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CONTENTS.

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• A Winter's Day1
• A Summer's Day17
• Night Scenes of other Times31
• Address to the Muses53
• A Melancholy Lover's Farewell to his Mistress62
• A Cheerful-tempered Lover's Farewell to his Mistress65
• A Proud Lover's Farewell to his Mistress68
• A Poetical or Sound-hearted Lover's Farewell to his Mistress71
• A Reverie74
• A Disappointment79
• A Lamentation84
• A Mother to her Waking Infant 89
• A Child to his Sick Grandfather92
• Thunder95
• The Horse and his Rider100
• Fragment of a Poem102

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• MISCELLANEOUS POETRY:—
• Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott 120
• Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry Hill 128
• The Banished Man 131
• To a Child 135
• Song, (to the Scotch Air of "My Nanny O.") 138
• London 140
• Lines on the Death of William Sotheby, Esq. 143
• Verses to our own Flowery Kirtled Spring 147
• Lines to a Parrot 153
• Lines to a Teapot 161
• The Moody Seer. A Ballad 168
• The Merry Bachelor 184
• Two Songs 187
• Song, written for the Strawberry Hill Foundling Play 189
• To Sophia J. Baillie, an Infant 191
• Verses added to the foregoing, by the Baby's Paternal Grandmother 193
• The Kitten 194
• School Rhymes for Negro Children 201
• Rhymes 203
• Rhymes for Chanting 204
• Devotional Song for a Negro Child 205
• Second Devotional Song 206
• Third Devotional Song 207
• A Nursery Lesson (Devotional) 208
• Second Nursery Lesson (Admonitory) 209
• Hymn 211
• Two Brothers 215
• Lines to Agnes Baillie on her Birthday 219
• Verses sent to Mrs. Baillie on her Birthday, 1813 226

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• MISCELLANEOUS POETRY—Continued:—
• Verses written in February, 1827 230
• The Traveller by Night in November 233
• Lines for a Friend's Album 246
• Address to a Steam Vessel 248
• The Elden Tree. A Ballad 255
• Song. Woo'd and Married and a' 267
• A Song 271
• Fy, let us a' to the Wedding 275
• Hooly and Fairly 281
• Lord John of the East. A Ballad 284
• Malcolm's Heir. A Tale of Wonder 294
• Song, called the Country Lady's Reveillie 309
• Volunteer's Song, written in 1803 311
• Song, written for an Irish Air 314
• Song, for an Irish Air 316
• A Scotch Song 318
• Song, Poverty parts Good Company 321
• Song, for a Scotch Air 324
• A Sailor's Song 326
• Song, A New Version of an Old Scotch Song 328
• Sir Maurice. A Ballad 331
• To Mrs. Siddons 350
• A Song, written for an Irish Melody 354
• Song, for an Irish Melody 356
• Song 358
• Song 360
• The Black Cock 362
• Song 364
• Song 365
• Song, written for a Welch Melody 367
• Song 369

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• VERSES ON SACRED SUBJECTS:—
• Hymn 373
• Hymn 375
• Hymn 378
• Hymn 381
• Hymn 383
• Hymn for the Scotch Kirk 386
• A Second Hymn for the Kirk 387
• A Third Hymn for the Kirk 388
• St. Matthew, v. 9 390
• St. Luke, xviii. 16 392
• St. John, xxi. 1 394
• St. Luke, vii. 12 396
• Job, xiii. 15 398
• Hymn 400
• A Hymn for the Kirk 402
• A Hymn 404
• Select Verses from the 147th Psalm 406
• Thoughts taken from the 93rd Psalm 407