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To John Taylor

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To ———

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There's Naethin' like the Honest Nappy

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Fragment

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Epigram on a Noted Coxcomb

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'In Vain Would Prudence'

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'Though Fickle Fortune'

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The Loyal Natives' Verses

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Burns — Extempore

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'I Burn, I Burn'

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Tam the Chapman

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To Dr. Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's Recovery

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Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods, on his benefit night

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Nature's Law. A Poem humbly inscribed to G. H. Esq.

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The Cats Like Kitchen

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Poverty

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Tragic Fragment

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Extempore. Pinned to a Lady's Coach

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Lines on being asked why God had made Miss Davies so little and Mrs. — so large

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Fragments

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Verses written on a Window of the Inn at Carron

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Epigram. Written at Inverary

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Verses addressed to J. Rankine

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Lines said to have been written by Burns, while on his Death-bed, to John Rankine

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Lines written Extempore in a Lady's Pocket Book

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The Henpeck'd Husband

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Extempore Lines, in answer to a Card from an Intimate Friend of Burns

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Answer to a Poetical Epistle sent the Author by a Tailor

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A Toast. Given at a meeting of the Dumfriesshire Volunteers

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On seeing the beautiful seat of Lord Galloway

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On the Same

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On the Same

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To the Same, on the Author being threatened with his Resentment

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Epitaph on a Henpeck'd Country Squire

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Epigram on said occasion

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Another

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On hearing that there was Falsehood in the Rev. Dr. B———'s very Looks

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Extemporaneous Effusion, on being appointed to the Excise

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Lines written on a Window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries

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On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire

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Lines written and presented to Mrs. Kemble

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Epitaph on William Nicol

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Verses to J. Rankine

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Extempore in the Court of Session

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Epitaph on John Dove

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Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline

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Lines written on the Window of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries

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Epigram on Captain Francis Grose

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Lines written under the picture of the celebrated Miss Burns

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On Miss J. Scott of Ayr

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Epitaph on John Bushby

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Epigram on Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams

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Epitaph on a Country Laird

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Epitaph on a Noisy Polemic

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Epitaph on Wee Johnny

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Epitaph on a celebrated Ruling Elder

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Epitaph for Robert Aiken, Esq.

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Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq.

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Epitaph on my Father

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Epitaph on a Person nicknamed "The Marquis"

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On Himself

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Epitaph on Walter S———

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Grace before Meat

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On Commissary Goldie's Brains

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Impromptu

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Impromptu

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Epigram

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A Bard's Epitaph

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Addressed to a Lady whom the Author feared he had offended

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Lines inscribed on a platter

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To a Painter

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On Mr. M'Murdo

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To ———

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To a Lady who was looking up the Text during Sermon

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To ———

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Lines written on a Tumbler

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On Mr. W. Cruikshank, of the High School, Edinburgh

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SONGS.

The Lass o' Ballochmyle

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Naebody

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Song of Death

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Auld Rob Morris

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My ain kind Dearie O

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My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing

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Duncan Gray

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O Poortith

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Lord Gregory

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Galla Water

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There was a Lass

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Logan Braes

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Phillis the Fair

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Open the Door to me, Oh!

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