The Poetry of Robert Burns Edited by William Ernest Henley And
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// 3 BOUGHT WITH THE INCOME FROM THE SAGE ENDOWMENT FUND THE GIET OF Henrs W. Sage 1891 A,Z.&..;rj/^... J///A/.... ^ THE CENTENARY BURNS [All rights reserved] LIBRAI^y EDITION Limited to 600 copies for United Kingdom and 160 copies for America li'o.... US. Cornell University Library The original of tliis book is in tine Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924013446434 'j^alJ^ffrtrazt GaMejj:London. y2f2 ij^Sj^z in^J THE POETRY OF ROBERT BURNS EDITED BY WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY AND THOMAS F. HENDERSON VOLUME III SONGS Johnson's musical museum 1787:1803 Thomson's scottish airs 1793:1818 BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY EDINBURGH : T. C. AND E. C. JACK 1897 cc f\A OtS-Hl^ CONTENTS PAGE YOUNG PEGGV . 1 BONIE DUNDEE 2 TO THE weaver's GIN YE GO 3 WHISTLE an' I 'LL COME TO YOU, MY LAD 5 1 'm o'er young to MARRY YET 6 the birks of aberfeldie 7 Mcpherson's farewell 9 MY highland lassie, O - 10 THO' cruel FATE 12 STAY MY CHARMER 12 STKATHALLAN's LAMENT 13 MY HOGGIE 14 JUMPIN JOHN . 14. UP IN THE MORNING EARLY 15 THE YOUNG HIGHLAND ROVER 16 THE DUSTY MILLER 17 I DREAM'd I LAY id DUNCAN DAVISON 19 THENIEL MENZIEs' BONIE M'ARY 20 LADY ONLIEj HONEST LUCKY 21 THE BANKS OF THE DEVON 22 DUNCAN GRAY (fIRST SET) 23 VI CONTENTS PAGE THE PLOUGHMAN LANDLADY, COUNT THE LAWIN . 25 RAVING VriNDS AROUND HER BLOWING 26 HOW LANG AND DREARY IS THE NIGHT 27 MUSING ON THE ROARING OCEAN 28 BLYTHE WAS SHE 29 TO DAUNTON ME 30 o'er THE WATER TO CHARLIE . 32 A ROSE-BUD, BY MY EARLY WALK 33 AND I 'LL KISS THEE YET 34, RATTLIN, ROARIN WILLIE 35 WHERE, BRAVING ANGRY WINTER's STORMS 36 TIBBIE, I HAE SEEN THE DAY - 37 CLARINDA, MISTRESS OF MY SOUL 39 THE WINTER IT IS PAST 40 1 LOVE MY LOVE IN SECRET 41 SWEET TIBBIE DUNBAR 42 HIGHLAND HARRY 42 THE TAILOR FELL THRo' THE BED 44. AY WAUKIN O . 45 BEWARE o' BONIE ANN . 46 LADDIE, LIE NEAR ME . 47 THE GARD'nER WI' HIS PAIDLE . 48 ON A BANK OF FLOWERS 49 THE DAY RETURNS 50 MY LOVE, SHE 's BUT A LASSIE YET 51 JAMIE, COME TRY ME . 52 THE SILVER TASSIE 53 THE LAZY MIST 54 CONTENTS Vll PACE TUE captain's lady . 55 OF a' the airts 56 CARL, AN THE KING COME 57 WHISTLE o'er the LAVE o't 58 O, WERE I ON PARNASSUS HILL 59 THE CAPTIVE RIBBAND . 60 THERE 'S A YOUTH IN THIS CITY 61 MY HEART 's IN THE HIGHLANDS 62 JOHN ANDERSON MY JO 63 AWA, WHIGS, AWA 64 Ca' THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES (fIRST set) 65 O, MERRY HAE I BEEN . 66 A mother's LAMENT . 67 THE WHITE COCKADE . 68 THE BRAES o' BALLOCHMYLE 69 THE RANTIN DOG, THE DADDIE o't 70 THOU ling' RING STAR . 