Oh Jenny's a' weet poor body
  Jenny's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
  Comin thro' the rye.
        (Comin thro' the Rye, 2-2)

1. Address to the Devil
2. Ae Fond Kiss
3. Afton Water
4. Ca' the Yowes to the Knowes
5. Comin thro' the Rye
6. The Cotter's Saturday Night
7. Duncan Gray
8. Epistle to J. Lapraik (excerpt)
9. For a' That and a' That
10. From Lines to William Simson
11. Highland Mary
12. The Holy Fair
13. It was a' for our Rightful King
14. Last May a Braw Wooer
15. Mary Morison
16. A Red, Red Rose
17. Scots Wha Hae
18. Tam Glen
19. Tam O 'Shanter
20. To a Mountain Daisy
21. To a Mouse
22. A Winter Night
23. Ye Flowery Banks (Bonie Doon)

Notes on Life and Works

• Crawford, Robert. “Burns, Robert (1759-1796).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.

Biographical information

Given name: Robert
Family name: Burns
Birth date: 25 January 1759
Death date: 21 July 1796
Nationality: Scottish
Family relations
          father: William Burnes
          mother: Agnes Burnes
          wife: Jean Burns (from 3 August 1788)
          son: James Glencairn Burns
          son: Maxwell Burns
          son: Robert Burns
          son: William Nicol
          son: Francis Wallace
          daughter: Elizabeth Burns
          daughter: Elizabeth Paton
Education
          Alloway Mill school: 1765
          John Murdoch's school
          Parish school, Dalrymple: 1772
          Studied surveying under Hugh Rodger: 1777
Religion: New Light Party
Politics: Republican
Honour: Honorary burgess of Dumfries
Literary period: Romantic
Occupation: Exciseman: 1789
Residences
          Alloway: 1759
          Mount Oliphant: 1766
          Lochlea, Tarbolton: 1777
          Mossgiel: 1784
          Edinburgh: 1787
          Ellisland: 1789
          Dumfries: 1791
Cause of death: Rheumatic fever
Buried at: St Michael's churchyard, Dumfries
First RPO edition: 1997