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THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
JANET LITTLE,
THE
SCOTCH MILKMAID.

AIR:
PRINTED BY JOHN & PETER WILSON.

M,DCC,XCII.

Entered in Stationers’ Hall.

TO THE
RIGHT HONOURABLE
FLORA,
COUNTESS OF LOUDOUN,
THE FOLLOWING
POEMS
ARE
WITH PERMISSION,
HUMBLY INSCRIBED,
BY
YOUR LADYSHIP’S]

EVER GRATEFUL,
AND OBEDIENT
HUMBLE SERVANT,
JANET LITTLE,

CONTENTS.

Page
To Hope[27]
On Happiness[32]
Upon a young Lady’s leaving Loudoun Castle[37]
The fickle Pair[40]
To a Lady, a Patroness of the Muses, on her Recovery from Sickness[42]
The Lottery Ticket[45]
The Month’s Love[47]
Damon and Philander[50]
Colin and Alexis[58]
Almeda and Flavia[62]
On the Spring[72]
William and Mary[75]
Lothario[78]
Amanda, an Elegy on the Death of Mrs. ——, personating her Husband[83]
Celia and her Looking Glass[86]
The unfortunate Rambler[91]
Lucina, an Elegy[94]
The envied Kiss[98]
The young Man’s Resolution[100]
To a young Man under Sentence of Death for Forgery, from his Mistress[101]
On an unlooked for Separation from a Friend[104]
Written January first, 1792[106]
On a Visit to Mr. Burns[111]
Given to a Lady who asked me to write a Poem[113]
Epistle to Nell, wrote from Loudoun Castle[117]
Nell’s Answer[120]
Another Epistle to Nell[122]
An Epistle to a Lady[125]
From Snipe, a favourite Dog, to his Master[129]
On the Death of J—— H——, Esq.[133]
On the Birth of J—— H——, Esq.’s Son[138]
On a Gentleman’s proposing to travel 300 Miles to see J—— H——, Esq.’s Child[140]
Verses written on a Foreigner’s visiting the Grave of a Swiss Gentleman, buried among the Descendents of Sir William Wallace, Guardian of Scotland in the thirteenth Century[142]
From Philander to Eumenes[144]
Sylvia and Armeda[147]
The captivated Soldier[150]
On reading Lady Mary Montague and Mrs. Rowe’s Letters[153]
Upon a young Lady’s breaking a Looking Glass[155]
An Acrostic upon a young Woman, written by her Lover[158]
An extemporary Acrostic[159]
An Epistle to Mr. Robert Burns[160]
To my Aunty[164]
On Halloween[167]
On seeing Mr. —— Baking Cakes[171]
A Poem on Contentment[173]
Alcanzar[180]
Alonzo to Delia[184]
Delia to Alonzo[185]
From Delia to Alonzo, who had sent her a slighting Epistle[188]
From Flavia to Carlos[192]
To Nell when at Moffat Well[195]
A young Lady’s Lamentation for the Loss of her Sister by Marriage[197]
The Rival Swains[202]
To a Lady who sent the Author some Paper, with a Reading of Sillar’s Poems[206]

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