Fage Tage Verses lest at a Friend's House A Prayer under the Pressure of violent Anguish 214 XI. Foreign Travel 259 The first six Verses of the ninetieth Psalın To a Mountain Daisy, on turning one down with the TO Aliss L-, with Beactie's Poems as a New-year's Il The Bag of Gold 273 Episile to a Young Friend. May, 1780. On a Scotch Bard gone to the West Indies A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton, Esq. To a Luse. On seeing one on a Lady's Bonnet at XVII. The Feluca 277 Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scottish Bard. April Verses written to be spoken by Mrs. Siddons 251 To the same. ápril 21st, 1785. Eistle 19 J. R******, enclosing some Poems 2:23 Calitivity: S10:- To an old Oak My Wile's a winsome wee thing 223 283 226 To the Fragment of a Statue of Hercules, commonly 2.27 To a Friend on his Marriage 2.5 Titaliin of an Italian Sonnet Jussie 2:39 A Character 2! An Epitaph on a Robin-redbreast To the Gnat Bannockburn. Robert Bruce's Address to his Army2029 Written at Minight, 1786. Scollish Ballad 234 An Inscription 20 Written in the Highlands of Scotland, September 2, 231 inscritin for a Temple. Dedicated io the Graces' 21 Written in Westminster Abbey, October io, 1506. Sn: 232 212 The Birth of Jesus announced 213 Behold my Mother and my Brethren 211 Bartimeus restored to Sight 211 Little Children brought to Jesus 2-15 Jesus walks on the Sea, and calms the Storm 301 213 Jesus appears to the Disciples 219 Paul accused before the Tribunal orihe Areopagus 302 230 Paul accused before the Roman Governor of Judea 251 Paraphrase.-Psalm ciii. 3, 4. 232 on Visiting Melruse, after an Absence of 'sixteen 235 The Wild Duck and her Brood 255 To a Redbreast that flew in at my Window 256 Epitaph on a Blackbird killed by a Hawk 258 The Thanksgiving off Cape Trafalgar SIII. The Campagna of Florence Taly.- Part II 261 . Sonnet. Written at Malvern, July 11, 1793 519 332 Sonnet. On reviewing the foregoing, Septem- 11. 311 360 1. Poems occasioned by Political Events, or Feel- 370 Ode to the departing Year. 387 Fears in Solitude. Written in April, 1798, dur- 390 Fire, Famine, and Slaughter. A War Eclogue 392 Recantation, illustrated in the Story of the Nad A Srember Night's Traveller 391 526 399 Introduction to the Tale of the Dark Ladie 528 399 Lewti, or the Circassian Love-chant. 400 The Picture, or the Lover's Resolution 400 The Night-scene. A Dramatic Fragment To an unfortunate Woman, whom the Author 5:22 To an unfortunate Wonian at the Theatre 532 Lines composed in a Concert-room 402 To a Lady. With Falconer's “Shipwreck” 533 403 Home-sick. Wriuen in Germany 408 Answer to a Child's Question 411 To a Young Lady. On her Recovery from a The Visionary Hope 531 in Germany 535 Recollections of Love 535 417 The Happy Husband. A Fragment 425 On revisiting the Sea shore, after long Absence, under sirung medical recommendations not to Il The Churchyard among the Mountains 439 III. Meditative Piems. In Wank verse: TII. The Churchyard among the Mountains, Hymn before Sunrise, in the Vale of Chamouny 536 Lines written in the Album at Elbingerude, in LX. Discourse of ihe Wanderer, and an Even- On of serving a Blossom on the first of February, 438 The Evlian Harp. Coinposed at Cievedon, So- Rifle unions on having left à Placnis Retiremeni 535 To the Rev. George Coliriilge or (itery St. Mary, A toubless Epitaph 539 Inscripcion for a fountain on a Heath 492 This Lime-tree Bower my Prison 493 To a Gentleman. Composed on the Night after his Recitation of a Poem on the Growth of an 513 To a Friend, who had declared his Intention of 506 The Nightingale: a Conversation Poem. Writ. Written chiefly during various Journeys. To a Friend, together with an unfinished Poem 511 The Hour when we shall meet again. Composed Sunnet. Written at Tynemouth, Northumber- lauri, after a tempestuous Voyage 51+ IV. Ods and Miscellaneous Poems :- 511 The Three Graves. A Fragment of a Sexton's . On leaving a Village in Scotland Online Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire, on Svage. To the River Itchin, near Winton 513 the twenty-fourth Stanza in her “ Passage over Smnet. Ai Dover Cliffs, July 20, 1787 Sinet. Al Ostend, landing, July 21, 1787 . 516 To a Young Friend, on his proposing to domesti: 316 cate with the Author. Composed in 1796 531 516 Lines to W. L. Esq., while he sang a Sung to 516 Allressed in a Young Man of Fortune, who abandoned himself to an indolent and cuuse. Sonpet. On a distant View of England Sonnet. To the River Cherwell, Oxford 517 Sonuet to the River Outer Sinnet. Composed on a Journey homeward; 517 The Author having received Intelligence of the Birth of a Sun, September 20, 1796 517 Sonnel. To a Friend, who asked how I feli 518 when the Nurse first presented my Infant The Virgin's Cradle Hymn. Copied from the 518 Print of the Virgin in a Catholic Village in 518 On the Christening of a Friend's Child Pari L Sinnet 515 Sunnet . . • 615 Tell's Birthplace. Imitated from Stolberg . 554 The Falling Leaf 591 592 531 For the first Leaf of a Lady's Album The Visit of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller 551 The first Leaf or an Album 593 Kubla Khan; or, a Vision in a Dream 555 Time employed, Time enjoyed. Addressed to a 556 Young Lady from whom the Author had re- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ceived an elegantly wrought Watch-pocket 594 556 A Voyage round the World . 