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“Not without distinction did he live
Beloved and honoured-far as he was known.
And some small portion of his eloquent speech,
And something that may serve to set in view
The feeling pleasures of his loneliness,
His observations, and the thoughts bis mina
Had dealt with, I will here record

LETA

EDINBURGH ; AND NEW YORK,

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Poems referring to the Period of Childhood.

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“My heart leaps up when I behold"

To a Butterfly

Foresight

Characteristics of a Child three years old

Address to a Child during a boisterous winter evening

The Mother's Return

Lucy Gray

Alice Fell

We are Seven

Anecdote for Father's

Rural Architecture

The Pet Lamb

The Idle Shepherd-boys

To H. C.

Influence of Natural Objects

The Blind Highland Boy

Jubenile Pieces.

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Extract from the conclusion of a Poem, composed upon leaving

School

An Evening Walk

Extracts from Descriptive Sketches

The Female Vagrant

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Poems founded on the Wifections.

The Brothers

The Sparrow's Nest

To a Butterfly

A Farewell

Stanzas written in my pocket copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indo-

lence,"

Ellen Irwin

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* Strange fits of passion I have known

" She dwelt among the untrodden ways"

“I travelled among unknown men"

Louisa

“ 'Tis said that some have died for love"

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman

The Last of the Flock

A Complaint

Ruth

The Cottager to her Infant

The Sailor's Mother

The Childless Father

The Affliction of Margaret of

"Once in a lonely hamlet I sojourned"

“Her eyes are wild, her head is bare"

The Idiot Boy

Michael

Laodamia

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Poems of the fancy.

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To the Daisy

“A whirl-blast from behind the hill"

“With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the sky"

The Green Linnet

To the Small Celandine

To the same Flower

The Waterfall and the Eglantine

The Oak and the Broom

The Redbreast and the Butterfly

To the Daisy

To the same Flower

To a Skylark

To a Sexton

“Who fancied what a pretty sight

Song for the Wandering Jew

The Seven Sisters

“By their floating mill"

The Kitten and the Falling Leaves

A Fragment

Address to my Infant Daughter

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Poems of the Imagination.

“There was a boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs"

To the Cuckoo

A Night-piece

Yew-trees

View from the top of Black Comb

Nutting