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Robert Burns's Poetry, by first line

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  • Address To The Tooth-Ache
    My curse upon your venom'd stang,
    That shoots my tortur'd gums alang;
    36 lines, 1 comment
  • Again Rejoicing Nature Sees
    Again rejoicing nature sees
    Her robe assume its vernal hues,
    38 lines
  • Craigieburn Wood
    Sweet fa's the eve on Craigieburn,
    And blythe awakens the morrow,
    16 lines
  • Despondency -- An Ode
    Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care,
    A burden more than I can bear,
    70 lines
  • Handsome Nell
    O, once I lov'd a bonnie lass,
    Aye, and I love her still;
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • Here's A Health To Them That's Awa
    Here's a health to them that's awa,
    Here's a health to them that's awa
    40 lines
  • Highland Mary
    Ye banks, and braes, and streams around
    The castle o' Montgomery,
    32 lines
  • Holy Willie's Prayer
    "And send the godly in a pet to pray." - Pope
    O Thou, that in the heavens does dwell,
    97 lines
  • John Barleycorn: A Ballad
    There was three kings unto the east,
    Three kings both great and high,
    60 lines, 2 comments
  • Mary Morison
    O Mary, at thy window be!
    It is the wish'd the trysted hour.
    24 lines
  • My Highland Lassie, O
    Nae gentle dames, tho' e'er sae fair,
    Shall ever be my muse's care;
    36 lines
  • My Nannie, O
    Behind yon hills, where Lugar flows,
    'Mang moors an' mosses many, O,
    32 lines
  • Now Spring Has Clad The Grove In Green
    Now spring has clad the grove in green,
    And strew'd the lea wi' flowers;
    40 lines
  • O Thou Dread Power
    O Thou dread Power, who reign'st above,
    I know thou wilt me hear,
    24 lines
  • O, Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair
    O, were my love yon lilac fair
    Wi' purple blossoms to the spring,
    16 lines
  • On A Bank Of Flowers
    On a bank of flowers in a summer day
    For summer lightly drest,
    32 lines
  • Peggy
    Now westlin winds and slaught'ring guns
    Bring autumn's pleasant weather;
    57 lines
  • Poor Mailie's Elegy
    Lament in rhyme, lament in prose,
    Wi' saut tears tricklin down your nose;
    48 lines
  • Scotch Drink
    Let other poets raise a fracas
    Bout vines, and wines, an drucken Bacchus,
    126 lines
  • Tam O' Shanter
    When chapman billies leave the street,
    And drouthy neibors neibors meet;
    224 lines, 1 comment
  • The Battle Of Sherramuir
    "O cam ye here the fight to shun,
    Or herd the sheep wi' me, man?
    60 lines
  • The Bonie Wee Thing
    Wishfully I look and languish
    13 lines, 1 comment
  • The Cotter's Saturday Night
    Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.
    &n
    196 lines
  • The Lass Of Cessnock Banks
    On Cessnock banks a lassie dwells,
    Could I describe her shape and mien!
    56 lines
  • The Rigs O' Barley
    It was upon a Lammas night,
    When corn rigs are bonnie,
    39 lines
  • The Tear-drop
    Wae is my heart, and the tear's in my e'e;
    Lang lang Joy's been a stranger to me:
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wounded Hare
    Inhuman man! curse on thy barb'rous art,
    And blasted by thy murder-aiming eye;
    16 lines
  • Thou Lingering Star
    Thou lingering star, with less'ning ray,
    That lov'st to greet the early morn,
    32 lines
  • To A Kiss
    Humid seal of soft affections,
    Tend'rest pledge of future bliss,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • To A Louse
    On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church
    Ha! whare ye gaun' ye crowlin ferlie?
    49 lines, 2 comments
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