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Messis Vitae

Gleanings of Song from a Happy Life: By John Stuart Blackie

Blackie, John Stuart (1809-1895)

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I.

I POEMS AND SONGS

THE CHIEF END OF MAN

THE LAY OF THE LITTLE LADY

ONWARD AND UPWARD

THE EMIGRANT LASSIE

MY SCOTCH LASSIE

THE CURSE OF SCOTLAND

RULES FOR A HAPPY LIFE

SONG OF A GOOD ECLECTIC

THERE IS NONE FREE BUT JOVE

CREEDS AND CANARIES

THE PRAYER OF SOCRATES

PORTRAIT OF A LADY

LOVE AND KNOWLEDGE

THE THREE GRACES

CUCKOO! CUCKOO!'

PASTEUR'S WORD TO YOUNG MEN

THE STUDENT'S FAREWELL TO SUMMER

A SONG OF GOOD COUNSEL

A SONG OF BACKGAMMON

A SONG FOR THE ROAD, AND A RULE FOR THE LIFE

A SONG OF OLD AGE

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II.

CHRIST AND CHRISTENDOM

ATHEISTIC SCIENTISTS

SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE.

TO SCOTCH HERESY-HUNTERS

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL

THE ORIGIN OF EVIL

ΘΕΛΩ, ΘΕΛΩ ΜΑΝΗΝΑΙ

OUTSIDE AND INSIDE

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SICKNESS AND RECOVERY

II.—Recovery.

ROBERT BURNS II

THE LATE REV. DR. NORMAN MACLEOD

CHINESE GORDON I

CHINESE GORDON II

ALEXANDER PEDEN

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE BARONESS BURDETT COUTTS

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF ROSEBERY

DR. WALTER SMITH

TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF ARGYLL

TAYMOUTH CASTLE

TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND

ABSENTEE PROPRIETORS

LORD BYRON AND THE ARMENIAN CONVENT

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III.

III HISTORICAL BALLADS

MERLIN AND KENTIGERN

PEDEN THE PROPHET

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Messis Vitae

Gleanings of Song from a Happy Life: By John Stuart Blackie

John Stuart Blackie

1809-1895

Macmillan

London New York

1886