CONTENTS.
THIRD PERIOD—FROM DRYDEN TO COWPER.
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY
To a very young Lady
Song
JOHN POMFRET
The Choice
THE EARL OF DORSET
Song
JOHN PHILIPS
The Splendid Shilling
WALSH, GOULD, &c.
SIR SAMUEL GARTH
The Dispensary
SIR RICHARD BLACKMORE
Creation
ELIJAH FENTON
An Ode to the Right Hon. John Lord Gower
ROBERT CRAWFORD
The Bush aboon Traquair
THOMAS TICKELL
To the Earl of Warwick, on the death of Mr Addison
JAMES HAMMOND
Elegy XIII
SEWELL, VANBRUGH, &c.
RICHARD SAVAGE
The Bastard
THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER
An American Love Ode
JONATHAN SWIFT
Baucis and Philemon
On Poetry
On the Death of Dr Swift
A Character, Panegyric, and Description of the Legion-Club,1736
ISAAC WATTS
Few Happy Matches
The Sluggard
The Rose
A Cradle Hymn
Breathing toward the Heavenly Country
To the Rev. Mr John Howe
AMBROSE PHILIPS
A Fragment of Sappho
WILLIAM HAMILTON
The Braes of Yarrow
ALLAN RAMSAY
Lochaber no more
Tho Last Time I came o'er the Moor
From 'The Gentle Shepherd'—Act I., Scene II.
DODSLEY, BROWN, &c
ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE
Imitation of Thomson
Imitation of Pope
Imitation of Swift
WILLIAM OLDYS
Song, occasioned by a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale
ROBERT LLOYD
The Miseries of a Poet's Life
HENRY CAREY
Sally in our Alley
DAVID MALLETT
William and Margaret
The Birks of Invermay
JAMES MERRICK
The Chameleon
DR JAMES GRAINGER
Ode to Solitude
MICHAEL BRUCE
To the Cuckoo
Elegy, written in Spring
CHRISTOPHER SMART
Song to David
THOMAS CHATTERTON
Bristowe Tragedy
Minstrel's Song
The Story of William Canynge
Kenrick
February, an Elegy
LORD LYTTELTON
From the 'Monody'
JOHN CUNNINGHAM
May-eve; or, Kate of Aberdeen
ROBERT FERGUSSON
The Farmer's Ingle
DR WALTER HARTE
EDWARD LOVIBOND
The Tears of Old May-Day
FRANCIS FAWKES
The Brown Jug
JOHN LANGHORNE
From 'The Country Justice'
Gipsies
A Case where Mercy should have mitigated Justice
SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE
The Lawyer's Farewell to his Muse
JOHN SCOTT
Ode on hearing the Drum
The Tempestuous Evening
ALEXANDER ROSS
Woo'd, and Married, and a'
The Rock an' the wee pickle Tow
RICHARD GLOVER
From 'Leonidas,' Book XII
Admiral Hosier's Ghost
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD
Variety
WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE
Cumnor Hall
The Mariner's Wife
LORD NUGENT
Ode to Mankind
JOHN LOGAN
The Lovers
Written in a Visit to the Country in Autumn
Complaint of Nature
THOMAS BLACKLOCK
The Author's Picture
Ode to Aurora, on Melissa's Birthday
MISS ELLIOT AND MRS COCKBURN
The Flowers of the Forest
The Same
SIR WILLIAM JONES
A Persian Song of Hafiz
SAMUEL BISHOP
To Mrs Bishop
To the Same
SUSANNA BLAMIRE
The Nabob
What Ails this Heart o' mine?
JAMES MACPHERSON
Ossian's Address to the Sun
Desolation of Balclutha
Fingal and the Spirit of Loda
Address to the Moon
Fingal's Spirit-home
The Cave
WILLIAM MASON
Epitaph on Mrs Mason
An Heroic Epistle to Sir William Chambers
JOHN LOWE
Mary's Dream
JOSEPH WARTON
Ode to Fancy
MISCELLANEOUS
Song
Verses, copied from the Window of an obscure Lodging-house, in the
neighbourhood of London
The Old Bachelor
Careless Content
A Pastoral
Ode to a Tobacco-pipe
Away! let nought to Love displeasing
Richard Bentley's sole Poetical Composition
Lines addressed to Pope