CONTENTS

Page

THE Beggar Man

. Original ..

The Cuckoo .

: Logan .

The Grasshopper

Cowley

Hymn . . :

Oratorio of Ab

The Fly .

Anonymous 7

The Blind Boy

Cibber . 8

The Bulfinch' in To

Lacy Luxborough g

The Kid .

Shenitone . . 10

The First of April

i. Warton . . II

India

Original .. 13

Midnight ,

Dryden . . 14

fortitude . . . . .

: Mrs. Barbauld

.

To Morning

Mason : .

Trees and Plants

Prior . . . 16

The Thrush

Williams ... 18

The Dead Sparrow : : :

Anonymous. 19

The Swallow .

Originali : 20

Ode on Solitude

Pope .' . 22

Spring : : :

Mrs Barbauld 23

: :

The Mouse's Petition :

Mrs Barbauld 23

Birds : :

Mrs Barbauld

: :
Ipfects

Mrs. Barb.:ud

The Frozen Shower

A Phillips 30

Falie Greatness . .

Watts . 37

The Old Man's Comforts

Anthology 32

The Traveller's Returą

Anthology :

To Fortune : :

Thomson i

:

Day and Night : ..

• Gay

The Tame Stag :

. Gay

Gay . .

The Lion and the Fawns

The Deer and Savage Beasts

Pope's Homer 39

The Ass .

. . Pope's Homer 40

Pope's Homer 40

The Fiedmontese and his Masmok : Original . . 41

Moonlight

42

: : : :

Pope's Homer

Suow

Pope's Homer 43

Pope's Homer

.

Harvest

The

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CONTENTS,

Page

The Torrent ,

Pitt's Virgil . 43

The Caged Lark

. Anon. S. 44

The Beagle and Fawn

. Pope's Homer. 44

The Horse .. .

Pope's Homer. 45

The Sailor

Anon. . . 45

The Midsummer Wish

Croxall . . 46

The War Horse

Dryden's Virgil 47

The Chariot Race

Dryden's Virgil

The Polar Winter ..

Dryden's Virgil

Ś The Alps at Day-Break

Rogers . .

16 The Olive

Pope's Homer

7A Wish

Rogers . .

. Pity

Darwin . .

hg Ascending the Alps

Pope . .

jó Four Seasons .

Williams

1 A Wilh

Williams

. .

A Storm

Dryden's Virgil

14 Hassan, or The Camel Driver

Collins .

The Orange Tree .

Lord Lyttelton

The Generations of Man

Pope's Homer

Wolves

Thomson

A Flood

Pope's Homer

The Fly

Anon.

28 To a Bee

i Anthology

2: The Cranes

Anon,

2; The Strength of v irtue

Milton

2; The Nightingale

Lee

The Serpent .

Dryden's Vi

Content .

Williams

The Summer Evening Walk

White

Recovery from Sickness

Gray

The Whirlwind . . . .

Dryden's Virgil

To Leven Water . .

Smollet .. 72

Hay-Making . .

Gay . . 73

Noon . .

Gay .. . 74

To a Hedge-Sparrow

Anthology .

3 The Approach of a Storm

Dryden. .

34 The Huntsman

• Williams ..

40 Constantinople . ..

• Original . 78

The Thames

Scott . .

4f The Tempestuous Evening . . Scott . .

CONTENTS.

The Pleasant Evening i ..

Description of a Cottage

Another

The Hire and Tortoise

The Orphan Boy

Against Slavery

The Laboui of Idleness

Day, A Pastoral

The Beggar's Petition

The Dying Negro .

The Beau Disconcerted

Exercise . .

.:

To a Robin Redbreast

.

The Emmel . .

.

The Approach of Winter..

The Lark . .

Sunshine after a Shower

i

Epitaph on a Lapdog."

Arabia

Cheerfulness

The Cock '.

The Fallen Oak

A Couotry Life

A Grove .

The Happy Man

Innocence

A Winter Song

The Varity of Greatness

Prince Leeboo

The Winter Torrent

Hunting the Hare

The Fairy's Song

The Eagle

The Flare .

Echo . .

The Florist .

The Oftrich

The Peacock

The Wild Ass

The Lion

. Scott .

Scott.

Scoit .

Lloyd . .

Thelwall

Cowper ..

Miss Mose.

Cunningham.

Anon. . .

Anon.

Gay . he

Parnel . .

. Langlorne .

. Watis. .

Scott . .

"Whitehead .

. Warton . 100

Blacklock 101

Original . 101

Bickerstaff : 102

Dryden . 103

Crabbe

103

Brown . . 104

Dryden · , 104,

Dryden . 105

Shakespear , 106

Shakespear . 106

Shirley . . 107

Original . . 108

Dryden ii 110

Somerville : 111

Anon. . . 112

Congreve : 113

Dryden . . 113

Addison ..

114

B. Jonson ..

Young . .

Young . :

Young . . 1:6

Young : : !!7

114

AROUND the fire one wintry night
The farmer's rosy children sat;
The faggot lent its blazing light,
And jokes went round and careless chat.

When, hark! a gentle hand they hear
Low tapping at the bolted door,
And thus, to gain their willing ear,
A feeble voice was heard t'implore.

« Cold

The Beggar Man. of Cold blows the blast across the moor, The fleet drives hifling in the wind; Yon toilsome mountain lies before, A dreary treeless waste behind.

“ My eyes are weak and dim with age,
No road, no path, can I descry,
And these poor rags ill ftand the rage
Of such a keen inclement sky.

“So faint I am these tottering feet
No more my palfied frame can bear;
My freezing heart forgets to beat,
And drifting snows my tomb preparę.

“ Open your hospitable door,
And shield me from the biting blast:
Cold, cold it blows across the moor,
The weary moor that I have pass’d!”

With hafty step the farmer ran,
And clofe beside the fire they place
The poor half-frozen beggar man
With shaking limbs and blue-pale face.