Synopses & Reviews
Treasury of 43 works including: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Tam o' Shanter," "Comin Thro' the Rye," "Im Oe'r Young to Marry Yet," "O, Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass," and "O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast." Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.
Synopsis
Treasury of 43 works: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Tam o' Shanter," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," many more. Lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.
Synopsis
Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries to the point where he is not only the Scottish national poet but the object of a cult unique in British poetry.
The present volume contains 43 of his finest poems and songs, reprinted unabridged from an authoritative tenth-century edition. Included are "The Twa Dogs," a deft satire of the Scottish upper classes; "To a Mouse," one of the poet's best known, most charming works; "Address to the Unco Guid," an attack on Puritan hypocrisy; "Holy Willie's Prayer," one of the great verse-satires of all times; as well as such favorites as "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "The Holy Fair," "Address to the Deil," "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie," and many more.
In addition to his poetic undertakings, Burns almost single-handedly preserved and revived the traditional Scottish song, and this volume includes a rich selection of these works: "A Red, Red Rose," "Auld Lang Syne," "Comin' thro' the Rye," "My Heart's in the Highlands," "My Love, She's But a Lassie Yet," and a host of others.
Synopsis
Treasury of 43 works: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Tam o' Shanter," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," many more. Lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.
Synopsis
Treasury of 43 works: "The Cotter's Saturday Night," "To a Mountain Daisy," "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Tam o' Shanter," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," many more. Lists of titles and first lines. Extensive glossary.
Table of Contents
From
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, 1786
The Two Dogs
Scotch Drink
The Holy Fair
Address to the Devil
The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie
The Cotter's Saturday Night
To a Mouse
To a Mountain Daisy
Epistle to a Young Friend
To a Louse
Song: "It Was Upon a Lammas Night"
From the Additions in the Edinburgh Edition of 1787
Address to the Unco Guid
Green Grow the Rashes, O
From the Additions in the Edinburgh Edition of 1793
Tam o'Shanter
On the Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations thro' Scotland
From the Posthumous Pieces
Holy Willie's Prayer
Songs from Johnson's Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803) and Thomson's Scottish Airs (1793-1818)
O, Whistle an' I'll Come to Ye, My Lad
I'm O'er Young to Marry Yet
The Birks of Aberfeldie
O'er the Water to Charlie
My Love, She's But a Lassie Yet
The Silver Tassie
Of A' the Airts
Whistle O'er the Lave o't
My Heart's in the Highlands
John Anderson My Jo
Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
Willie Brew'd a Peck o' Maut
Ae Fond Kiss
The Posie
The Banks o' Doon
Sweet Afton
The Deil's Awa wi' th' Exciseman
A Red, Red Rose
Auld Lang Syne
Comin thro' the Rye
Charlie He's My Darling
O, Lay Thy Loof in Mine, Lass
Open the Door to Me, O
Scots, Wha Hae
Highland May
Miscellaneous Songs
There Was a Lad
O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
Glossary
Alphabetical List of Titles
Alphabetical List of First Lines