Author:Allan Ramsay

Allan Ramsay
(1686–1758)

Portrait of Allan Ramsay by William Aikman

Works

Publications

• Chrysts-Kirke on the Greene (1716)
• Scots Songs (1719)
• Poems (1720) (external scan)
• Fables and Tales (1722)
• Tale of Three Bonnets (1722)
• The Fair Assembly (1723)
• Health (1724)
• Tea-Table Miscellany (1724-27), in 3 vols.
• The Ever Green: Being a Collection of Scots Poems, Wrote by the Ingenious before 1600 (1724–7), in 2 vols.
• The Gentle Shepherd (1725)

Individual poems and songs

• "Auld Lang Syne"
• "Bonnie Chirsty"
• "The Monk and the Miller's Wife"
• "The Soger Laddie"
• "Somebody"
• "There's my thumb" (Betty, early gone a Maying)
• "There's my thumb" (My sweetest May, let love incline thee)

Works about Ramsay

• "Ramsay, Allan," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Ramsay, Allan (1686-1758)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• Allan Ramsay (1896), by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton (external scan)
• "Ramsay, Allan," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Ramsay, Allan (poet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)