71 EPPIE ADAIR . 72 THE BATTLE OF SHERRAMUIR 73 YOUNG JOCKIE WAS THE BLYTHEST LAD 76 A WAUKRIFE MINNIE 77 THO' women's minds . 78 WILLIE BREW'd A PECK o' MAUT 80 KILHECRANKIE 81 THE BLUE-EYED LASSIE 82 THE BANKS OF NITH 83 TAM GLEN 84 CRAIGIEBURN WOOD 86 FRAE THE FRIENDS AND LAND I LOVE 88 vm CONTENTS PAGE JOHN, COME KISS ME NOW 88 COCK UP YOUR BEAVER 89 MY TOCHER 's THE JEWEL 90 GUIDWIFE, COUNT THE LAWIN . 91 there'll never BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME ..." 92 WHAT CAN A YOUNG LASSIE 93 THE BONIE LAD THAT 's FAR AWA 94 1 DO CONFESS THOU ART SAfc FAIR 96 SENSIBILITY HOW CHARMING 96 YON WILD MOSSY MOUNTAINS 97 I HAE BEEN AT CROOKIEDEN 99 IT IS NAj JEAN, THY BONIE FACE 100 MY EPPIE MACNAB ioi WHA IS THAT AT MY BOWER DOOR 102 BONIE WEE THING 103 THE TITHER MORN 104 Ae' FOND KISS . 105 LOVELY DAVIES 106 THE WEARY PUND o' TOW 108 I HAE A WIFE o' MY AIN 109 WHEN SHE CAM BEN, SHE BOBBED 110 O, FOR ANE-AND-TWENTY, TAM 111 O, KENMURE 's ON AND AWA, WILLIE 112 O, LEEZE ME ON MY SPINNIN-WHEEL 114 MY COLLIER LADDIE 115 NITHSDALe's welcome HAME . 117 IN SIMMER WHEN THE HAY WAS MAWN 117 FAIR ELIZA 119 CONTENTS IX PAGE YK JACOBITES BY NAME 120 THE POSIE 122 THE BANKS o' DOON 124 WILLIE WASTLE 125 LADY MARY ANN 126 SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION 127 KELLYBURN BRAES 129 THE slave's LAMENT . 132 THE SONG OF DEATH 133 SWEET AFTON . 134 BONIE BELL 135 THE GALLANT WEAVER 136 HEY, Ca' THRo' 137 O, CAN YE LABOUR LEA 138 THE DEUK 'S DANG o'eR MY DADDIE 139 SHE 'S FAIR AND PAUSE 140 THE DEIL 'S AWA Wl' Th' EXCISEMAN 141 THE LOVELY LASS OF INVERNESS 142 A RED, RED ROSE 143 AS I STOOD BY YON ROOFLESS TOWER 144 O, AN YE WERE DEAD, GUIDMAN 146 AULD LANG SYNE 147 LOUIS, WHAT RECK I BY THEE 149 HAD I THE WYTE ? 149 COMIN thro' the rye 151 YOUNG JAMIE . 152 OUT OVER THE FORTH 153 WANTONNESS FOR EVERMAIR 154 CHARLIE he's MY DARLING 154 CONTENTS FAGB THE LASS O ECCLEFECHAN 156 THE COOPER o' CUDDY . 157 FOR THE SAKE o' SOMEBODY 158 THE CARDIN o't 159 THERE 'S THREE TRUE GUID FELLOWS 160 SAE FLAXEN WERE HER RINGLETS 160 THE LASS THAT MADE THE BED . 162 SAE FAR AWA . 165 THE REEL o' STUMPIE . 166 I 'lL ay Ca' in by YON TOWN . 166 O, WAT YE WHA 's IN YON TOWN 167 WHEREFORE SIGHING ART THOU, PHYLLIS 169 O MAY, THY MORN 170 AS I CAME o'er THE CAIRNEY MOUNT 171 HIGHLAND LADDIE 172 WILT THOU BE MY DEARIE 173 LOVELY POLLY STEWART 174 THE HIGHLAND BALOU . 175 BANNOCKS o' BEAR MEAL 175 WAE IS MY HEART 176 HERE 'S HIS HEALTH IN WATER 177 THE WINTER OF LIFE . 