« Say what abridgement have you for this evening ?
What mask? What music ? How shall we beguile
The lazy time, if not with some delight ?”

SHAKSPEARE.

EDINBURGH:

PUBLISHED BY

JOHN AITKEN, ST. ANTHONY'S PLACE ;
JOHN LUMSDEN, GLASGOW ; HODGES & MʻARTHUR,

DUBLIN; AND KNIGHT & LACEY, LONDON.

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THE Rainbow

Lights and Shadows. 1

The Lily of the Valley

Croly.

Love's Philosophy

Shelley.

12

The Broken Heart

Sketch Book.

13

The Rose in January

Anonymous.

Life in the Country

Hermit in the Country. 25

Caroline

Campbell.

28

Maxims

Quarles, (1658.)

30

Truth

N. Breton, (1616.)

To T** L** H** during sickness L. Hunt.

31

Sonnet. “ Eternal and omnipotent Unseen." Horace Smith.

32

A Tale for a Chimney Corner.

Indicator.

The Soul's Errand

Sir W. Raleigh.

Roman Gladiators

Valerius.

41

Love and Reason

Moore.

45

A Rural Description

Bergerac, (1658.) 46

Hebrew Melody.

" When coldness wraps this

Byron.

48

suffering clay."

The Shrubbery

Potter

49

60

Lines written in Richmond Churchyard, Herbert Knowles

Johnson.

Ortogrul of Bazra

61

An Olde Tale

Heptameron, (1597.) 63

Masaniello

Holford.

65

Byron,

71

The Isles of Greece

The Downfal of Holy Church

Points of Humour. 74

Maternity

Hermit in London.

The Widow and her Son

Sketch Book.

81

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Fiammetta and Boccaccio

London Magazine 86

The Youth of Genius

D'Israeli

90

Gilbert ! Gilbert !

Indicator

92

Stanzas. “ The turf shall be my fragrant shrine.” Moore

94

The Cacique of Ontario

Elegant Tales

95

Fragment. “O leave the lily on its stem. . . Coleridge

106

Address to the Mummy in Belzoni's

Nero Mon. Mag.

109

Exhibition

Evaline

Druid

111

The Violet

Sir W. Scott

114

Address to a Wild Deer in the Forest

Wilson

115

of Dalness

On the Inconveniences Resulting

C. Lamb

119

from being Hanged .

Song:

“ The fountaines smoake, and yet no flames Garden of Delights(1610) 126

they shewe.”

The Progress of Inconstancy

M Diarmid

127

Impromptu on the Helen of Canova Byron

135

Lines to my Children

C. Lloyd

136

The Cavern of Hoonga

Mariner's Tonga Islands 138

The Too-early opening Flower

Bororing

140

A Frenchman

Heylin, (1679)

142

Maxim

Warwick, (1637) 142

The Disinterment

Ollier

143

Kilmeny

Hogg

148

Hell's Bridge

Anonymous

155

The First of March

New Mon. Mag. 158

The Wife

Sketch Book

159

The Grave of Anna

Gifford

164

Man

New Mon. Mag. 165

Letter from the Countess Dowager of

Nithsdale, giving an Account

Antig. Trans.

166

of the Earl's escape out of the

Tower in 1716

The Falls of Ohiopyle

December Tales 175

Stanzas from the Spanish

Edin. Review

181

Erin Mavourneen, Farewell !

Europ. Mag.

181

Happiness

Colton's Lacon

183

The Tropical Night

Anonymous

184

Evening Thoughts on Death

Bowring

186

Letter to the Earl of Chesterfield Johnson

188

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Trinity College, Cambridge, Forty

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Nero Mon. Mag.

189

Years ago

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Stanzas written at the Close of a Year Edin. Mag.

192

Polycarpa Salabarrieta

Life of Sir G. M.Gregor 194

Dreams

The Graces

195

Elegy, “ Fair was tby blossoma tender flower," Hogs

196

Peace and War

Prose by a Poet 198

The Voice of Spring

New Mon. Mag.

201

A True Story

Indicator

203

A Tale of True Love

May You Like it

205

The Merchant of Venice

Fales of Humour 221

Unforeseen Pleasures

Ravelin': Lucubrations 232

Templeton

Ravelin's Lucubrations 237

Remembrance

Southey

249

The Pains of Sleep

Coleridge

250

A Poet's Epitaph

Wordsworth

251

The Stout Gentleman

Bracebridge Hall 253

Mortality

Knox

260

The Last Hours of Sir W. Rawleigh. D'Israeli

262

Stanzas The gentle season of the yeere.” Phønix Nest, (1593) 266

The Destruction of Sennacherib Byron

267

Sonnet " Let me not to the marriage of true minds." Shakespeare

268

Leonora, a Recollection from my Travels Knight's Quart. Mag. 269

Noche Serena

New Mon. Mag. 272

Recollections of the Pen-

The Battle of Albuera

insula

273

The Old Cumberland Beggar

Wordsworth

278

A Good Old Man

Bishop Earle, (1628) 282

Rosario

N. Buonaparté

283

Herod's Lament for Mariamne Byron

291

Napoleon

Reveries of a Recluse 292

The Dirge of Alaric the Visigoth Everitt

297

The Search after Happiness, or the

Sir W. Scott

299

Quest of Sultaun Solimaun

The Source of the Nile

Bruce's Travels

307

To a Tuft of Early Violets

Gifford

308

To-Day

New Mon. Mag. 310

Byrd's Psalmes, &c.

Song, “My mind to me a kingdom is."

(1588)

314

The Doomed Man

London Mag

316

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