THE WREATHS COLLECTION OF POEMS, FROM CELEBRATED ENGLISH AUTHORS. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY W. B. GILLEY AND H. I. MEGAREY. J. Seymour, printer. "Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb." THE MINSTREL.-Beattie, Page 13 55 "Whilst some affect the sun, and some the shade." ELEGY, On the Death of Lady Coventry.-Mason, 80 "The mid-night clock has toll'd-and, hark, the bell." HYMN, from Psalm 148.-Ogilvie, 85 89 "Begin, my soul, the exalted lay." THE FIRE-SIDE.-Cotton, "Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd." DEATH.-Dr. Porteus, "Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes." "When Music, heavenly maid, was young.' THE PASSIONS.-Collins, "Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care."! ON SLAVERY.-Cowper, 112 "But, ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer." HYMN ON SOLITUDE.-Thompson, 114 "Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude." HYMN TO DARKNESS.-Yalden, 116 "Darkness, thou first great parent of us all." Page ELEGY, written in a CountryChurch-yard. Gray, 127 "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day." ODE TO LEVEN WATER.-Smollet, "On Leven's Banks, while free to rove." 133 BEAM OF TRANQUILLITY.-Moore, "A beam of tranquillity smil'd in the West." A CANADIAN BOAT SONG.-Moore, 136 137 "Faintly as tolls the evening chime." MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN.-Burns, "When chill November's surly blast." O'CONNOR'S CHILD, or the Flower of love lies bleeding.-Campbell, "Oh! once the Harp of Innisfail." THE SOLDIER'S DREAM,-Campbell. "Our bugles sang truce-for the night cloud had low'r'd." THE DYING NEGRO.-Day, 141 151 153 173 "Arm'd with thy sad last gift-the power to die." HYMN ON THE SEASONS.-Thomson, "These, as they change, Almighty Father!" THE HERMIT.-Parnell, "Far in a wild, unknown to public view." THE TRAVELLER, or a Prospect of Society.— "Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow." "At the close of the day when the hamlet is still." "Hail to the chief who in triumph advances." THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.-Thomson, "O mortal man, who livest here by toil." |