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The Poetical Works of Robert Anderson

Anderson, R. (1770-1833)

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VOLUME I
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THE ROSE OF CORBYE,
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CANTO THE FIRST.
 2. 
CANTO THE SECOND.
  
THE DYING HARPER.
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CONNOR, A FRAGMENT,
 1. 
CANTO THE FIRST.
  
CANTO THE SECOND.
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FAIR MARGARET'S BOWER.
 1. 
CANTO THE FIRST.
 2. 
CANTO THE SECOND.
 3. 
CANTO THE THIRD.
  
THE HARPER.
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ENIGMAS.
 1. 
ENIGMA THE FIRST.
 2. 
ENIGMA THE SECOND.
 3. 
ENIGMA THE THIRD.
 4. 
ENIGMA THE FOURTH.
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EPISTLES.
 1. 
EPISTLE THE FIRST.
 2. 
EPISTLE THE SECOND.
 3. 
EPISTLE THE THIRD.
 4. 
EPISTLE THE FOURTH.
 5. 
EPISTLE THE FIFTH.
 6. 
EPISTLE THE SIXTH.
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EPISTLE THE SEVENTH.
 8. 
EPISTLE THE EIGHTH.
 9. 
EPISTLE THE NINTH.
 10. 
EPISTLE THE TENTH.
 11. 
EPISTLE THE ELEVENTH.
 12. 
EPISTLE THE TWELFTH.
 13. 
EPISTLE THE THIRTEENTH.
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VOLUME II
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MISCELLANIES.
  
THE WIDOW.
  
STANZAS ON VISITING A MOTHER'S GRAVE.
  
INSCRIPTION WRITTEN AT CORBY CASTLE,
  
MAN WAS NOT MADE TO MOURN.
  
OUR SAILORS.
  
MIDNIGHT REFLECTIONS.
  
TEA.
  
LOUISA, A BALLAD.
  
ODE TO POVERTY.
  
INSCRIPTION FOR AN OAK SEAT
  
STANZAS WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, 1799.
  
THE AUTHOR'S WILL.
  
SCENE FROM THE MUSICAL FARCE OF “THE BEGGAR GIRL.”
  
ODE TO FORTUNE.
  
STANZAS
  
A CHARACTER.
  
AN ADDRESS
  
ROBESPIERE'S LAMENT.
  
LINES ON SEEING A BOY TORTURE AN INSECT.
  
TO MY FLUTE.
  
DECEMBER, A FRAGMENT.
  
FRAGMENT.
  
FRAGMENT, WRITTEN EXTEMPORE.
  
LINES,
  
A LESSON TO YOUTH.
  
LINES TO A REDBREAST.
  
STANZAS,
  
LINES,
  
A REFLECTION.
  
THE POOR PRUDE.
  
THE ROSE.
  
TO THE LARK.
  
STANZAS
  
TO YOUTH.
  
EPITAPH ON DAVID BIGGER, ESQ.
  
EPITAPH ON THE FATHER OF A FRIEND.
  
EPITAPH ON MARIA OF THE COTTAGE.
  
EPITAPH ON AKEL BULBEE,
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SONNETS.
  
WRITTEN ON THE AUTHOR'S BIRTH-DAY
  
TO WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ.
  
TO MARIA OF THE COTTAGE.
  
TO MARIA OF THE COTTAGE.
  
TO MRS. HOWARD, OF CORBY CASTLE,
  
MARY'S ABSENCE.
  
TO MRS. CHARLOTTE SMITH.
  
TO EVENING.
  
ADDRESSED TO THE INFANT SON OF GAELUS,
  
TO THE RIVER EDEN.
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CUMBERLAND BALLADS.
  
NICHOL THE NEWSMONGER.
  
THE IMPATIENT LASSIE.
  
TOM LINTON.
  
KITT CRAFFET.
  
WATTY.
  
THE BLECKELL MURRY-NEET.
  
THE VILLAGE GANG.
  
LANG SEYNE.
  
CANNY CUMMERLAN.
  
THE FELLOWS ROUN TORKIN.
  
BORROWDALE JWOHNNY.
  
THE CODBECK WEDDIN.
  
THE ILL-GIEN WEYFE, AN OWRE TRUE PICTURE O' MONIE.
  
ROB LOWRIE.
  
THE LASSES OF CAREL.
  
THE DAYS THAT ARE GEANE.
  
CAREL FAIR.
  
THE WIDOW'S WAIL.
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SONGS.
  
LUCY GRAY, OF ALLENDALE.
  
THE MOUNTAIN BOY.
  
MARY.
  
THE FARMER'S WELCOME HOME.
  
THE OUTCAST MOTHER.
  
BRITONS, UNITED, THE WORLD MAY DEFY.
  
THE EVENING WALK.
  
MAD MARGERY.
  
THE CAPTURE OF THE CHESAPEAKE.
  
NEGRO AFFECTION.
  
THE DEATH OF CRAZY JANE.
  
MARY.
  
POOR WILL.
  
RED ROBIN.
  
ORPHAN BESS.
  
THE HERO OF THE NILE.
  
TEDDY M‘FANE.
  
BEGGAR WILLY'S LAMENT.
  
SUMMER.
  
JINGLE THE GLASSES.
  
THE MANIAC.
  
THE WILD ROSE.
  
TO MARY.
  
EVENING.
  
TO NANNY.
  
THE SHIP-WRECKED SEA-BOY.
  
BRITANNIA'S CALL.
  
THE LOVER'S TRIAL.
  
THE ROSE OF THE VALLEY.
  
MARY.
  
WILL O' THE GLEN.
  
THE COTTAGE GIRL.
  
THE KIRK-YARD YEW.
  
THE LAND WE LIVE IN.
  
TO MARY.
  
CRAZY KATE.
  
THE CASTLE BUILDER.
  
FAREWELL TO GILSLAND.
  
HODGE AND THE SQUIRE.
  
THE VALE OF TEARS.
  
TO MARY.
  
THE CAPTAIN'S LADY.
  
THE AUTHOR ON HIMSELF.
  
THE FAIR-HAIR'D MAID.
  
ADDRESSED TO MR. WM. BELL, OF GILSLAND, W. M. AND THE BRETHREN OF ST. MICHAEL'S LODGE, BRAMPTON.

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THE VALE OF TEARS.

Yes! there are pleasures some ne'er know,
And there are pains too many prove;
And bliss is oft the source of woe,
Ev'n when it springs from virtuous love.
Hope, fair deceiver,
Lures us for ever!
Sweet her smiles in life's gay morn;
But, ah! her roses,
Reason shews us,
Hide full many a cank'ring thorn.
We toil for wealth, we seek for fame,
And various phantoms we pursue:
This oft brings care, that's but a name;
At last reflection whispers true.—
“Poor murmuring creature,
Weak by nature,
Swell'd by hopes, oppressed by fears;
Proud and ungrateful,
Vain, deceitful,
Man makes life a Vale of Tears!”
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