Inside cover of the Kilmarnock volume

The Kilmarnock volume, also known as Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, — printed and issued by John Wilson, Kilmarnock, on 31st July 1786, was the first edition of poet Robert Burns' work. Kilmarnock (Cill Meàrnaig locally known as Killie) is a large Burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of 44170 Year 1786 ( MDCCLXXXVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796 (also known as Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, the Bard of Ayrshire It cost 3 s and 600 copies were printed. The shilling is a unit of Currency used in current and former Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth The volume was dedicated to Gavin Hamilton. Gavin Hamilton may refer to Gavin Hamilton (archbishop, 16th century Archbishop of St Andrews Gavin Hamilton (bishop, (1561 – 1612 The Kilmarnock volume contained, besides satire, a number of poems like "The Twa Dogs" and "The Cotter's Saturday Night," which are vividly descriptive of the Scots peasant life with which he was most familiar; and a group like "Puir Mailie" and To a Mouse, which, in the tenderness of their treatment of animals, revealed one of the most attractive sides of Burns' personality. "To A Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With The Plough" is a Scots Poem written by Robert Burns in 1785 and was included in the

See also

• Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect
• Address to the Deil
• To a Mountain Daisy
• Epitaph for James Smith

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