178 THE TAILOR 179 THERE GROWS A BONIE BRIER-BUSH 180 HERE 'S TO THY HEALTH 181 IT WAS a' FOR OUR RIGHTFu' KING 182 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW's LAMENT 184 THOU GLOOMY DECEMBER 185 MY Peggy's face, my peggy's form 186 CONTENTS PAGE O, STEER HER UP, AN HAUD HER GAUN 187 WEE WILLIE GRAY 188 WE 're a' NODDIN 189 O, AY MY WIFE SHE DANG ME 191 SCROGGAM 192 O, GUID ALE COMES 193 ROBIN SHURE IN HAIRST 194 DOES HAUGHTY GAUL INVASION THREAT 195 O, ONCE I LOV'd a BONIE LASS 197 MY LORD A-HUNTING . 198 SWEETEST MAY 200 MEG o' THE MILL 200 JOCKIE 's TA'eN THE PARTING KISS 201 O, LAY THY LOOP IN MINE, LASS 202 CAULD IS THE e'eNIN BLAST 203 THERE WAS A BONIE LASS 204 THERE 'S NEWS, LASSES, NEWS . 205 Oj THAT I HAD Ne'eR BEEN MARRIED 206 MALLY 's MEEK, MALLY 's SWEET 207 WANDERING WILLIE 208 BRAW LADS o' GALLA WATER 209 AULD ROB MORRIS 210 OPEN THE DOOR TO ME, O • 211 WHEN WILD war's DEADLY BLAST 212 DUNCAN GRAY (sECOND SET) 215 DELUDED SWAIN, THE PLEASURE 217 HERE IS THE GLEN 218 LET NOT WOMEN e'eR COMPLAIN 219 LORD GREGORY 220 xu CONTENTS PAGE O POORTITH CAULD 221 O, STAY, SWEET WARBLING WOOD-LARK 223 SAW YE BONIE LESLEY 224 SWEET fa's the EVE 225 YOUNG JESSIE . 226 ADOWN WINDING NITH 227 A LASS Wl' A TOCHER 229 BLYTHE HAE I BEEN ON YON HILL 230 BY ALLAN STREAM 231 CANST THOU LEAVE ME 232 COME, LET ME TAKE THEE 233 CONTENTED Wl' LITTLE 234 FAREWELL, THOU STREAM 235 HAD I A CAVE . 236 here's A HEALTH 237 HOW CRUEL ARE THE PARENTS . 238 HUSBASD, husband, cease YOUR STRIFE 239 IT WAS THE CHARMING MONTH . 240 LAST MAY A BRAW WOOER 242 MY NANIE 'S AWA 244 NOW ROSY MAY 245 NOW SPRING HAS CLAD . 246 O, THIS IS NO MY AIN LASSIE 248 O, WAT YE WHA THAT Lo'eS ME 249 SCOTS, WHA HAE 251 THEIR GROVES o' SWEET MYRTLE 252 TIJINE AM I . 253 THOU HAST LEFT ME EVER, JAMIE 254 HIGHLAND MARY 255 CONTENTS PAGE MY CHLORIS, MARK 256 FAIREST MAID ON DEVON BANKS 258 LASSIE Wl' THE LINT-WHITE LOCKS 259 LONG, LONG THE NIGHT 260 LOGAN WATER 262 YON ROSY BRIER 263 WHERE ARE THE JOYS . 264 BEHOLD THE HOUR 265 FORLORN MY LOVE 266 Ca' the YOWES TO THE KNOWES (SECOND set) 268 HOW CAN MY POOR HEART 269 IS THERE FOR HONEST POVERTY 271 MARK YONDER POMP 273 O, LET ME IN THIS AE NIGHT 274 O PHILLY, HAPPY BE THAT DAY 277 O, WERE MY LOVE 279 SLEEP'ST THOU 280 THERE WAS A LASS 281 THE LEA-RIG . 284 MY WIFE 's A WINSOME WEE THING 285 MARY MORISON 286 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL 291 NOTES :— YOUNG PEGGY .... 299 BONIE DUNDEE .... 301 TO THE weaver's GIN YE GO . 303 WHISTLE an' I 'LL COME TO YOU> MY LAD . 304 xiv CONTENTS NOTES :—Continued. PAGE I 'm o'er young to marry yet . 305 the birks of aberfeldie . 306 Mcpherson's farewell . 307 my highland lassie, o . 308 tho' cruel fate . .312 stay my charmer . .312 STRATHAllan's LAMENT . .312 MY HOGGIE .... 313 JUMPIN JOHN . .315 DP IN THE MORNING EARLY . 315 THE YOUNG HIGHLAND ROVER .