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CONTENTS.
...........3
PREFACE..........
A Sketch of the Life of the Author......
ENGLISH POEMS.
Ode to Hope ....
.........77
The Rivers of Scotland....
....80
Ode to Pity.................
.88
Ode to Horror..........
.......90
Ode to Disappointment.....
.......92
Songs. .....
...........94, 95, 96
Morning, a Pastoral
......97
Noon, a Pastoral......
..101
Night, a Pastoral......
.......105
The Simile.......
.......109
The Complaint....
......110
Retirement......
.......113
On the Cold Month of April, 1771 ......
..116
Verses written at the Hermitage of Braid ..... ....119
DAMON to his Friends......
...120
Conscience.........
....124
Against Repining at Fortune............
126
The Decay of Friendship
...128
To the Memory of John CUNINGHAM, Poet...............132
The Delights of Virtue........
136
Dirge...
.....139
On Night........
....... 140
A Tale ..........
........141
Extempore, on being asked which of three Sisters was
the most beautiful.......
......143
The Town and Country contrasted...........................144
A Saturday's Expedition ............
......147
The Amputation, a Burlesque Elegy.
......154
The Canongate Playhouse in Ruins ....
.156
The Peasant, the Hen, and Young Ducks................161
Fashion
On the Death of Mr Thomas LANCASHIRE, Comedian...167
On seeing a Lady paint herself......
.........ib.
Extempore, on seeing Stanzas addressed to Mrs HARTLEY.. 169
A Tavern Elegy..................
........169
Good Eating
.171
Tea .......
..........177
The Sow of Feeling.................
1.181
The Bugs ....
......185
An Expedition to Fife and the Island of May ............. 192
To Sir John FIELDING, on his attempt to suppress
the
Beggar's Opera........
.198
Character of a Friend ......
......202
To Dr SAMUEL JOHNSON.
..203
..163
Epigram, on seeing Scales used in a Mason Lodge ....... 206
Epitaph on General WOLFE.......
.........207
Epigram on the numerous Epitaphs for General WOLFE..ib.
Horace, Ode XI. Lib. I.........
.......208
Epigram on a Lawyer's desiring one of the Tribe to
look with respect to a Gibbet...........
209
Epigram, written Extempore, at the desire of a Gen-
tleman who was rather ill-favoured ........... .......ib.
Epilogue, spoken by Mr Wilson, in the character of
an Edinburgh Buck ......
.......210
The Author's Life..........
.......213
On the Author's intention of going to Sea .... .......214
My Last Will ........
.....ib.
Codicil to R. FERGUSSON'S Last Will...
218
SCOTS POEMS.
An Eclogue.........
............222
An Eclogue to the Memory of Dr WILKIE ............... 228
Elegy on the Death of Mr David GREGORY.
.232
The Daft Days........
........234
The King's Birth-day in Edinburgh.....
.......238
Caller Oysters.......
....... 243
Braid Claith
........247
Elegy on the Death of Scots Music.....
......250
Hallow-Fair..........
.253
Ode to the Bee ......
.......258
On seeing a Butterfly in the Street.........
....261
Ode to the Gowdspink
...1264
Cauler Water ............
....267
The Sitting of the Session
....271
The Rising of the Session ...
....274
Leith Races
.............. 278
The Farmer's Ingle .........
........285
The Election...............
...........291
To the Tron-Kirk Bell.......
...297
Mutual Complaint of Plainstanes and Causey................300
A Drink Eclogue.........
............306
Lines, to the Principal and Professors of the University
of St Andrews, on their superb Treat to Dr Johnson...312
Elegy on John HOGG............
.........317
The Ghaists, a Kirk-Yard Eclogue
.............322
Epistle to Mr ROBERT FERGUSSON, by J. S................328
Answer to Mr J. S.'s Epistle ....
.............332
To my Auld Breeks..........
........336
Auld Reikie.................
...........339
Hame Content, a Satire......
..........................................................354
The Vanity of Human Wishes, an Elegy..
Lines, addressed to Mr R. FERGUSSON on his Recovery..362
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.........................359