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CONTENTS.
(An Asterisk is prefixed to those picces that, either wholly or in part, are
here first embraced in a popular edition of the author's works.)
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
The Brigs of Ayr
Song-The Night was Still: A Fragment.
Masonic Song-Ye Sons of Old Killie
Tam Samson's Elegy
Epistle to Major Logan
Fragment on Sensibility
A Winter Night-When Biting Boreas
Song-Yon Wild Mossy Mountains
Address to Edinburgh
Address to a Haggis
To Miss Logan, with Beattie's Poems
Mr William Smellie-A Sketch
Song-Rattlin, Roarin Willie
Song-Bonie Dundee: A Fragment
Extempore in the Court of Session
Inscription for the Headstone of Fergusson the Poet
Additional Stanzas of same Inscription
Lines Inscribed under Fergusson's Portrait
Epistle to Mrs Scott, of Wauchope House
Verses inscribed under a Noble Earl's Picture
Prologue, spoken by Mr Woods at Edinburgh
Song-The Bonie Moor-hen
Song-My Lord a-Hunting he is gane
Minor Pieces, Scraps, and Epigrams, 1787,
40
43
44
45
47
48
Burlesque Lament for Wm. Creech's Absence
Note to Mr Renton of Lamerton
On Elphinstone's Translation of Martial's Epigrams
Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns
Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh
Epitaph for Mr William Michie, Schoolmaster
Boat Song-Hey Ca' Thro'.
Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq. of Woodhouselee
Epigram to Miss Ainslie in Church.
50
51
52
53
54
Elegy on Stella
58
The Bard at Inverary-An Inscription
Epigram to Miss Jean Scott
61
On the Death of John M'Leod, Esq.
Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
63
To Miss Ferrier, enclosing Elegy on Sir J. H. Blair
65
Impromptu on Carron Iron Works .
66
Written by Somebody on the Window of an Inn at Stirling 66
Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic.
67
The Libeller's Self-reproof.
68
Verses Written with a Pencil at the Inn at Kenmore
Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands
Song-Strathallan's Lament