POEMS OF OSSIAN,

&c.

CONTAINING THE

POETICAL WORKS

OP

JAMES MACPHERSON, Esq.

IN

PROSE AND RHYME :

WITH NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

MALCOLM LAING, Esg.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH :

PRINTED BY JAMES BALLANTYNL,
FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO, EDINBURGH;
LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, CADELL AND DAVIES,

AND J. MAWMAN, LONDON.

1805.

CONTENTS

OF THE

SECOND VOLUME.

Page,

1

51

81

.

TEMora, Book I.

Book II...

Book III.

Book IV.

Book V.

Book VI.

Book VII.

Book VIII.

Cathlin of Clutha, .

Sulmalla of Lumon,

Cath-Loda, Duan I.

Duan II.

Duan III.

Oina-Morul,

Colna-Dona,

111

139

167

193

223
.265

279
. 293
. 309
323
337
349

.

.

Specimen of the Original of Temora, Book VII. 359

Malvina's Dream,

375

Fragments of Ancient Poetry,

377

The Six Bards, a fragment,

414

Death, a poem,

443

The Hunter, in len cantos,

463

The Highlander, in six cantos,

525

.

.605

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

Page..

On the Death of Marshal Keith,

587

On the Death of a Young Lady, .

590

To the memory of an Officer killed before

Quebec, .

592

The Earl Marischal's welcome to his native

Country,

595

Horace, Ode xvi. bóok 2. imitated,

601

Ode x. book 2. imitated, .

The Choice,

. 607

Written on a Birth-day, .

609

The Monument,

610

Verses sent to a Young Lady, with some trans-

lations from the Earse,

611

The Cave,

613

Fragments from Tyrtæus, :

616

Anacreon, Ode iv. translated,

621

Ode viii...

699

In answer to a letter from Delia,

623

A Night-Piece,

.626

Verses to a Young Lady, :

629

Fragment of a Northern Tale,

631

The same versified,

632

.