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POETICAL WORKS
OF
SIR WALTER SCOTT, BART.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
WITH ALL HIS INTRODUCTIONS AND NOTES
ALSO,
VARIOUS READINGS, AND THE EDITOR'S NOTES.
ELEGANTLY ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY.
185 8.
CONTENTS.
THE PIECES MARKED WITH AN asterisk (*) HAVE NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN ANY FORMER EDITION
OF SIR WALTER SCOTT'S POETICAL WORKS.
PAGT
Canto IV.......
PAGE
The LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL
9 THE LADY OF THE LAKE.
Advertisement to edition 1833.
ib. Canto VI.-The Guard-Room ..... 229
Introduction to edition 1830.
ib. Appendix to the Lady of the Lake.......... 240
Dedication
16
Preface to the first edition 1805
ib. THE VISION OF Dox RODERICK..
269
Introduction
ib. Preface ....
ib.
Canto I.....
17 Dedication......
270
Canto II...
23 Introduction
Canto III.
28 The Vision
272
Canto IV.
33 Conclusion....
281
Canto V...
40 Appendix to Vision of Don Roderick ....... 285
Canto VI.
46
Appendix to the Lay of the Last Minstrel. 54 ROKEBY ...
292
Notice to edition 1833....
MARVION ....
80 Introduction to edition 1830
Notice to edition 1833...
ib. Dedication ...
296
ib. Advertisement.
83 Canto I........
Advertisement to the first edition
ib. Canto II...
306
Introduction to Canto I.—To William
Canto III..
314
Stewart Rose, Esq.
323
Canto I.— The Castle
87 Canto V..
332
Introduction to Canto II.-To the Rev.
343
John Marriott, A. M. .
94 Appendix to Rokeby
856
Canto II.—The Convent...
97 Introduction to Canto III.—To William THE BRIDAL OF TRIERMAIN
379
Erskine, Esq. ....
104 Proface to the first edition.......
Canto III.—The Hostel, or Inn
Introduction ......
382
Introduction to Canto IV.-To James
383
Skene, Esq........
113
Canto II..
388
Canto IV.—The Camp
116 Canto III..
396
Introduction to Canto V.-To George
Conclusion..
407
Ellis, Esq....
124 Appendix to the Bridal of Triermain....... 410
Canto V.-The Court
126
Introduction to Canto VI.-To Richard THE LORD OF THE ISLES.
412
Heber, Esq.
137 Notice to edition 1833.
Canto VI.-The Battle..
140 Introduction to edition 1830.....
Appendix to Marmion........
154 Advertisement to the first edition
414
Canto I......
415
THE LADY OF THE LAKE....
180 Canto II......
422
ib. Canto III.
430
Dedication. 183
435 Argument.. ib.
446
Canto 1-The Chase.
184
455
Canto II.-The Island
193 Conclusion..
466
Canto III.—The Gathering
202 Appendix to the Lord of the Isles........... 469
Fac-Simile of the MS., Stanza I ............. ib.
(Placed after the Contenta.)
THE FIELD OF WATERLOO
502
Canto IV.—The Prophecy
.................. 210
Conclusion.........
609
Canto V.-Tbe Combat 219 Appendix
611
........ 107
Canto IV........
Canto V...........
Canto VI. ....
............................
4.388.10
PAOI
CONTRABUTIONS TO THE BORDER MINSTRELSY.
Introductory Remarks on Popular Poetry. 537
Appendix .........
553
Essay on Imitations of the Ancient Ballad 555
Appendix...............
571
Imitations of the Ancient Ballad.
Thomas the Rhymer, Part I. ............... 574
Part II..
577
Part III.
584
Appendix..........
586
Glenfinlas; or, Lord Ronald's Coronach... 589
Appendix.....
593
The Eve of St. John......
594
Appendix .....
597
Cadyow Castle.........
598
602
The Gray Brother.....
604
Appendix.......
606
War-Song of the Royal Edinburgh Light
Dragoons.......
.... 607
LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
The Dying Bard
634
The Norman Horse-Shoe
The Maid of Toro..........
635
The Palmer
The Maid of Neid path...
638 Wandering Willie
* Health to Lord Melville, 1806.. .... 637
Hunting Song
638
The Resolve.....
639
Epitaph, designed for a Monument in
Lichfield Cathedral, at the Burial-place
of the family of Miss Seward............ ib.
Prologue to Miss Baillie's Play of the
Family Legend........
The Poacher......
640
Song—“Oh, say not, my love, with that
mortified air”
649
The Bold Dragoon; or, the Plain of
Badajos .....
On the Massacre of Glencoe.
“For a' that an'a' that."- A new song to
an old tune....
644
Song, for the Anniversary Meeting of the
Pitt Club of Scotland ...
Pharos Loquitur
645
Lines, addressed to Ranald Macdonald,
Esq., of Staffa...
ib
* Letter in Verse, on the Voyage with the
Commissioners of Northern Lights.--
To his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch,
1814. .......
...............
BALLADS TRANSLATED OR IMITATED FROM THE GERMAN, &c. .......
609 William and Helen.........
ib. The Wild Huntsman
613 The Fire-King
616 Frederick and Alice......
618 The Battle of Sempach.
619 The Noble Moringer.....
621
* The Erl-King
C26
VERSES FROM WAVERLEY.
* Bridal Song
647
* Waverley......
648
* Davie Gellatley's Song...
* Scene in Luckie Macleary's Tavern.... 649
* Hie away, Hie away.
* St. Swithin's Chair
* Davie Gellatley's Song.
650
* Janet Gellatley's alleged Witchcraft... ib.
* Flora Macivor's Song ....
* Lines on Captain Wogan
651
* Follow me, Follow me
652
LYRICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PIECES,
In the order of their composition or publi-
cation.......
627
* Juvenile Lines. From Virgil. 1782.... ib.
* On a Thunder Storm ....
* On the Setting Sun.....
The Violet
To a Lady, with Flowers from a Roman
Wall
628
* Bothwell Castle.....
* The Shepherd's Tale..
* Cheviot ........
* The Reiver's Wedding
The Bard's Incantation...
632
Hellvellyn
633
* The Author of Waverley.
Farewell to Mackenzie, High Chief of
Kintail-From the Gaelic
Imitation of the preceding Sung
653
War-Song of Lachlan, High Chief of Mac-
lean.-From the Gaelic...
Saint Cloud
654
The Dance of Death
Romar ce of Dunois
656
The roubadour .............
From the French......
657
631
20.
.......
From Rob Roy.
* To the Memory of Edward the Black
Prince.
673
+ Translation from Ariosto.................. 674
* Mottoes, 1-5........
FROM THE PIRATE.
* The Song of the Tempest..
* Claud Halcro's Song
* Harold Harfager's Song
...... 694
695
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