SONNE T.

A LONELY Man he was, from whom these lays Flow'd in his cloister'd musings: He in scorn Held them, the unfeeling multitude, who born For deeds of nobler purpose, their ripe days Waste amidst fraudful industry, to raise Inglorious wealth.

But He, life's studious morn

Gave to the Muse, so best might he adorn
His thoughtful brow with never-dying bays.
And well the Muse repaid him. She hath given
An unsubstantial world of richer fee;

High thoughts, unchanging visions, that the leaven
Of earth partake not; Rich then must he be,
Who of this cloudless world, this mortal heaven,
Possesseth in his right the Sovereignty.

CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF GRAY, by the Rev. J. Mitford

Appendix to the Memoir

Page.

i

xciii

POEMS.

Ode. On the Spring.

1

Ode. On the Death of a favourite Cat, drowned in a Tub

of Gold Fishes

6

The Vegtam's Kivitha; or, the Descent of Odin

The Triumphs of Owen

Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West.

75

84

87

90

Translation of a Passage from Statius

126

The Fragment of a Tragedy, on the Subject of the Death

Tophet. An Epigram

Impromptu, on the Seat of a deceased Nobleman

The Candidate.

159

161

163

Alcaic Fragment

Latin Lines, addressed to Mr. West, from Genoa

Elegiac Verses, occasioned by the sight of the Plains

where the Battle of Trebia was fought

Carmen ad C. Favonium Zephyrinum

Fragment of a Latin Poem on the Gaurus

A Farewell to Florence

173

177

183

137

188

188

189

192

196

197

198

Part of an Heroic Epistle from Sophonisba to Masinissa 200

De Principiis Cogitandi, Liber Primus

In Baccha Furentis Statuam

In Alexandrum, are effictum

In Medeæ Imaginem, Nobile Timomachi Opus

In Niobes Statuam

A Nymph offering a Statue of herself to Venus.

In Amorem. Dormientem

219