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Burns : poems / edited and introduced by Gerard Carruthers
- Author
- Burns, Robert, 1759-1796
- Uniform Title
- Poems. Selections
- Published
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2007.
- Physical Description
- 255 pages ; 17 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Carruthers, Gerard
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Death and Doctor Hornbook -- To a mouse -- The twa dogs -- Halloween -- Address to the deil -- To a louse -- Address of Beelzebub -- Tam o' shanter -- A prayer, in the prospect of death -- Holy Willie's prayer -- The holy fair -- The cotter's Saturday night -- Prayer - O thou dread power -- Epigram to Miss Ainslie in church -- Ballad on the American war -- A dream -- The Fete Champetre -- Ode on the departed regency bill -- The rights of woman -- Why shouldna poor folk mowe -- Scots Wha Hae -- Ode for General Washington's birthday -- A man's a man for a' that -- Does haughty Gaul invasion threat? -- The rigs o barley -- Mary Morison -- Green grow the rashes, O -- A poet's welcome to his love-begotten daughter -- The fornicator -- The jolly beggars - a cantata -- The lass o Ballochmyle -- Libel summons -- Ca' the yowes to the knowes -- Auld lang syne -- Yestreen I had a pint o wine -- Ae fond kiss -- Highland Mary -- A red red rose -- O, wert thou in the cauld blast -- Comin thro the rye -- Wha'll mow me now? -- O saw ye my Maggie -- Scotch drink -- Address to a haggis -- Lines on Fergusson, the poet -- The bonie moor-hen -- Johnie Cope -- My heart's in the highlands -- Awa, whigs, awa -- The white cockade -- Scots prologue for Mrs. Sutherland's benefit night, spoken at the theatre dumfries -- Lament of Mary Queen of Scots on the approach of spring -- There'll never be peace till Jamie comes hame -- Ye Jacobites by name -- Such a parcel of rogues in a nation -- I'll go and be a sodger -- My father was a farmer -- The death and dying words of poor Mailie, the author's only pet yowe -- Epitaph on my honoured father -- Epistle to Davie, a brother poet -- Epistle to J. Lapraik -- The auld farmer's new-year morning salutation to his auld mare, Maggie -- Lines written on a bank-note -- The farewell.
- Summary
- A collection of poems and songs by eighteenth-century Scottish writer Robert Burns.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780307266163 (US)
0307266168 (US)
9781841597768 (UK)
1841597767 (UK)
0307266168 (alk. paper)
9780307266168 - Note
- Includes index.
- Source of Acquisition
- Schuylkill copy: Purchased with funds from the Paterno Libraries Endowment; 2010.
- Endowment Note
- Paterno Libraries Endowment (Campus College Libraries)
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