Works
BBC Radio Scotland's Esme Kennedy and Dave Batchelor recorded performances by some of Scotland's best-loved actors (as well as two others) 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
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