Poems on several subjects

An Epitaph on that puissant Duke of Berwick, Great Marshal of France, who, at the siege of Phillipsburgh, viewing the trenches, had his head shot off by a cannon ball, in the year 1734.

CHRIST's KIRK on the GREEN.

An Epistle to Mr P---, one of his Majesty's Officers of Excise, on his ridiculing my Verses.

A Letter to J--- B--- an old Batchelor, persuading him to marry.

Written by a Gentleman upon seeing some of my Verses.

My ANSWER.

An Epistle to Mr Allan Ramsay.

Said on WRITING.

An Epistle to a Friend newly married, against the will of his Wife's Friends.

To the Laird of ABERCAIRNIE.

Upon our jolly Change-Keeper leaving the place.

A Tale of two Brothers, and their Posterity.

The AUTHOR's Wish.

On FORTUNE.

Upon the fair Sex.

PROVERBS, Chap. xxxi. Verse 10.

The honest Country-man's Meditation, as he was humming it over alone in Words at Resting-time.

Thirty Riddles, with their Expositions.

A POEM, shewing the Original, Antiquity, Beauty, and Glory of Masonry; also its Progress, Improvements, and Usefulness; with a Description of the Mason's Lodge. All which is concluded with an Ode, sung to the tune of, The free and accepted Mason. To which is prefixed, instead of a Preface, a Poem on the printed Pamphlet.

A POEM on Masonry.

The Masons Lodge.

The ODE.

On receiving a Compliment from the Right Honourable the Lord Kinnaird.

An ELEGY on auld Use and Wont

An ELEGY on Johnie Galla'.

An EPISTLE, from Mr D--- L--- Schoolmaster at Kinnaird, to Alexander Nicol Schoolmaster at Collace, February 3d 1749; on seeing my last book, called Nature without Art.

Alexander Nicol's Answer to the foregoing Epistle, February 6th 1749.

James Ratcliff's Retreat from the Prison of Edinburgh, Monday 23d of July 1739, he being to be hanged the Wednesday after:

A SAPPHIC ODE.

A SONG, Tune Allan Water.

A POEM on R--- H--- of South-Ballo.

ACROSTIC.

A Remark on the Poverty of Poets.

The Complaint of a Lark directed to a great Lion: A Fable; occasioned by another Lion being influenced by some evil Speaker, to suspect the honesty of the Lark.

The Cat and the Ape. A Fable.

On seeing Smith and Craig's bantering Poems, anent the building of a School-house at Glenshie.

An EPISTLE to Mr Robert Smith Schoolmaster at Kinnaird, upon his saying he would not stay in the Place.

Mr Smith's ANSWER.

Another EPISTLE to Mr Robert Smith.

The PETITION of Alexander Nicol. Schoolmaster at Collace, to the Honourable Sir William Nairn of Dunsinnan Baronet.

An EPITAPH on Alexander Robertson of Struan.

An ACROSTICK.

To the Memory of the Honourable George Hay of Leys, Esq

On Captain Balnave's being dangerously sick of a Fever at the time he should have been married; inscribed to his Lady afterwards.

On the City of DUNDEE.

The BROKEN LAIRD REPAIR'D; OR, The DYVOUR turn'd a THRIVER:

Sung by Miss JENNY.

On FORTUNE.

A PASTORAL between Colin, Willie, and Deavy, upon Baledgarno's Marriage.

VENUS's JOURNEY. A POEM inscribed to Mr Ogilvie of Inchmartine, on his Marriage.

On Mrs Ogilvie's Chariot-wheel sinking on the Brink of the River Spey.

To the Right Honourable the Lord Kinnaird, on his commencing Master of Masons, &c.

II.

NATURE without ART.

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An Epitaph on that puissant Duke of Berwick, Great Marshal of France, who, at the siege of Phillipsburgh, viewing the trenches, had his head shot off by a cannon ball, in the year 1734.

Here lies his grace, the duke of Berwick, who,
With braving courage, scorn'd the raging foe.
His warlike arms undauntedly pursu'd
His Prince's glory, and his country's good:
Till at the siege of Phillipsburgh, sad fate!
The fatal moment did him there await!
From the artill'ry of the subtile foe,
Death flew, and struck his head off at one blow.
Had Death but stood so candidly as fac'd him,
His valour from the Gaulian coasts had chas'd him.
But terror seiz'd the king of terrors so,
That, like a coward, behind he struck the blow.

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An Epitaph on that puissant Duke of Berwick, Great Marshal of France, who, at the siege of Phillipsburgh, viewing the trenches, had his head shot off by a cannon ball, in the year 1734.