This Is A New Release Of The Original 1890 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

IN compiling these pages use has been made of a number of valuable, if partial, collections, such as Leydens Scottish Descn9tive Poems, Chamberss Songs of Scotland prior to Bums, Patersons Ayrshire Contempornries of Barns, Walkers Bards of Bon-Accord, and Harpers Bards of Galloway, to say nothing of the collections of the eighteenth century itself-Ramsays Evergreen and lea-Table MsceZZany, Herds CoZZecton, and Johnsons Scots Masical Museunz, c. Independent biographies, contemporary records, and original publications by the poets themselves have, however, in most cases been available. In order to furnish, what has not existed hitherto, a comprehensive anthology of the eighteenth century poetry of Scotland, and to render the bead-roll of the poets as complete as possible, it has been found necessary to extend the work to two volumes, CONTENTS. PAGE SCOTTISH POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTHC ENTURY, I LORD YESTER, . 9 Tweedside, . 9 LADY GRIZEL BAILLIE, . I I Werena my heart licht I wad dee, . 12 The Ewe-buchtins bonnie, . P 1 4 WILLIAMH AMILTON O F GILBERTFIELD ., 30 he Last Dying Words of Bonnie Heck, . 31 SIR JOHN CLERK, . 35 0 Merry may the Maid be, 35 ALLAN RAMSAY, 9, 38 Elegy on Maggie Johnston, . 4 1 Paties Song, . 46 Peggy and Jenny The Gentle Shejheyd, Sc. l., 48 Epistle to William Hamilton of Gilbertfield, . 57 X CONTENTS. ALLAN RAMSAY-COH PZU. PAGE Lochaber no More, . 62 The Young Laird and Edinburgh Katie, . 63 Up in the Air, . 65 The Widow, 67 OBER CRAWFOKD ., 68 Tweedside, . 69 The Bush Abune Traquair, . 7 1 Doun the Burn, Ilavie, . 73 OBEKI BLAIK, . 75 The Grave, . 76 THE AUTHOK OF ALBANIA, . 82 Albania, . 82 ALEXANDElKio ss, . 87 i Vooed ancl Married and A, . 88 dLVooed and Marriedand A, . 92 The Rock and the Wee Pickle Tow, . 94, . JA IETSH OMSON, . 98 Winter, . 101, The Castle of Indolence, . . 113 DAVIL M ALLET, . 116 I - - William and Margaret, . 118 Rule Britannia, . . 121 The Birks of Invermay, . . 123 WILLIAMH AMILTON O F BANGOUR ., . 124 V Song, . . 126 cThe Braes of Yarrow, . . 127 ALEXANDEWR EBSTEK, . 0, How Could I Venture, . .. GEOKGE HALKET, . Logie 0 Buchan, . ALISON KUIHEK ORL, Lines to Mr. Walter Scot, . YThe Flowers of the Forest, . JOHN WILSON, . Clyde, . SIR GILBEKT E LLIOT, Rly Sheep I Neglected, . TOHIAS SMOLLETT, . fk The Tears of Scotland, Ode to Leven Water, . ALIAM S KIKVING, . Johnnie Cope, . WILLIAM ILKIE, . The Death of Hercules, . THOMA B S L ACKLOCK, On Euanthes Absence, . Happy Marriage, . JOHN SKINNER ., yTullochgorun, . The Ewie wi the Crookit Horn, xii CONTENTS. PAGE JEAN ELLIOT, . . 204 X The Flowers o the Forest, . . 205 JOHN LAPRAIK ., . . . . 207 When I upon thy Bosom lean, - . 208 WILLIAM F ALCONER ., . 209 The Smiling Plains, . . 210 The Shipwreck, . . 211 WILLIAM JU LIUS MICKLE, . 224 The Sailors Wife, . . 226 l Cumnor Hall, . . 229 SCOTTISH POETRY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. IT has-been the fashion since the time of Scott and Byron and Wordsworth to look with something of disdain upon the English poetry of the days of Queen Anne and the early Georges. Nor is this disdain altogether without good reason...

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.