Yet Clare's sharp questions must I shun,

Must separate Constance from the nun

;Oh! what a tangled web we weave

;When first we practise to deceive!

A Palmer too! No wonder why

I felt rebuked beneath his eye;

Appearance on banknotes

The Waverley Novels

• Waverley (1814)
• Guy Mannering (1815)
• The Antiquary (1816)
• Rob Roy (1817)
• The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
• Ivanhoe (1819)
• Kenilworth (1821)
• The Pirate (1822)
• The Fortunes of Nigel (1822)
• Peveril of the Peak (1822)
• Quentin Durward (1823)
• St. Ronan's Well (1824)
• Redgauntlet (1824)
• Tales of the Crusaders, consisting of The Betrothed and The Talisman (1825)
• Woodstock (1826)
• Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series, The Fair Maid of Perth (1828)
• Anne of Geierstein (1829)

Tales of My Landlord

• 1st series The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality (1816)
• 2nd series, The Heart of Midlothian (1818)
• 3rd series, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose (1819)
• 4th series, Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous (1832)

Tales from Benedictine Sources

• The Monastery (1820)
• The Abbot (1820)

Short stories collections

• Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st series (1827). Collection of three short stories:

• The Keepsake Stories (1828). Collection of three short stories:

Poetry

• Translations and Imitations from German Ballads (1796)
• The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802—1803)
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
• Ballads and Lyrical Pieces (1806)
• Marmion (1808)
• The Lady of the Lake (1810)
• The Vision of Don Roderick (1811)
• The Bridal of Triermain (1813)
• Rokeby (1813)
• The Field of Waterloo (1815)
• The Lord of the Isles (1815)
• Harold the Dauntless (1817)
• Young Lochinvar
• Bonnie Dundee (1830)
• Patriotism
• This Is My Own, My Native Land
• The Lion of Scotland

Other

• Introductory Essay to The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland (1814—1817)
• The Chase (translator) (1796)
• Goetz of Berlichingen (translator) (1799)
• Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1816)
• Provincial Antiquities of Scotland (1819—1826)
• Lives of the Novelists (1821—1824)
• Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and Drama Supplement to the 1815—24 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
• Halidon Hill (1822)
• The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther (1826)
• The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte (1827)
• Religious Discourses (1828)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 1st series (1828)
• History of Scotland, 2 vols. (1829—1830)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd series (1829)
• The Doom of Devorgoil (1830)
• Wild Deception (1830)
• Essays on Ballad Poetry (1830)
• Tales of a Grandfather, 3rd series (1830)
• Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (1830)
• The Bishop of Tyre

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