Works
BBC Radio Scotland's Esme Kennedy and Dave Batchelor recorded performances by some of Scotland's best-loved actors (as well as twoothers) of Robert Burns's works. A team from the University of Glasgow provided the many guides featured throughout this website. Recordings from 716 works are available, many of which have now been associated with days of the year.
January
- 01To Miss Logan
- 02The Auld Farmer's New-Year-Morning Salutation To His Auld Mare, Maggie
- 03Up In The Morning Early
- 04Charlie, He's My Darling
- 05Raving winds around her blowing
- 06John Barleycorn: A Ballad
- 07My Nanie, O
- 08A Winter Night
- 09Musing On The Roaring Ocean
- 10Winter A Dirge
- 11A Prayer, Under the Pressure of violent Anguish
- 12The Bonie Lass Made The Bed To Me
- 13Address To The Toothache
- 14John Anderson My Jo
- 15The auld man's winter thought
- 16Sonnet On Hearing A Thrush Sing
- 17The lea-rig
- 18Tam o' Shanter
- 19Holy Willie's Prayer
- 20My Father was a Farmer
- 21I Love My Jean
- 22Green Grow The Rashes
- 23Scotch Drink
- 24Address to a Haggis
- 25Rantin' Rovin' Robin
- 26To William Stewart
- 27Epistle To Davie, A Brother Poet
- 28The Braes o' Ballochmyle
- 29At Brownhill Inn
- 30Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn
- 31O'er the Water to Charlie
February
- 01Composed in Spring
- 02Lines Written on a window at the King's Arms Tavern, Dumfries
- 03There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame
- 04The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer
- 05Sweet Afton
- 06The Rights of Woman
- 07Song [Tho' women's minds, like winter winds]
- 08Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring
- 09Epigram On Rough Roads
- 10Fragment
- 11O Raging Fortune's Withering Blast
- 12Epitaph On Holy Willie
- 13Epitaph for the Author's Father
- 14The Banks of the Devon
- 15I Love My Love In Secret
- 16O That I Had Ne'er Been Married
- 17Address to the Deil
- 18To Robert Graham of Fintry Esq
- 19Address to Edinburgh
- 20Extempore reply to an invitation
- 21A Verse composed and repeated by Burns
- 22The Inventory
- 23Ode [For General Washington's Birthday]
- 24Clarinda (Mistress of my soul)
- 25The Belles of Mauchline
- 26O can ye labour lea
- 27The Guidwife of Wauchope-House, to Robert Burns, the Airshire Bard
- 28The Answer, to the Guidwife of Wauchope-House
- 29Jamie Come Try Me
March
- 01Awa Whigs Awa
- 02The Rantin Dog, The Daddie O't
- 03To Mr John Kennedy
- 04To a painter
- 05To John Kennedy
- 06Hey for a Lass wi' a Tocher
- 07Sandy and Jockie
- 08The Farewell
- 09Hey Ca' thro
- 10Highland Lassie O
- 11The Banks O' Doon (First Version)
- 12The Banks O' Doon (Second Version)
- 13The Banks O' Doon (Third Version)
- 14A sonnet upon sonnets
- 15Epistle to James Smith
- 16Fragment - Epistle from Esopus to Maria
- 17It Was A' For Our Rightfu' King
- 18The First Psalm
- 19On Fergusson A
- 20Mary Morison
- 21Duncan Davison
- 22Address to the Woodlark
- 23The Heron Ballads : John Bushby's Lamentation
- 24The Whistle
- 25The Heron Ballads : Buy Braw Troggin
- 26O Leave Novels
- 27The Heron Ballads : The Election : A New Song
- 28The Heron Ballads : Wham will we send to London town
- 29Epitaph on a Wag in Mauchline
- 30On Miss PK
- 31The Gowden Locks of Anna
April
- 01Epistle To J. Lapraik
- 02My Nanie's Awa
- 03The Vision
- 04Farewell to Eliza
- 05Elegy On The Death of Sir James Hunter Blair
- 06Green Sleeves
- 07The Bonie Wee Thing
- 08The Ninetieth Psalm
- 09Epitaph For William Nicol
- 10Epitaph on my own friend, and my father's friend, William Muir in Tarbolton
- 11The Night was still
- 12A Toast. Lines on the Commemoration of Rodney's Victory
- 13Though fickle fortune has deceived me
- 14Lines To An Old Sweetheart
- 15Highland Laddie
- 16The Lovely Lass o' Inverness
- 17Prologue spoken by Mr Woods
- 18The Highland Widow's Lament
- 19On the Duchess of Gordon's Reel Dancing
- 20To A Mountain Daisy
- 21Second Epistle To J. Lapraik
- 22Sonnet, on the death of Robert Riddel, Esq. of Glen Riddel, April 1974
- 23English Song
- 24Tibbie Dunbar
- 25Lassie lie near me
- 26Craigieburn wood
- 27My love she's but a lassie yet
- 28On Robert Riddel
- 29The Ronalds of the Bennals
- 30Stay, my Charmer, can you leave me
May
- 01Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation
- 02Epistle to Mr Tytler of Woodhouselee, Author of a Defence of Mary Queen of Scots
- 03To Mr Gavin Hamilton. Mauchline
- 04Address To The Unco Guid
- 05To Miss Cruickshank, a very young Lady
- 06Elegy on Mr William Cruikshank A.M.
