[Burns, Robert]. "Thou lingering star with lessening ray …"

Description: A song; with annotation in unknown hand: "Song-addressed to Mary in Heaven--!!!"
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: [1789 approximately November]
Call number: HM 13035.

You might also be interested in

Image not available
[Burns, Robert]. "A down winding 'Nith I did wander …"
Manuscripts
Song titled: "Song-Tune, Geordie's byre." Annotation of explanation in the author's hand at the end of the song. "To Miss Phillis McMurdo--with the Bard's most respectful Complnts."
HM 13044.
Image not available
Burns, Robert. Letter to [Frances Anna Wallace] Dunlop
Manuscripts
Dumfries, [Scotland]. Annotation in unknown hand.
HM 13033.
Image not available
Burns, Robert. Letter to [Robert Riddell]
Manuscripts
Ellisland, [Scotland]. Includes "The Wedding Day, A Song, Tune, The Seventh of Nov." (the last two lines added later in pencil by an unknown hand).
HM 13034.
Image not available
[Burns, Robert]. "'Twas where the birch and sounding thong are ply'd …"
Manuscripts
A poem titled "A Tale," with corrections in the author's hand and annotations in pencil in an unknown hand at the end.
HM 13059.
Image not available
[Burns, Robert]. "The last time I came o'er the moore…"
Manuscripts
A song in three verses. Corrections in the author's hand. On the verso: "Acct. of Books Bot. in to the Mankland Society's Library."
HM 13049.
Image not available
Burns, Robert. Letter to [William Creech]
Manuscripts
Dumfries, [Scotland]. Includes 17 epigrams and a song titled "A Song. -- Tune, My lodging is on the cold ground, beginning "My Chloris, mark how green the groves, …"
HM 13042.