267 269 . 211 dy's Bonnet ai 282 . 282 . . 283 . . - . . 285 Verses lent at a Friend's House A Prayer under the Pressure of violent Anguish The first six Verses of the ninetieth Psalm To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the To Miss L-, with Beauie's Poems as a New-year's XVI. The Bag of Gold . . 273 XVII. A Character. 274 XVIII. Sorrento . 275 27€ To a Louse. On seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard. April Verses written to be spoken by Mrs. Siddons 281 To the same. April 21st, 1785....... E istle to J. R******, enclos ne Poems Captivity: 2:26 To a Voice that had been lost 226 To the Fragment of a Statue of 227 To a Friend on his Marriage 218 Imitation of an Italian Sonnet When wild War's de last was blawn 228 To the Youngest Daughter of Lady **** 2.2 An Epitaph on a Robin-redbreast'. Bannockburn. Robert Bruce's Address to his A 220 Written at Mid 230 Written in the Highlands of Scotland, September 2, Sony . 232 232 The bonnie Lad that's far awa'.. . Behold my Mother and my Brethren 244 Bartimeus restored to Sight 244 Little Children brought io Jesus Jesus walks on the Sea, and calms the Storm 218 Jesus appears to the Disciples 219 Paul accused before the Tribunal of the Areopagus 302 230 Paul accused before the Roman Governor or Judea 251 Paraphrase.-Psalm ciii. 3, 4. On Visiting Melrose, after an Absence of sixteen 255 The Wild Duck and her Brood 255 To a Redbreast that flew in al my Window Epitaph on a Blackbird killed by a Hawk . . 2013 The Thanksgiving off Cape Trafalgar . . 303 taly.-Part II. 261 - VI. The Campagna of Rome 265 - III. . . . . . . . 314 1. Poems occasioned by Political Events, or Feel- 370 Ode to the departing Year. Fears in Solitude. Written in April, 1798, dur. 383 ing the Alarm of an Invasion Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue Recantation, illustrated in the Story of the Mad Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 528 399 Lewli, or the Circassian Love-chant.. The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution. 530 400 The Night-scene. A Dramatic Fragment To an unfortunate Woman, whom the Author had known in the Days of her Innocence . 5:32 To an unfortunate Woman at the Theatre, 532 Lines composed in a Concert-room . . 40 Answer to a Child's Question Winite . . . . . . 411 To a Young Lady. On her Recove Sunething childish, but very natural. Written Te Excursion, tieing a Portion of the Recluse. 4:25 On re visiting the Sea shore, after long Absence, under strong inedical recommendations not to TI. The Churchyard among the Mountaing 439 III V ative s. Inbank verse: VII. The Churchyard among the Mountains, Hymn fore Sunrise, in the tale of Chamouny continueit. . . . . frs Lab Written in the Album at Elbingerude, in O bserving a Blossom on the first of February; The culian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, So. Rilins on having lert årlienis Retiremeni Tilliebte George (itirilge of Ourry St. Mary, Inscriptora Fiuntain on a Heath 492 This Lime-tree Bower my Prison Tot Gentleman. Cumused on the Night after bis Rocation of a Puem on the Growth of an 313 Tu a Friend, who had declared his Intention of The Nichtingale: n Conversation Pvem. Writ. 072 5419 Linn m April, 1795. . . . . STAN1. Written chiedy during various Journeys. Il a Friend, iosether with an unfinished Porm 511 1 Hour when we shall meet again, Composed Sinnet. Written al Tynemouth, Northumber- Wiring lilars and in Alisence . . laurl, after a tempestuous Voyage Lini !, Joseph Cotle . . . . 511 511 11. ( And Miscllaneous Poems:- The Three Graves. A Fragment of a Sexton's Sinet. On leaving a Village in Scotland .. Geirsiana, Dutchess of Devonshire, on S 11net. To the River Itchin, near Winton · 515 T wenty furth Stanza in her. Passage over Sinnet. At Dover Cliffs, July ? Srnit. Al Ostend, landing, July To Young Friend, on his proposing in domesti: Sauet. At Ostend, July 22, 1787 cate with the Author. Comjoged in 1793 . Linee to W.L. Ese, while he sang a song to Allrs to a Young Man of Fortune, who abandoned himself to an indolent and cause- Signet. On a distant View of England Sunnet. To the River Cherwell, Oxford Sanni. Composed on a Journey honeward ; the Author harig received Intelligence if the Duhofasin. September 20, 1795 . . 517 Sinnet. To 2 Friend, who asked how I fo 518 wilen the Nurse tirst presented my lofant The Virgin's Cradle Hymn. Copied from the Print if the Virgin in a Catholic Village in oniha nristening of a Friend's Child'.. Sonnet. On revisiting Oxford' . · · · Tell's Birthplace. Imitated from Stolberg. 554 The Falling Leaf For the first Leaf of a Lady The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Sch Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream 555 Time employed, Time enjoyed Young Lady from whom the Author had re- The Rime of the Ancient Marine ceived an elegantly wrought Watch-pocket . 556 A Voyage round the World." . . . . . . SIR WALTER SCOTT. 539 VIL. . . The Lay of the Last Minstrel. IL 570 620 570 Marmion. A Tale of Flodden Field. II. The Convent. 633 . . . . IV. The Prophecy. VI. The Guard-room . . . . The Ocean. Written ai Scarborough, in the Sum The Battle of Sempach The Maid of Toro . 586) War Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons . Mac Gregor's Gathering. Writien fur Albyn's An- . . ... 