- 07A dedication to Gavin Hamilton Esq
- 08Dainty Davie
- 09The Gardener wi' his paidle
- 10The Lass of Cessnock Banks
- 11Song composed at Auchtertyre on Miss Euphemia Murray of Lentrose
- 12The Primrose
- 13Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher
- 14To Mary in Heaven
- 15Epistle To A Young Friend
- 16To W. Simpson, Ochiltree
- 17Sweetest May
- 18Auld Rob Morris
- 19The Kirk of Scotland's Garland
- 20Scotish Song
- 21The Winter It Is Past
- 22A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter
- 23The Braw Wooer
- 24There was a bonie lass
- 25Logan Braes
- 26The Charming Month Of May
- 27As I went out ae May morning
- 28Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary
- 29Revision for Clarinda
- 30O were my Love yon Lilack fair
- 31You're welcome, Willie Stewart
June
- 01Address Of Beelzebub
- 02As I cam down by yon castle wa'
- 03The Gallant Weaver
- 04Libel Summons
- 05A Dream
- 06On Mr Pit's hair-powder tax
- 07The Ordination
- 08To the Weaver's gin ye go
- 09The Twa Dogs
- 10Lines on Stirling
- 11The White Cockade
- 12Bessy and her Spinning Wheel
- 13My Heart's In The Highlands
- 14Written In Friars' Carse Hermitage
- 15Sutors o' Selkirk
- 16Here awa', there awa'
- 17Sensibility how charming
- 18Lassie wi' the lintwhite locks
- 19On A Bank Of Flowers
- 20I do confess thou art sae fair
- 21As I was a wand'ring
- 22Epistle to Hugh Parker
- 23My Luve is like a Red Red Rose
- 24Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
- 25A Fiddler In The North
- 26To a Young Lady, Miss Jessy Lewars
- 27Hey tuti tatey
- 28Here's a health to ane I lo'e dear
- 29On Jessy Lewars
- 30Braw Lads O Galla Water
July
- 01A Man's a Man for A' That
- 02O An Ye Were Dead Gudeman
- 03Ay Waukin O
- 04A Fragment [Ballad on the American War]
- 05The Farewell. To the Brethren of St James's Lodge, Tarbolton
- 06On The Late Captain Grose's Peregrinations Thro' Scotland
- 07Epigram on Captain Francis Grose, The Celebrated Antiquary
- 08Rattlin' Roarin' Willie
- 09The Mauchline Wedding
- 10Adown winding Nith I did wander
- 11Philly And Willy
- 12O, for ane and twenty Tam
- 13The Twa Herds
- 14The Tree of Liberty
- 15An Extemporaneous Effusion on being appointed to the Excise
- 16Fair Eliza
- 17Lines Written on a Banknote
- 18To Dr Maxwell, on Miss Jessy Staig's recovery
- 19A Prayer in the Prospect of Death
- 20Stanzas On the Same Occasion
- 21Handsome Nell
- 22Orananaoig, or The Song of Death
- 23The Solemn League and Covenant
- 24Frae the friends and Land I love
- 25Elegy On The Death Of Robert Ruisseaux
- 26On the death of John M'Leod, Esq.
- 27Killiecrankie
- 28To Alexander Cunningham
- 29Scots Ballad
- 30I Reign In Jeanie's Bosom
- 31A Bard's Epitaph
August
- 01Divine Service In The Kirk Of Lamington
- 02Epigrams on Lord Galloway
- 03Galloway Tam
- 04Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns
- 05Robert Burns' Answer [to 'Epistle from a Taylor to Robert Burns']
- 06Pinned to Mrs Riddell's carriage
- 07Dumfries Epigrams
- 08The Rosebud
- 09On James. Grieve, Laird of Boghead, Tarbolton
- 10On a Schoolmaster in Cleish Parish, Fifeshire
- 11Gudeen to you kimmer
- 12Elegy on Captain MH, A gentleman who held the patent for his honours immediately from almighty god
- 13Epistle To John Goldie, In Kilmarnock
- 14Tam Samson's Elegy
- 15To Miss Isabella MacLeod
- 16The Bonie Moor-Hen
- 17The German Lairdie
- 18Composed In August
- 19Carl an the king come
- 20Ye Jacobites By Name
- 21Blythe hae I been on yon hill
- 22O Saw ye bonie Lesley
- 23Gude Wallace
- 24My bony Mary
- 25Verses written on a window of the Inn at Carron
- 26Verses written with a Pencil over the Chimney-piece, In the Parlour of the Inn at Kenmore, Taymouth
- 27Strathallan's Lament
- 28The Birks of Aberfeldy
- 29Corn Rigs
- 30The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water
- 31Lines on the Fall of Fyers, near Loch Ness
September
- 01To Mr Graham of Fintry, On being appointed to my Excise Division
- 02Theniel Menzies bonie Mary
- 03Nature's Law
- 04Epistle to Robert Graham Esq: of Fintry on the Election of the Dumfries string of Boroughs, Anno 1790
