CONTENTS.

Rule Britannia

The Dog and the Water Lily

The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant

The Nightingale and Glow-worm

On a Goldfinch starved to death in his Cage

The Poplar Field

The Rose.

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during

his solitary abode on a Desert Island.

The Pine-apple and the Bee

On the receipt of my Mother's Picture

The Winter Morning Walk.

The Winter Walk at Noon.

The Deserted Village

The Blind Boy

The Hermit.

Auld Robin Gray

I dreamt I lay

My Heart's in the Highlands ·

The Lazy Mist .

Musing on the Roaring Ocean

To Mary in Heaven

The Author's Farewell to his Native Country

Winter.

Bonnie Bell

Contentment

Peace

The Minstrel

God provideth for the Morrow

Song

The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna, 1809.

It is not the Tear

The Last Rose of Summer

Oft in the Stilly Night

Those Evening Bells

Peace be around thee.

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The Beech-tree's Petition

Lines written on visiting a Scene in Argyleshire

The Rainy Day

The Village Blacksmith

A Psalm of Life.

The Reaper and the Flowers

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Address to a Child during a Boisterous Winter Evening.

She was a Phantom of Delight

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INDEX OF WRITERS.

Allingham, William, p. 262.

Anonymous, pp. 59 (Ancient Songs), 233 (Lyra Innocentiam), 315;

156, 201, 212 (Female Friend of Wordsworth).

Beattie, James, p. 62.

Bright, J. H. p. 255.

Burns, Robert, pp. 50, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 58.

Campbell, Thomas, pp. 82, 84, 86, 88, 90, 92, 93.

Cibber, Colley, p. 36.

Coleridge, Hartley, p. 64.

Cowper, William, pp. 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 23.

Cunningham, Allan, p. 259.

Doane, G. W. p. 256.

Gifford, Lady, p. 229.

Goldsmith, Oliver, p. 26.

Goodrich, S. G. p. 248.

Gould, Hannah, pp. 240, 242, 244.

Heber, Reginald, p. 63.

Hemans, Felicia, pp. 135, 137, 138, 140, 142, 144, 145, 147, 149.

Hervey, James, p. 133.

Hood, Thomas, p. 264.

Houghton, Lord, p. 236.

Kingsley, Charles, pp. 226, 228.

Lindsay, Lady Anne, p. 47.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, pp. 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 104, 107,

109, 111, 113, 115, 119, 121, 123, 124, 125, 127, 128.

Lover, Samuel, p. 258.

Mackay, Charles, pp. 150, 151, 153.

Mickle, William Julius, p. 260.