The range of his work is extensive, from elegant court songs including "Lyk as the dum Solsequium" and "Melancholie, grit deput of Dispair" to the bitter, sometimes contorted word-play of the sonnets associated with the dispute over his pension, from witty pieces addressed to the king to the profound religious sensibility of "A godly prayer" and the extraordinary "Come, my childrene dere". Montgomerie is one of the finest of Middle Scots poets, and perhaps the greatest Scottish exponent of the sonnet form (although the twentieth-century poets Robert Garioch and Edwin Morgan were also fine sonnetteers).