- 05The Holy Fair
- 06Lady Onlie, Honest Lucky
- 07Castle Gordon
- 08To Robert Graham Esq of Fintry Esq with a Request for an Excise Division
- 09The Keekin Glass
- 10Robin shure in hairst
- 11Address, to the shade of Thomson, on crowning his bust, at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with bays
- 12Where Helen Lies
- 13Third Epistle To J. Lapraik
- 14On Seeing A Wounded Hare
- 15Sae Far Awa
- 16My wife's a winsome wee thing
- 17Epistle To The Rev. John M'math
- 18My Collier laddie
- 19As I cam o'er the Cairney Mount
- 20Inscription on a Goblet
- 21Johnie Cope
- 22Scots Prologue, for Mrs Sutherland's Benefit Night
- 23Johnie Blunt
- 24Lord Ronald My Son
- 25Hughie Graham
- 26Ca' The Yowes To The Knowes
- 27On a Scotch Bard Gone to the West Indies
- 28Saw Ye My Phely
- 29To Mr E - on his translation of and commentaries on Martial
- 30O gude ale comes and gude ale goes
October
- 01Ode, sacred to the memory of Mrs Oswald of Auchencruive
- 02Annotations in Verse
- 03Extempore, in the Court of Session
- 04On Scaring Some Water Fowl In Loch Turit
- 05O, were I on Parnassus Hill
- 06Whistle O'er The Lave O't
- 07Sic a wife as Willie's Wife
- 08My Peggy's Face
- 09The Brigs of Ayr
- 10The Five Carlins
- 11The laddies by the banks o' Nith
- 12Willie Brew'd A Peck O' Maut
- 13O poortith cauld and restless love
- 14Beware o' Bonie Ann
- 15Verses addressed to J Ranken
- 16Lines Addressed to Mr John Ranken
- 17Lines, wrote by Burns, while on his deathbed
- 18Epistle to John Ranken
- 19Country Lassie
- 20She says she lo'es me best of a'
- 21Epistle to Dr Blacklock
- 22The Blue-Eyed Lassie
- 23The Shepherd's Wife
- 24A new Psalm for the chapel of Kilmarnock
- 25Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer
- 26The Sons of Old Killie
- 27Here's a bottle and an honest friend
- 28Death and Doctor Hornbook
- 29Tam Glen
- 30Epistle to Captain William Logan at Park
- 31Halloween
November
- 01I'm o'er young to Marry Yet
- 02To a Mouse
- 03Man Was Made To Mourn
- 04Impromptu On Mrs Riddell's Birthday, 4th November 1793
- 05What will I do gin my Hoggie die
- 06Lady Mary Ann
- 07The Seventh of November
- 08To Miss Ainslie, in Church
- 09The Captain's Lady
- 10I'll mak you be fain to follow me
- 11Lines written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries
- 12The Minstrel at Lincluden
- 13The Battle Of Sherramuir
- 14When she cam ben she bobbed
- 15Lines To A Gentleman
- 16Pegasus at Wanlockhead
- 17Cauld Frosty Morning
- 18Contented wi little
- 19Extempore
- 20Extempore epistle to Mr McAdam of Craigengillan
- 21Elegy on Peg Nicholson
- 22On the Birth of a Posthumous Child, born in peculiar circumstances of Family-Distress
- 23The Lazy Mist
- 24The Calf
- 25When Wild War's Deadly Blast Was Blawn
- 26Up and warn a' Willie
- 27The Tarbolton Lasses
- 28The Cotter's Saturday Night
- 29English Song
- 30Caledonia
December
- 01Letter to James Tennant, Glenconner
- 02The Jolly Beggars : Love and Liberty - A Cantata
- 03To Clarinda
- 04Occasional Address, Spoken by Miss Fontenelle, on her benefit night
- 05The fete champetre
- 06Thou Gloomy December
- 07Where braving angry Winter's Storms
- 08O May thy morn
- 09The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie, The Author's Only Pet Yowe, An Unco Mournfu' Tale
- 10Poor Mailie's Elegy
- 11Let me in this ae night
- 12When Princes and Prelates
- 13To a Louse
- 14To the Hon Mr RM, of Panmure, on his high Phaeton
- 15O Whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad
- 16I hae a wife o my ain
- 17To John Syme [A]
- 18McPherson's Farewell
- 19To Mr McMurdo, with a pound of Lundiefoot Snuff
- 20A Penitential thought, in the hour of Remorse - Intended for a Tragedy
- 21Jockey's Taen The Parting Kiss
- 22On the seas and far away
- 23How lang and dreary is the night
- 24A Grace Before Dinner
- 25To Daunton Me
- 26Sylvander to Clarinda
- 27Ae Fond Kiss
- 28Cauld is the e'enin blast
- 29Fragment [Montgomery's Peggy]
- 30Poem addressed to Mr Mitchell, Collector of Excise, Dumfries
- 31Auld Lang Syne