557 thology . . . . The Glowworm." 535 Farewell to the Muse The Oak Imitaied from the lialian or Metastasio ' 599 Hellvellyn 599 The Bard's Incantation. Wrillen under the Threat 539 of Invasion, in the Autumn of 1804 The Stranger and his Friend . . WILLIAM FALCONER. WILLIAM FalcCXER was a native of Edinburgh, | Aurora was never heard of after she passed the and went to sea ai an early age in a merchant Cape, and was thought to have foundered in the vessel of Leith. He was afterwards mate of a Channel of Mozambique ; so that the poet of the ship that was wrecked in the Levant, and was one Shipwreck may be supposed to have perished by thu of only three out of her crew that were saved, a same species of calamity which he had rehearsed. catastrophe which formed the subject of his future. The subject of the Shipwreck, and the fate of poem. He was for some time in the capacity of a its author, bespeak an uncommon partiality in its servant to Campbell, the author of Lexiphanes, favour. If we pay respect to the ingenious scholar when purser of a ship. Campbell is said to have who can produce agreeable verses amidst the discovered in Falconer talents worthy of cultiva- shades of retirement, or the shelves of his library, tion, and when the latter distinguished himself as how much more interest must we take in the "shipa poet, used to boast that he had been his scholar. boy on the high and giddy mast” cherishing refined What he learned from Campbell it is not very easy visions of fancy at the hour which he may casually to ascertain. His education, as he often assured snatch from fatigue and danger. Nor did Falconer Governor Hunter, had been confined to reading, neglect the proper acquirements of seamanship in writing, and a little arithmetic, though in the course cultivating poetry, but evinced considerable knowof his life he picked up some acquaintance with ledge of his profession, both in his Marine Dictionthe French, Spanish, and Italian languages. In ary and in the nautical precepts of the Shipwreck. these his countryman was not likely to have much In that poem he may be said to have added a con. assisted him; but he might have lent him books, genial and peculiarly British subject 10 the lan. and possibly instructed him in the use of figures. guage ; at least, we had no previous poem of any Falconer published his Shipwreck, in 1762, and by length of which the characters and catastrophe the favour of the Duke of York, to whom it was de were purely naval. dicated, obtained the appointment of a midshipman The scene of the catastrophe (though he followed in the Royal George, and afterwards that of purser only the fact of his own history) was poetically in the Glory frigate. He soon afterwards married laid amidst seas and shores where the mind easily a Miss Hicks, an accomplished and beautiful wo- gathers romantic associations, and where it supman, the daughter of the surgeon of Sheerness poses the most picturesque vicissitudes of scenery yard. At the peace of 1763, he was on the point and climate. The spectacle of a majestic British of being reduced to distressed circumstances by his ship on the shores of Greece brings as strong a ship being laid up in ordinary at Chatham, when, a reminiscence to the mind, as can well be by the friendship of Commissioner Hanway, who imagined, of the changes which time has wrought ordered the cabin of the Glory to be fitted up for in transplanting the empire of arts and civilization. his residence, he enjoyed for some time a retreat Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagafor study without expense or embarrassment. Here cious commander, and the rough obstinate Rod. he employed himself in compiling his Marine Dico mond, are well contrasted. Some part of the tionary, which appeared in 1769, and has been love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and proalwaye highly spoken of by those who are capable tracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the of estimating its merits. He embarked also in the calamity leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind politics of the day, as a poetical antagonist to for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her Churchill, but with little advantage to his memory. at once deprived both of a father and a lover. Before the publication of his Marine Dictionary he | The incidents of the Shipwreck, like those of a had left his retreat at Chatham for a less comfort. well-wrought tragedy, gradually deepen, while able abode in the metropolis, and appears to have they yet leave a suspense of hope and fear to the struggled with considerable difficulties, in the midst imagination. In the final scene there is something of which he received proposals from the late Mr. that deeply touches our compassion in the picture Murray, the bookseller, to join him in the business of the unfortunate man who is struck blind by a which he had newly established. The canse of fash of lightning at the helm. I remember, by, his refusing this offer was, in all probability, the the way, to have met with an affecting account of appointment which he received to the pursership the identical calamity befalling the steersman of a of the Aurora, East Indiaman. In that ship he forlorn