CONTENTS.

ENGLISH POEMS.

Morning, a Pastoral,

Noon, a Pastoral,

Night, a Pastoral,

The Complaint,

The Decay of Friendship,

Against Repining at Fortune,

Conscience,

Damon to his Friends,

Retirement,

Ode to Hope,

The Rivers of Scotland,

The Town and Country contrasted,

Ode to Pity,

On the Cold Month of April 1771,

The Simile,

The Bugs,

A Saturday's Expedition,

The Canongate Playhouse in Ruins,

Fashion,

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The Amputation, a Burlesque Elegy,

Verses written at the Hermitage of Braid,

A Tale,

The Peasant, the Hen, and Young Ducks, a

Fable,

Songs,

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Extempore Verses,

On seeing a Lady paint herself,

Extempore Verses,

On the Death of Mr Thomas Lancashire,

Comedian,

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To the Memory of Cunningham, the Poet,

The Delights of Virtue,

A Tavern Elegy,

Character of a Friend,

To Dr Samuel Johnson,

Good Eating,

Tea,

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The Sow of Feeling,

An Expedition to Fife and the Island of May, 75

To Sir John Fielding, on his attempting to

suppress the Beggar's Opera,

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My Last Will,

Codicil to my Last Will,

Epigram on seeing scales used in a Mason

Lodge,

Epitaph on General Wolfe,

Epigram on the numerous Epitaphs for Gen.

Wolfe,

SCOTTISH POEMS.

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Epilogue, spoken by Mr Wilson in the cha-

racter of an Edinburgh Buck,

An Eclogue,

An Eclogue to the Memory of Dr Wilkie,

Elegy on Professor Gregory,

The Daft Days,

The King's Birth-day in Edinburgh,

Cauler Oysters,

Braid Claith,

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Hallowfair,

Ode to the Bee,

On seeing a Butterfly in the Street,

Ode to the Gowdspink,

Cauler Water,

The Sitting of the Session,

The Rising of the Session,

Leith Races,

The Farmer's Ingle,

The Election,

To the Tron-Kirk Bell,

Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Cause-

way,

A Drink Eclogue,

To the Principal and Professors of the Uni-

versity of St Andrews, on their superb

treat to Dr Johnson,

Elegy on John Hogg,

The Ghaists, a Kirk-yard Eclogue,

Epistle to Mr R. Ferguson,

Answer to the Epistle,

To my Auld Breeks,

Auld Reekie,

Hame Content, a Satire,

POSTHUMOUS PIECES.

Job, Chap. iii. Paraphrased,

Ode to Horror,

Ode to Disappointment,

Dirge,

Horace, Ode xi. lib. 1.

On Night,

The Author's Life,

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Song,

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Epigram on a Lawyer's desiring one of the

Tribe to look with respect to a Gibbet,

On the Author's intention of going to Sea,

Extempore Epigram,

Lines addressed to R. F. by Mr Woods,

The Vanity of Human Wishes,

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POEMS

ON

VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

PASTORAL I.

MORNING.

DAMON, ALEXIS.

DAMON.

AURORA now her welcome visit pays;
Stern darkness flies before her cheerful rays;
Cool circling breezes whirl along the air,
And early shepherds to the fields repair :
Lead we our flocks, then, to the mountain's brow,
Where junipers and thorny brambles grow;
Where founts of water 'midst the daisies spring,
And soaring larks and tuneful linnets sing;
Your pleasing song shall teach our flocks to stray,
While sounding echoes smooth the sylvan lay.

ALEXIS.

'Tis thine to sing the graces of the morn,
The zephyr trembling o'er the ripening corn;

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