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Poetry Index Progs 4-6
Texts of Featured Poems
Weaving Words
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Fort Hill
The sweet rose of June scents your shade,
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Fragment of an Epistle to Mr WH D----
'Tis no malice o' the hale,
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To the Potatoe
I ledge we'd fen gif fairly quat o'
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To a Sparrow
Wee, wanton, little thought o' birdie!
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Epistle to S Thomson of Carngranny
Dear Thomson! Fav’rite o’ the nine!
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The Irishman
The savage loves his native shore,
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The Irish Cottier’s Death and Burial
Erin! my country! preciously adorn'd
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Preface to Poetical Attempts
Reader, since ye hae gie'n your five an' fi'ppence,
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Written the Next Morning
Whar is the man, that could compute
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Answer to Burns’ ‘Lovely Jean’
My Burns is gane, I’m left alane,
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Epistle to Mr Richard Ramsay
Wi’ heck weel-teeth’d and spit renew’d,
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Address to Bachelors
Ye bachelors baith ane and a’,
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The Wish
The great of pedigree may vaunt,
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Elegy on a Loquacious Old Woman
Nae mair I tune my rustic reed,
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Address to Lettergull
O Lettergull, weel may you fare,
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The Vanity of Human Wishes
Vain, alas! are earthly treasures,