vessel in a similar moment, given in a prose embarked for India, in September, 1769, but the land veracious history of the loss of a vessel on the coast of America. Falconer skilfully heightens This trait by showing its effect on the commiseration of Rodmond, the roughest of his characters, who guides the victim of misfortune to lay hold of the shrouds. And, while around his sad companions crowd, He guides the unhappy victim to the shroud. Hie thee alost, my gallant friend! he cries; Thy only succour on the mast relies!” The effect of his sea phrases is to give a definite and authentic character to his descriptions; and his poem has the sensible charm of appearing a transcript of reality, and leaves an impression of truth and nature on the mind. "A flash, quick glancing on the nerves or light, | With living colours give my verse to glow, THE SHIPWRECK. The sad memorial of a tale of wo? A scene from dumb oblivion to restore, To fame unknown, and new to epic lore ! Alas; neglected by the sacred Nine, Their suppliant feels no genial ray divine ! Proposal of the subject. Invocation. Apology. Alle. | Ah! will they leave Pieria's happy shore, gorical description of memory. Appeal to her assist: 1 To plough the tide where wintry tempests roar ? ance. The story begun. Retrospect of the former part of the voyage. The ship arrives at Candia. Or shall a youth approach their hallow'd fane, Ancient state of that island. Present state of the Stranger to Phæbus, and the tuneful train ?adjacent isles of Greece. The season of the year. / Far from the Muses' academic grove, Character of the master and his officers. Story of 'Twas his the vast and trackless deep to rove Palemon and Anna. Evening described. Midnight. Alternate change of climates has he known, The ship weighs anchor, and departs from the haven. And felt the fierce extremes of either zone; State of the weather. Morning. Situation of the Where polar skies congeal th' eternal snow, neighbouring shores. Operation of taking the sun'e azimuth. Description of the vessel as seen from the Or equinoctial suns for ever glow land, Smote by the freezing or the scorching blast, “ A ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,"'* The scene is near the city of Candia ; and the time about four days From regions where Peruvian billows roar, and a half. To the bleak coast of savage Labrador. WHILE jarring interests wake the world to arms, From where Damascus, pride of Asian plains ! And fright the peaceful vale with dire alarms; Stoops her proud neck beneath tyrannic chains, While Ocean hears vindictive thunders roll, | To where the isthmus,t laved by adverse tides, Along his trembling wave, from pole to pole ; Atlantic and Pacific seas divides. Sick of the scene, where war, with ruthless hand. But, while he measured o'er the painful race, Spreads desolation o'er the bleeding land; In Fortune's wild illimitable chase, Sick of the tumult, where the trumpet's breath Adversity, companion of his way! Bids ruin smile, and drowns the groan of death! Still o'er the victim hung with iron sway; "Tis mine, retired beneath this cavern hoar, Bade new distresses every instant grow, That stands all lonely on the sea-beat shore, Marking each change of place with change of wo Far other themes of deep distress to sing In regions where th' Almighty's chastening hand Than ever trembled from the vocal string. With livid pestilence afflicts the land; No pomp of battle swells th' exalted strain, Or where palo famine blasts the hopeful year, Nor gleaming arms ring dreadful on the plain : Parent of want and misery severe; But, o'er the scene while pale Remembrance weeps, Or where, all dreadful in ih' embattled line, Fate with fell triumph rides upon the deeps, The hostile ships in flaming combat join : Here hostile elements tumultuous rise, Where the torn vessel, wind and wave assail, And lawless floods rebel against the skies ; Till o'er her crew distress and death prevailTill hope expires, and peril and dismay Where'er he wander'd thus vindictive Fate Wave their black ensigns on the watery way. Pursued his weary steps with lasting hate! Immortal train, who guide the maze of song, Roused by her mandate, storms of black array To whom all science, arts, and arms belong; Winter'd the morn of life's advancing day; Who bid the trumpet of eternal fame Relax'd the sinews of the living lyre, Exalt the warrior's and the poet's name! And quench'd the kindling spark of vital fire.-If e'er with trembling hope I fondly stray'd Thus while forgotten or unknown he woos, In life's fair morn beneath your hallow'd shade, | What hope to win the coy, reluctant Muse ? To hear the sweetly-mournful lute complain, Then let not Censure, with malignant joy, And melt the heart with ecstasy of pain ; The harvest of his humble hope destroy ! Ur listen, while th' enchanting voice of love, His verse no laurel wreath attempts to claim, While all Elysium warbled through the grove; Nor sculptur'd brass to tell the poet's name. O! by the hollow blast that moans around, | 1f terms uncouth, and jarring phrases, wound That sweeps the wild harp with a plaintive sound ; | The softer sense with inharmonious sound. By the long surge that foams through yonder cave, Whose vaults remurmur to the roaring wave; * Shakspeare. Darien. |