Contents ( 73)
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- FOLK-TALES FOR AN ENLIGHTENED AGE
- DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK A True Story
- TO A MOUSE
- THE TWA DOGS A Tale
- HALLOWEEN
- ADDRESS TO THE DEIL
- TO A LOUSE
- ADDRESS OF BEELZEBUB
- TAM O’ SHANTER A Tale
- RELIGIOUS SENTIMENT AND SATIRE
- A PRAYER, IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH
- HOLY WILLIE’S PRAYER
- THE HOLY FAIR
- THE COTTER’S SATURDAY NIGHT Inscribed to R. Aiken, Esq.
- PRAYER – O THOU DREAD POWER
- EPIGRAM TO MISS AINSLIE IN CHURCH
- LOVE AND SEX
- THE RIGS O BARLEY Tune: Corn rigs are bonie
- MARY MORISON Tune: Duncan Davison
- GREEN GROW THE RASHES, O
- A POET’S WELCOME TO HIS LOVE-BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER
- THE FORNICATOR Tune: Clout the Cauldron
- THE JOLLY BEGGARS – A CANTATA
- THE LASS O BALLOCHMYLE Tune: Ettrick Banks
- LIBEL SUMMONS
- CA’ THE YOWES TO THE KNOWES
- AULD LANG SYNE
- YESTREEN I HAD A PINT O WINE Tune: Banks of Banna
- AE FOND KISS Tune: Rory Dall’s Port
- HIGHLAND MARY Tune: Katherine Ogie
- A RED RED ROSE
- O, WERT THOU IN THE CAULD BLAST Tune: Lenox love to Blantyre
- COMIN THRO THE RYE Tune: Miller’s Wedding
- WHA’LL MOW ME NOW? Tune: Comin thro the rye
- O SAW YE MY MAGGIE
- CONTEMPORARY POLITICS
- BALLAD ON THE AMERICAN WAR Tune: Killiecrankie
- A DREAM
- THE FÊTE CHAMPETRE Tune: Killiecrankie
- ODE ON THE DEPARTED REGENCY BILL
- THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN Spoken by Miss Fontenelle on her benefit night
- WHY SHOULDNA POOR FOLK MOWE Tune: The Campbells are comin
- SCOTS WHA HAE Tune: Hey Tutti Tatie
- ODE FOR GENERAL WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY
- A MAN’S A MAN FOR A’ THAT
- DOES HAUGHTY GAUL INVASION THREAT? Tune: Push about the Jorum
- SCOTTISH CULTURAL HISTORY
- SCOTCH DRINK
- ADDRESS TO A HAGGIS
- LINES ON FERGUSSON, THE POET
- THE BONIE MOOR-HEN Tune: Beware of the Hunting
- JOHNIE COPE
- MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS Tune: Failte na miosg
- AWA, WHIGS, AWA
- THE WHITE COCKADE
- LAMENT OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS ON THE APPROACH OF SPRING
- THERE’LL NEVER BE PEACE TILL JAMIE COMES HAME
- YE JACOBITES BY NAME
- SUCH A PARCEL OF ROGUES IN A NATION
- OCCASIONAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL VERSE
- I’LL GO AND BE A SODGER
- MY FATHER WAS A FARMER Tune: The Weaver and his Shuttle, O
- THE DEATH AND DYING WORDS OF POOR MAILIE, THE AUTHOR’S ONLY PET YOWE
- EPITAPH ON MY HONOURED FATHER
- EPISTLE TO DAVIE, A BROTHER POET
- EPISTLE TO J. LAPRAIK
- THE AULD FARMER’S NEW-YEAR MORNING SALUTATION TO HIS AULD MARE, MAGGIE
- LINES WRITTEN ON A BANK-NOTE
- THE FAREWELL
- REPLY TO A TRIMMING EPISTLE RECEIVED FROM A TAYLOR
- SELECT SCOTS GLOSSARY
sheugh ditch
sic such
skaith harm
skelpin thrashing
skiegh fiery
skinking watery
sklented squinted
skouth liberty
skyrin flaunting
slae sloe (berry)
slaps fence-gap
sleek glossy
smeddum insecticide powder
sned prune
snell bitter
sonsie comely
souse strike
souter cobbler
sowth whistle
spavet spavined
speel’d climbed
speir ask
spleuchan tobacco-pouch
splore frolic
sprittie rushey
spunk mettlesome
stacher stagger
stank pool
staw steal
steek shut up
steeve firm
steyert steep
stilt plough-handle
stimpart measure of grain
stirks bullocks
stook corn-sheaves in rows of two
stoure dust
straught straight
stroant pissed
studdie anvil
sturt fret
swank agile
swarf swoon
swats small-beer
swith quickly
syne since
taets tufts
tapsalteerie topsy-turvy
targe shield
tawie biddable horse
tent care
teugh tough
thae those
thairms intestine
thirl’d thrilled/tied to
thole put up with
timmer timber
tinkler gypsy
tint lose
tippeny tuppeny (ale)
tocher dowry
tod fox
toom empty
toop-lamb male sheep
touzie rough
towmond a year
toyte walk like an old person
trow believe
trowth truly
unco very
usquabae whisky
vauntie vane
waesucks alas
wale choice
wame belly
wanrestfu restless
warsle struggle
wattle wand
waur worse
wawlie handsome
westlin western
whaizle to wheese
whang thick slice
wheep jig
whin-rock granite
whissle silver coin
whitter measure of alcohol
whyles sometimes
wimple meander
winnock-bunker window-seat
wooer-babs knee-garter
yerkit lashed
yestreen last night
yetts gates
yill ale
yill-caup tankard
yoking contesting
yon yonder
younkers youngsters
yowe ewe