EDINBURGH:
Printed for the Author; and fold by J. DUNCAN,
Glasgow; J. ELDER, Horfe Wynd, T. and J.
RUDDIMAN, South Bridge, and by

the Author, Printing-office,

Caftle-hill, Edinburgh.

M ̧DCC.LXXXVIII

17 AUG 1928

PARY

CONTENTS.

POEMS on VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

Epifle Dedicatory.-To the Rev. Dr. B********

Thoughts on Man.-In Three Cantos

Canto I.

Canto II.

Canto III.

Confcience-A Poem

Page

I

3

ib.

7

IE

15

21

The Happy Shepherd

October; or, The Fall of the Leaf-To a Lady

A Morning Soliloquy, in Spring

To a young Clergyman, with a pair of Pocket

Bibles. By a Lady

Occafioned by a young Lady's attending a Course

of Philofophical Lectures

To a Friend in the Country.-An Epiftle

The Joys of Elyfium.-From the xixth Book of

Telemachus

24

27

32

37

39

45

51

The Separation,-a Poem, occafioned by the much-

lamented death of a very respectable Character

a 2

A Paftoral, on the death of a young Gentleman

Ode, to the Memory of Sir James Hunter-Blair,

Bart.

Extempore. To a Lady

A Reflection

Epitaph, to the Memory of a very near Relation

Ifaiah xxvi, 1, 2, 3, 4, paraphrafed

Page

57

62%

66

67-

70

72

Pfalm viii. imitated

For the New Year, 1788

On the fame fubject.-An Acroftic.

A Reflection.-On Autumn.

To a Friend, on his Marriage in Winter

Impromptu.-To Atheists

-

On the General Thanksgiving, July 29, 1784

Ode to Printing

On feeing the Miniature Profile of the late Rev.

Dr. Alexander Webster

To Mr. ******, on his arriving in Edinburgh,

Aug. 4, 1787

A Speech from the Tragedy of Macbeth altered.

Prologue to Macbeth, acted in private

On Friendship-To the amiable Mifs

Amanda's Complaint, a Paftoral: occafioned by a

young Gentleman in the Army going abroad

Extempore-On a young Lady leaving Town

Monf. à fon Lit

Translation

74

76

80

82

85

899

99

92

96,

97

99*

ΙΟΙ

103

107

109

110

ib.

SCOTS

165

The Kirk of St. Roque.-A Poem

The Author to his Flute

On the Warlike Preparations of 1787

On the Expulfion of the Scots Language

To Mr. R***** B****, Ayrshire

169

181

185

190

195

SONG S..

Monefia-A Song

To the Memory of the amiable Mifs

Page

203

206

Tune-Mufette, in the Amorous Goddess

The Wish.-Scene, Braid's Hill, near Edinburgh 208

Damon and Sylvia

210

Song