537 539 561 The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Enigrams. 570) 620 570 Marmion. A Tale of Flodden Fieia. Ode to the Volunieers of Britain, on ihe Prospect of The Ocean. Written ai Scarborough, in the Sumo The Battle of Sempach 7:23 586 War Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light Dragoons 725 The Harp of Sorrow . 556 Mac Gregor's Gathering. Wrillen für Albyn's An- The Swiss Cowheril's Song in a foreign Land. Imi: Mackrimmon's Lament tated from the French 597 Pibroch of Donald Dhu. Written for Albyn's An. 7027 The Oak. Imitated from the Italian of Metastasio 599 Hellvellyn 59 The Barl's incantation. Written upiler ihe Threat 5.99 of Invasion, in the Autumn of 1804 590 Romance of Dunois. From the French. The Ages or Man 591 Carle, now the King's come. Being 'new Words is WILLIAM FALCONER. Willian FALCONER was a native of Edinburgh, | Aurora was never heard of after she passed the and went to sea ai an early age in a merchant Cape, and was thought to have foundered in the tessel of Leith. He was afterwards mate of a Channel of Mozambique ; so that the poet of the ship that was wrecked in the Levant, and was one Shipwreck may be supposed to have perished by thu of only three out of her crew that were saved, a same species of calamity which he had rehearsed. Catastrophe which formed the subject of his future The subject of the Shipwreck, and the fate of poem. He was for some time in the capacity of a its author, bespeak an uncommon partiality in its servant to Campbell, the author of Lexiphanes, favour. If we pay respect to the ingenious scholar when purser of a ship. Campbell is said to have who can produce agreeable verses amidst the discovered in Falconer talents worthy of culiiva- shades of retirement, or the shelves of his library, tion, and when the latter distinguished himself as how much more interest must we take in the “shipa met, used to boast that he had been his scholar. boy on the high and giddy mast” cherishing refined What he learned from Campbell it is not very easy visions of fancy at the hour which he may casually to ascertain. His education, as he often assured snatch from fatigue and danger. Nor did Falconer Governor Hunter, had been confined to reading, neglect the proper aequirements of seamanship in writing, and a little arithmetic, though in the course cultivating poetry, but evinced considerable knowof his lite he picked up some acquaintance with ledge of his profession, both in his Marine Dictionthe French, Spanish, and Italian languages. In ary and in the nautical procepts of the Shipwreck. these his country man was not likely to have much In that poem he may be said to have added a conassisted him; but he might have lent him books, genial and peculiarly British subject 10 the lanand possibly instructed him in the use of figures. guage ; at least, we had no previous poem of any Falconer published his Shipwreck, in 1762, and by length of which the characters and catastrophe the farour of the Duke of York, to whom it was de were purely naval. dicated, obtained the appointment of a midshipman The scene of the catastrophe (though he followed in the Royal George, and afterwards that of purser only the fact of his own history) was poetically in the Glory frigate. He soon afterwards married laid amidst seas and shores where the mind easily a Miss Hicks, an accomplished and beautiful wo- gathers romantic associations, and where it supman, the daughter of the surgeon of Sheerness poses the most picturesque vicissitudes of scenery yard. At the peace of 1763, he was on the point and climate. The spectacle of a majestic British of being reduced to distressed circumstances by his ship on the shores of Greece brings as strong a ship being laid up in ordinary at Chatham, when, a reminiscence to the mind, as can well be by the friendship of Commissioner Hanway, who imagined, of the changes which time has wrought ordered the cabin of the Glory to be fitted up for in transplanting the empire of arts and civilization. his residence, he enjoyed for some time a retreat Falconer's characters are few; but the calm sagafor siudy without expense or embarrassment. Here cious commander, and the rough obstinate Rodhe employed himself in compiling his Marine Dic- mond, are well contrasted. Some part of the tonary, which appeared in 1769, and has been love-story of Palemon is rather swainish and proalways highly spoken of by those who are capable tracted, yet the effect of his being involved in the os estimating its merils. He embarked also in the calamity leaves a deeper sympathy in the mind politics of the day, as a poetical antagonist 10 for the daughter of Albert, when we conceive her Churchill, but with little advantage to his memory. at once deprived both of a father and a lover. Before the publication of his Marine Dictionary he The incidents of the Shipwreck, like those of a had left his retreat at Chatham for a less comfort- well-wrought tragedy, gradually deepen, while able abode in the metropolis, and appears to have they yet leave a suspense of hope and fear to the struggled with considerable difficulties, in the midst imagination. In the final scene there is something of which he received proposals from the