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The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir

Edited by Thomas Aird: With A Memoir of the Author
Moir, D. M. (1798-1851)
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VOL. I.
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DOMESTIC VERSES.
  
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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE TWEED;
  
[As we had been in heart, now link'd in hand]
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I. WARK CASTLE.
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II. DRYBURGH ABBEY.
  
III. MELROSE ABBEY.
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IV. ABBOTSFORD.
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V. NIDPATH CASTLE.
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VI. “THE BUSH ABOON TRAQUAIR.”
  
TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER, E. C. M.
  
CASA WAPPY.
  
WEE WILLIE.
  
CASA'S DIRGE.
  
ELEGIAC STANZAS.
  
THE LOST LAMB.
  
TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES.
  
SONNET.
  
VICISSITUDE.
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ELEGIAC EFFUSIONS.
  
THE BOWER OF PEACE.
  
WEEP NOT FOR HER.
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THE FOWLER.
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THE DESERTED CHURCHYARD.
  
TO A WOOD-PIGEON.
  
THE YELLOW LEAF.
  
THE DYING SPANIEL.
  
EVENING TRANQUILLITY.
  
HYMN TO HESPERUS.
  
FADED FLOWERS.
  
THE NIGHT HAWK.
  
STARLIGHT REFLECTIONS.
  
TO A WOUNDED PTARMIGAN.
  
THE CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING.
  
SPRING HYMN.
  
OCTOBER—A SKETCH.
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POEMS ON FLOWERS.
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THE BIRTH OF THE FLOWERS.
  
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RHODOCLEA'S GARLAND.
  
THE EGLANTINE.
  
THE WHITE ROSE.
  
LILIES.
  
THE HAREBELL.
  
THE WALL-FLOWER.
  
THE DAISY.
  
THE SWEET-BRIAR.
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POEMS SUGGESTED BY CELEBRATED SCOTTISH LOCALITIES.
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THE TOWER OF ERCILDOUNE.
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VIII.
  
THE GLEN OF ROSLIN.
  
THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE.
  
FLODDEN FIELD.
  
THE FIELD OF PINKIE.
  
HAWTHORNDEN.
  
THE RUINS OF SETON CHAPEL.
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LINES IN THE PARK OF KELBURN CASTLE.
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THE THORN OF PRESTON.
  
THE BASS ROCK.
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THOMSON'S BIRTH-PLACE.
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OCCASIONAL POEMS.
  
A SHADOW OF TRUTH.
  
STANZAS FOR THE BURNS FESTIVAL.
  
STANZAS,
  
SONG, FOR THE
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SONNETS.
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SONNETS ON THE SCENERY OF THE ESK.
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MOONLIGHT CHURCHYARD.
  
TO WORDSWORTH.
  
TO THE MUSE OF MILTON.
  
RURAL SCENERY.
  
CRICHTON CHAPEL.
  
WINTER.
  
THE SCOTTISH SABBATH.
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POEMS IN REFERENCE TO CHILDHOOD.
  
STANZAS ON AN INFANT.
  
THE EARLY LOST.
  
ADDRESS TO LITTLE CHILDREN.
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ECHOES OF ANTIQUITY.
  
THE MESSAGE OF SETH.
  
HIPPOCRATES TO THE AMBASSADORS OF ARTAXERXES.
  
THE LEGEND OF ST ROSALIE.
  
THE BURDEN OF SION.
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SONGS.
  
SONG OF THE SOUTH.
  
FAREWELL OUR FATHERS' LAND.
  
MOURN FOR THE BRAVE.
  
ERIC'S DIRGE.
  
THE STORMY SEA.
  
THE MAID OF ULVA.
  
LAMENT FOR MACRIMMON.
  
HEIGH-HO!
  
THE WANDERER OF CONNAUGHT.
  
MARY DHU.
  
THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN.
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BALLADS.
  
THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST.
  
THE HIGHLANDER'S RETURN.
  
WIZZERDE WYNKIN'S DETHE.
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TALES.
  
DE QUINCEY'S REVENGE.
  
THE MINER OF PERU.
  
SIR ELIDUC.
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
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THE OLD SEAPORT.
  
THE CONTADINA.
  
THE WINTER WILD.
  
THE DEFEAT OF WINTER.
  
MAY-DAY.
  
AN EVENING SKETCH.
  
ON THE DEATH OF IDA.
  
OUR NATIVE LAND.
  
BLOOM AND BLIGHT.
  
MINE OWN.
  
THE IMPROVISATRICE.
  
CHRISTMAS MUSINGS.
  
LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY C. R. LESLIE, ESQ., R.A.
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THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD.
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THE BARD'S WISH.
  
THE LAMENT OF SELIM.
  
THE DARK WAGGON.
  
DISENCHANTMENT.
  
THE SYCAMINE.
  
THE COVENANTERS' NIGHT-HYMN.
  
REQUIEM.
  
THE MATIN CAROL.
  
STANZAS. WHEN THOU AT EVENTIDE ART ROAMING.
  
REMEMBERED BEAUTY.
  
THE VETERAN TAR.
  
THE RUINED NUNNERY.
  
THE HOUR OF THOUGHT.
  
TO INEZ, IN ABSENCE.
  
TO INEZ, IN REMEMBRANCE.
  
TO INEZ, IN LAMENT.
  
HYMN TO THE MOON.
  
MELANCHOLY.
  
THE UNKNOWN GRAVE.
  
DESPONDENCY. A REVERIE.
  
THE ANGLER.
  
THE TOMBLESS MAN. A DREAM.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN THE ISLE OF BUTE.
  
HYMN TO THE NIGHT WIND.
  
THE SNOW.
  
THE CASTLE OF TIME. A VISION.

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V.

The Eildon Tree hath passed away
By natural process of decay;
We search around, and see it not,
Though yet a grey stone marks the spot
Where erst its boughs, with quivering fear,
O'erarched the sprite-attended seer,
Holding unhallowed colloquy
On things to come and things gone by.
And still the Goblin Burn steals round
The purple heath with lonely sound,

A small stream in the neighbourhood of the Eildon Tree (or rather Stone, as its quondam site is now pointed out by a piece of rock) has received the name of the Bogle Burn, from the spirits which were thought to haunt the spot in attendance on the prophet.


As when its waters stilled their noise
To listen to the silver voice,
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Which sang in wild prophetic strains,
Of Scotland's perils and her pains—
Of dire defeat on Flodden Hill—
Of Pinkyncleuch's blood-crimsoned rill—
Of coming woes, of lowering wars,
Of endless battles, broils, and jars—
Till France's Queen should bear a son
To make two rival kingdoms one,
And many a wound of many a field
Of blood, in Bruce's blood be healed.

Among the prophecies ascribed to the Rhymer is the following, evidently relating to the junction of the crowns under James VI.:—

“Then to the bairn I could say,
Where dwellest thou, in what countrye?
Or who shall rule the isle Britain
From the north to the south sea?
The French queen shall bear the son
Shall rule all Britain to the sea:
Which from the Bruce's blood shall come
As near as the ninth degree.”

That severe, yet acute and candid, expurgator of historical truth, the late Lord Hailes, in a dissertation devoted to the prophecies of Bede, Merlin, Gildas, and our bard, makes it pretty distinctly appear that the lines just quoted are an interpolation, and do not appertain to True Thomas at all, but to Berlington, another approved soothsayer of a later age.


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