Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1840, by

HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York.

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FROM THE

BRITISH PO E T S.

BY

FITZ.GREENE HALLEC K.

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

JAMES BEATTIE.

The Minstrel ; or the Progress of Genius

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

The Hermit

The Deserted Village

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

On the death of Mr. Robert Levet

The Vanity of Human Wishes

JOHN SCOTT.

Ode on hearing the Drum .

CHARLES CHURCHILL.

Character of a Critical Fribble

WILLIAM FALCONER.

From “the Shipwreck”

JOHN LOGAN.

Ode to the Cuckoo

The Lovers

The Braes of Yarrow

NATHANIEL COTTON.

The Fireside

SIR WILLIAM JONES.

A Persian song of Hafiz

An Ode in imitation of Alcæus

SAMUEL BISHOP.

To his Wife

WILLIAM MASON.

Epitaph on Mrs. Mason

ERASMUS DARWIN.

From the Botanic Garden"

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ANNE LETITIA BARBAULD.

Page

Hymn to Content

72

Ode to Spring

74

WILLIAM COWPER.

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture

75

On the Loss of the Royal George

77

From “the Task"

79

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

86

ROBERT BURNS.

The Cotter's Saturday Night

93

To a Mountain Daisy

99

To J. S****

. 100

Epistle to a young Friend

The Lea-Rig

. 106

Highland Mary

. 107

Song

. 108

Auld Lang Syne

. 109

Bannockburn

. 110

Song

110

The Banks o' Doon

111

Song

112

My Jean

112

HENRY KIRKE WHITE.

To the Herb Rosemary

113

The Dance of the Consumptives

114

The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the Night 117

The Lullaby of a female Convict to her Child the

night previous to Execution

118

Sonnet

119

MRS. COCKBURN.

The Flowers of the Forest

119

JOHN LEYDEN.

Scottish Music

From "Scenes of Infancy”

123

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Columbus

Home

126

The Grave

127

Hannah

131

The Daisy

. 132

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