TO THE

KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY,

THIS

COMPLETE EDITION

OF

THE WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON,

'VOL. I.

WHO WAS

PARTICULARLY HONOURED

WITH THE FAVOUR AND PATRONAGE OF

HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL PARENTS;

AND

WHOSE STRAINS HAVE BEEN AUSPICIOUSLY PROPHETIC OF THE 'PRESENT GLORIOUS REIGN;

b

PATRICK MURDOCH.

FIRST VOLUME.

SPRING

SUMMER

AUTUMN

WINTER

A HYMN

The CASTLE OF INDOLENCE; an Allegorical Poem,

in Two Cantos:

The First

The Second

CONTENTS

OF THE

A POEM sacred to the Memory of Sir ISAAC NEWTON

A POEM to the Memory of the Right Honourable the

Lord TALBOT, late Chancellor of Great Britain

VERSES Occasioned by the Death of Mr. AIKMAN, a

particular Friend of the Author's

ODE

EPITAPH on Miss STANLEY

To the Rev. Mr. MURDOCH, Rector of Straddishal

in Suffolk

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❤

A PARAPHRASE on the latter Part of the Sixth

Chapter of St. Matthew

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SONG. One Day the God of fond Desire

SONG. Hard is the Fate of him who loves

AMANDA blest

my

SONG. Unless with

SONG. For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove

SONG. Come, gentle God of soft Desire

ODE. O Nightingale, best Poet of the Grove

ODE. To Seraphina

ODE. On Eolus's Harp

HYMN on SOLITUDE

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