The complete poetical works of Sir Walter Scott

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Two ballads from the German of Bürger: William and Helen

The wild huntsman

Early ballads and lyrics: The violet =

To a lady with flowers from a Roman wall

The erl-king, from the German of Goethe

War-song of the royal Edinburgh light dragoons

Song from 'Goetz von Berlichingen'

Songs from 'the house of Aspen': I 'Joy to the victors, the sons of old Aspen'

II 'Sweet shone the sun on the fair lake of Toro'

III Rhein-wein lied

Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald's coronach

The eve of St John

The grey brother

The fire-king

Bothwell castle

The shepherd's tale

Cheviot

Fredrick and Alice

Cadyow castle

The reiver's wedding

Christie's will

Thomas the rhymer

The bard's incantation

Hellvellyn

The lay of the last minstrel: Canto first

Canto second

Canto third

Canto Fourth

Canto fifth

Canto sixth

Marmion: Atale of Flodden field: Canto first: The castle

Canto second: The convent

Canto third: The hostel, or inn

Canto Fourth: The camp

Canto fifth: The court

Canto sixth: The battle L'Envoy

The lady of the lake: Canto first: The chase

Canto second: The island

Canto third: The gathering

Canto Fourth: The prophecy

Canto fifth: The combat

Canto sixth: The guard-room

The vision of Don Roderick

Rokeby: Canto first

Canto second

Canto third

Canto Fourth

Canto fifth

Canto sixth

The bridal of triermain: Canto first

Canto second

Canto third

The Lord of the isles: Canto first

Canto second

Canto third

Canto Fourth

Canto fifth

Canto sixth

The field of Waterloo

Harold the dauntless: Canto first

Canto second

Canto third

Canto Fourth

Canto fifth

Canto sixth

Miscellaneous poems: The dying bard

The norman horse-shoe

The maid of Toro

The palmer

The maid of Neidpath

Wandering Willie

Health to Lord Melville

Hunting song

Song: 'O, say not, my love'

The resolve: Epitaph designed for a monument in Lichfield Cathedral, at the burial-place of the family of Miss Seward

Prologue to Miss Baillie's play of 'the family legend'

The poacher

The bold dragoon; or, the plain of badajos

On the massacre of Glencoe

Song for the anniversary meeting of the pitt club of Scotland

Lines addressed to Ranald Macdonald, esq., of staffa

Pharos loquitur

Letter in verse of the voyage with the commissioners of Northern Lights

To his grace the Duke of Buccleuch

Postscriptum

Songs and verses from Waverley: I. 'And did ye not hear of a mirth befell'

II. 'Late when the autumn evening fell'

III. 'The knight's to the mountain'

IV. 'It's up glembarchan's braes I gaed'

V. 'Hie away, hie away'

VI. St. Swithin's chair

VII. 'Young men will love thee more fair and more fast'

VIII. Flora MacIvor's song

IX. To an oak tree

X. 'We are bound to drive the bullocks'

XI. 'But follow, follow me'

For a' that an' a' that

Farewell to Mackenzie high chief of Kintail

Imitation of the preceding song

War-song of Lachlan, high chief of Maclean

Saint cloud

The dance of death

Romance of Dunois

The troubadour

'It chanced that cupid on a season'

Song on the lifting of the banner of the house of buccleuch at a great football match on carterhaugh

Songs from Guy Mannering: I. 'Canny moment, lucky fit'

II. 'Twist ye, twine ye! even so'

III. 'Wasted, weary, wherefore stay'

IV. 'Dark shall be light'

Lullaby of an infant chief

The return to Ulster

Jock of hazeldean

Pibroch of Donald Dhu

Nora's vow

Macgregor's gathering

Verses sung at the dinner given to the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia and his suite, 19th December, 1816

Verses from the antiquary: I. "He came, but valor had so fired his eye'

II. 'Why sit'st thou by that ruined hall'

III. Epitaph

IV. "The herring loves the merry moon-light'

Verses from old mortality: I. 'And what though winter will pinch severe'

II. Verses found, with a lock of hair, in Bothwell's pocketbook

III. Epitaph on balfour of burley

The search after happiness

Lines written for Miss Smith

Mr. Kemble's farewell address on taking leave of the Edinburgh state

The sun upon the weirdlaw hill

Song from Rob Roy

The monks of bangor's march

Epilogue to 'The appeal'

Mackrimmon's lament

Donald Caird's come again

Madge Wildfire's songs

The battle of Sempach

The noble moringer

Epitaph on Mrs. Erskine

Songs from the bride of Lammermoor: I. 'Look not thou on beauty's charming'

II. 'The monk must arise when the matins king'

III. 'When was the last laird of Ravenswood to Ravenswood shall ride'

Songs from the legend of Montrose: I. Ancient Gaelic melody

II. The orphan maid

Verses from Ivanhoe: The crusader's return

II. The barefooted friar

III. 'Norman saw on English oak'

IV. Ware-song

V. Rebecca's hymn

VI. The black knight and wamba

VII. Another carol by the same

VIII. Funeral hymn

Verses from the Monastery: I. Answer to introductory epistle

II. Border song

III. Songs of the white lady of Avenal

IV. To the sub-prior

V. Halbert's incantation

VI. To Halbert

VII. To the same

VIII. To the same

IX. To Mary Avenel

X. To Edward Glendinning

XI. The white lady's farewell

Goldthred's song from Kenilworth: Verses from the pirate: I. The song of the tempest

II. Halcro's song

III. Song of Harold Harfager

IV. Song of the mermaids and mermen

V. Norna's verses

VI. Halcro and Norna

VII. The fisherman's song

VIII. Cleveland's songs

IX. Halco's verses

X. Norna's incantations

XI. The same, at the meeting with Minna

XII. Bryce Snailsfoot's advertisement

'On Ettrick forest's mountians dun'

The maid of Isla

Farewell to the muse

Nigel's initiation at Whitefrairs

' Carle, now the king's come'

The bannatyne club

County guy

Epilogue to the drama founded on 'Saint Ronan's well'

Epilogue

Verses from Redgauntlet: I.A catch of Cowley's altered

II. 'As Lords their laborers' hire delay'

Lines addressed to monsieur Alexandre, the celebrated ventriloquist

To J.G. Lockhart, esq., on the composition of Maida's epitaph

Songs from the betrothed: I. 'Soldier, wake!'

II. Woman's faith

III. 'I asked of my harp'

IV. 'Widowed wife and wedded maid'

Verses from the talisman: I. 'Dark ahriman, whom irak still'

II. 'What brave chief shall head the forces'

III. The bloody vest

Verses from Woodstock: I. 'By pathless march, by greenwood tree'

II. Glee for King Charles

III. 'An hour with thee'

IV. 'Son of a witch'

Lines to Sir Cuthbert Sharp

Verses from chronicles of the canongate: I. Old song

II. The lady of poor Louise

III. Death chant

IV. Song of the glee-maiden

The death of Keeldar

The secret tribunal

The foray

Inscription for the monument of the Rev. George Scott

Songs from the doom of devorgoil: I. 'The sun upon the lake'

II. 'We love the shrill trumpet'

III. Admire not that I gained the prize'

IV. 'When the tempest'

V. Bonny Dundee

VI. 'When friends are met'

'Hither we come'

The death of Don Pedro

Lines on fortune