my native tongue : I tuned my wild, artless notes, as she inspired—She whispered me to come to this ancient Metropolis of Caledonia, and lay my Songs under your honoured protection. I now obey her dictates. Though much indebted to your goodness, I do not i approach you, my Lords and Gentlemen, in the usual i style of Dedication, to thank you for past favours: that path is so hackneyed by prostituted Learning, that ho- nest Rusticity is ashamed of it. Nor do I present this 6 CONTENTS. A Whiter Night •• 132 Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet 135 The Lament ••••.• .... 140 Despondency, an Ode 143 Man was made to Mourn, a Dirge 145 A Prayer in the Prospect of Death •«• • 149 Stanzas on the same Occasion 150 Verses lift at a Friend’s House 151 The First Psalm •* • • • • ••• •••• 153 'J'kcfirst six Verses of the Ninetieth Psalm • 153 . To a Mountain Daisy 154 To Buhi * • .... •••• •••• .... 156 To Miss Logan ........ 157 Epistle to a Young Friend ib. A Prayer under the pressure of violent anguish 160 On a Scottish Bard, gone to the West Indies • 161 To a Hagg is 163 Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esrj 165 To a Louse ..... «... «... «..« 1C9 Address to Edinburgh 170 Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard 173 To the same • • • 177 To William Simpson, Ochiltree 181 Epistle to John Rankin, inclosing some Poems 188 Written in Friars Carse Hermitage, Nithsidc 191 Ode, sacred, to the Memory of Mrs. of 193 CONTENTS. 7 Elegy on Captain M. Henderson • • • • • • • 194 Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots 199 To Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry 201 Lament for James, Earl of Glcncairn .... 203 Lines, sent to Sir John Whit ford of White- ford, Bart, with the foregoing Poem • • • • 206 Tam o' Shunter, a Talc 207 On seeing a wounded Hare limp by me • • • • 214 Address to the Shade of Thomson 215 On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations through Scotland 216 To Miss Cruiekshanks, a very young Lady 218 On reading, in a Newspaper, the Death of John M’Lcod, Esq. • 219 The humble Petition of Bruar Water 220 On scaring some Water-Fowl in Loeh-Turit, 223 Written with a Pencil, over a Chimney-piece in the Inn at Kcnmorc, Taymouth 224 Written with a Pencil, standing by the Fall of Fi/res, near Loch-Ness 225 On the Birth of a Posthumous Child .... 226 Second Epistle to Davie, a Brother Poet ... 227 The Inventory 229 Address to the Tooth -ache 231 Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder .... 232 — on Wee Johnny .... 233 —for the Author’s Father • • • • ib. 8 CONTENTS. Epitaph for Robert Aitkin, Esq. 233 for Gavin Hamilton, Esq 234 A Bard’s Epitaph ib. SONGS. John Barleycorn 235 A Fragment, When Guilford good, Sfc 237 The Rigs o’ Barley 240 Now ivestlin Winds, and slaught’ring Guns 241 My Nannie, O 242 Green grow the Rashes, a Fragment 244 Again rejoicing Nature secs 243 The gloomy Night is gat h’ring fast 246 From thee, Eliza, I must go 248 The Eareicell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton ib. No Churchman am Ifor to rail and to write 250 Highland Mary 251 THE LIFE OF This celebrated Bard was born on the 25th of January, 1759, on the banks of the Boon, about two miles from Ayr, near to which stand the ruins of Alloway Kirk, rendered immortal by his admirable Tale of “ Tam o' Shunter.” His father, William Burns, was a farmer in Ayr- shire, a man of very respectable character, and of more than ordinary information and capacity. It is stated by Burns, that to his father’s observations and experience he was indebted for most of his little pre- tensions to wisdom. From such a son this eulogium cannot be thought undeserving. In 1757, he married Agues Brown. Our Poet was the first fruit of this union. He was sent to school when about six years old, where he was taught to read English, and write a little ; and so great was his progress, that he became a critic in English Grammar at the age of eleven, and was also remarkable for the correctness of his pronun- ciation. His rudiments of arithmetic he got from his father in the winter evenings. He says of himself, in his letter to Dr. Moore, “ At those years I was by no means a favourite with any body. I was a good deal noted for a retentive memory, a stubborn sturdy some- thing in my disposition, and an enthusiastic, idiot piety: I say idiot piety, because I was then but a child. Though it cost the school master some thrash- ing, I made an excellent English scholar; and by the time I was ten or eleven years of age, I was a critic in substantives, verbs, and participles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition. She had, I X THE LIFE OF suppose, the largest collection in the country, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead- lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, giants, en- chanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latmt seeds of poetry; but had so strong an effect on my imagination, that to this hour, in my nocturnal rambles, I sometimes keep a sharp look out in suspicions places; and though nobody fan be more sceptical than I am in such matters, yet it often takes an effort of philosophy to shake off these idle terrors.” Before he was nine years of age, he had acquired a strong propensity for reading, which, however, was greatly cheeked by his want of access to books. He read the life of Hannibal through with great avidity, and devoured every other book that came in his way, with an eagerness truly astonishing. Even, at this early period, his sensibility was extraordinary; yet he had not discovered any signs of that striking ready wit for which he was afterwards remarkable, nor be- trayed the smallest symptom of his inclination to mu- sic and poetry. Mr. Murdoch, to whom our poet was indebted for the rudiments of his education, remarks, that ‘‘Gilbert (his brother) always appeared to me to possess a more lively imagination, and to be more of the wit than Robert. I attempted to teach them a little church music. Here they were left far behind by all the rest of the school. Robert’s ear in particular, was remarkably dull, and his voice untnnable. It was long before I could get him to distinguish one tune from another. Robert’s face was generally grave, and expressive of a serious, contemplative, and thought- ful mind. Gilbert’s face said, “ Mirth, with thee I mean to live!” and certainly, if any person who knew the two boys, had been asked which of them was the most likely to court the Muse, he would surely never have supposed that Robert had a propensity of that kind.” From this gentleman he likewise got a little smattering of French, of which he was very fond. He w'as now so far grounded in his education, that when Mr. Murdoch left that part of the country, he, at his leisure hours, undertook instructing his younger bro- thers and sisters at home, in what he had himself ac- quired. ROBERT BURNS. XI At Whitsuntide, 1766, our Poet’s father, who for eight years had acted as gardener and overseer to Mr. Fergnsson of Denholm, obtained from that gentle- man a lease of the small farm of Mount Oliphaut, in Ayrshire, as an acknowledgment of his faithful ser- vices. He also advanced ^lOO, to enable him to stock his farm. Here he continued to struggle for the sup- port of his family, which consisted of a wife and six children, for the space of eleven years. The soil of this farm was extremely barren. This, with the loss of cattle, and other accidents, involved them in ma- ny difficulties. To combat these, the whole family observed the most rigid economy, abstaining from butcher-meat for years together, and toiling early and late. However, notwithstanding all their joint exer- tions, it proved a ruinous concern. To add to their misfortunes, their patron and friend Mr. Fergusson died, and they fell into the hands of a merciless fac- tor, whose picture is so ably drawn in the tale of the “ Twa Dogs.” The first circumstance which induced our Poet to string his lyre, and taught him to warble “ wood notes wild!” at the age of fifteen, is extremely interesting.
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