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THE

WREATH;

A

COLLECTION OF POEMS,

FROM

CELEBRATED ENGLISH AUTHORS.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY W. B. GILLEY AND H. I. MEGAREY.

J. Seymour, printer.

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CONTENTS.

"Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb."

THE MINSTREL.-Beattie,

THE GRAVE.-Blair,

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"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, bark, the bell."

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THE PASSIONS.-Collins,

DESPONDENCY.-Burns,

"Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes."

"When Music, heavenly maid, was young."

"Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care."

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ON SLAVERY.-Cowper,

112

"But, ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer."

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"Darkness, thou first great parent of us all."

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ELEGY, written in a CountryChurch-yard. Gray, 127 "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

ODE TO LEVEN WATER.-Smollet,

133

"On Leven's Banks, while free to rove."

BEAM OF TRANQUILLITY.-Moore,

134

"A beam of tranquillity smil'd in the West."

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"Our bugles sang truce for the night cloud had low'r'd."

THE DYING NEGRO.-Day,

153

"Arm'd with thy sad last gift-the power to die."

HYMN ON THE SEASONS.-Thomson,

169

"These, as they change, Almighty Father!"

THE HERMIT.-Parnell,

173

"Far in a wild, unknown to public view." THE TRA VELLER, or a Prospect of Society.

Goldsmith,

181

"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow."

THE HERMIT.-Beattie,

196

"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still."

BOAT SONG.-Scott,

199

"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances."

THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.-Thomson, "O mortal man, who livest here by toil."

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