late Mr. that deeply touches our compassion in the picture Murray, the bookseller, to join him in the business of the unfortunale man who is struck blind by a which he had newly established. The cause of flash of lightning at the helm. I remember, by, bile refusing this offer was, in all probability, the the-way, to have met with an affecting account of appointment which he received to the pursership the identical calamity befalling the steersman of a of the Aurora, East Indiaman. In that ship he forlorn vessel in a similar moment, given in a prose enbarked for India, in September, 1769, but the and veracious history of the loss of a vessel on the coast of America. Falconer skilfully heightens “A flash, quick glancing on the nerves of light, And, while around his sad companions crowd, Thy only succour on the mast relies !" With living colours give my verse to glow, The sad memorial of a tale of wo? A scene from dumb oblivion to restore, To fame unknown, and new to epic lore! Alas; neglected by the sacred Nine, Their suppliant feels no genial ray divine ! Proposal of the subject. Invocation. Apology. Alle. Ah! will they leave Pieria's happy shore, gorical description of memory. Appeal to her assist. To plough the tide where wintry tempests roar ? ance. The story begun. Retrospect of the former part of the voyage. The ship arrives at Candia. Or shall a youth approach their hallow'd fane, Ancient state of that island. Present state of the Stranger to Phæbus, and the tuneful train ?adjacent isles of Greece. The season of the year. Far from the Muses' academic grove, Character of the master and his officers. Story of | 'Twas his the vast and crackless deep to rove Palemon and Anna. Evening described. Midnight. Alternate change of climates has he known, The ship weighs anchor, and departs from the haven. And felt the fierce extremes of either zone; State of the weather. Morning. Situation of the Where polar skies congeal th' eternal snow, neighbouring shores. Operation of taking the sun'e azimuth. Description of the vessel as seen from the Or equinoctial suns for ever glow. land, Smote by the freezing or the scorching blast, A ship-boy on the high and giddy mast,"'* The scene is near the city of Candia ; and the time about four days From regions where Peruvian billows roar, and a half. To the bleak coast of savage Labrador. While jarring interests wake the world io arms, From where Damascus, pride of Asian plains ! And fright the peaceful vale with dire alarms; Stoops her proud neck beneath tyrannic chains, While Ocean hears vindictive thunders roll, To where the isthmus,t laved by adverse tides, Along his trembling wave, from pole to pole; Atlantic and Pacific seas divides. Sick of the scene, where war, with ruthless hand, But, while he measured o'er the painful race, Spreads desolation o'er the bleeding land; In Fortune's wild illimitable chase, Sick of the tumult, where the trumpet's breath Adversity, companion of his way! Bids ruin smile, and drowns the groan of death! Skill o'er the victim hung with iron sway; "Tis mine, retired beneath this cavern hoar, Bade new distresses every instant grow, That stands all lonely on the sea-beat shore, Marking each change of place with change of wo Far other themes of deep distress to sing In regions where th' Almighty's chastening hand Than ever trembled from the vocal string. With livid pestilence afflicts the land ; No pomp of battle swells th' exalted strain, Or where palo famine blasts the hopeful year, Nor gleaming arms ring dreadful on the plain : Parent of want and misery severe ; But, o'er the scene while pale Remembrance weeps, Or where, all dreadful in th' embatiled line, Fate with fell triumph rides upon the deeps, The hostile ships in flaming combat join : Here hostile elements tumultuous rise, Where the torn vessel, wind and wave assail, And lawless floods rebel against the skies ; Till o'er her crew distress and death prevailTill hope expires, and peril and dismay Where'er he wander'd thus vindictive Fate Wave their black ensigns on the watery way. Pursued his weary steps with lasting hate! Immortal train, who guide the maze of song, Roused by her mandate, storms of black array To whom all science, arts, and arms belong; Winter'd the morn of life's advancing day; Who bid the trumpet of eternal fame Relax'd the sinews of the living lyre, Exalt the warrior's and the poet's name! And quench'd the kindling spark of vital fire.-If e'er with trembling hope I fondly stray'd Thus while forgotten or unknown he woos, In life's fair morn beneath your hallow'd shade, What hope to win the coy, reluctant Muse ? To hear the sweetly-mournful lute complain, Then let not Censure, with malignant joy, And melt the heart with ecstasy of pain ; The harvest of his humble hope destroy ! Or listen, while th' enchanting voice of love, His verse no laurel wreath attempts to claim, While all Elysium warbled through the grove ; Nor sculptur'd brass to tell the poet's name. O! by the hollow blast that moans around, Il terms uncouth, and jarring phrases, wound That sweeps the wild harp with a plaintive sound; The softer sense with inharmonious sound. By the long surge that foams through yonder cave, Whose vaults remurmur to the roaring wave; Shakspeare. Darien. |
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