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The Poetical Works of Thomas Pringle

With A Sketch of his Life, by Leitch Ritchie
Pringle, Thomas (1789-1834)

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AFRICAN SKETCHES.
  
TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.
  
THE BECHUANA BOY.
  
AFAR IN THE DESERT.
  
SONG OF THE WILD BUSHMAN.
  
THE CORANNA.
  
THE KOSA.
  
EVENING RAMBLES.
  
THE LION HUNT.
  
THE LION AND GIRAFFE.
  
THE EMIGRANT'S CABIN.
  
AN EMIGRANT'S SONG.
  
MAKANNA'S GATHERING.
  
THE INCANTATION.
  
THE CAFFER COMMANDO.
  
A NOON-DAY DREAM.
  
THE BROWN HUNTER'S SONG.
  
THE EXILE'S LAMENT.
  
THE CAPTIVE OF CAMALÚ.
  
THE DESOLATE VALLEY.
  
THE GHONA WIDOW'S LULLABY.
  
THE ROCK OF RECONCILEMENT.
  
THE FORESTER OF THE NEUTRAL GROUND.
  
THE SLAVE DEALER.
  
THE TORNADO.
  
PARAPHRASE OF THE TWENTY-THIRD PSALM.
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SONNETS.
  
I. THE HOTTENTOT.
  
II. THE CAFFER.
  
III. THE BUSHMAN.
  
IV. SLAVERY.
  
V. FRANSCHEHOEK.
  
VI. GENADENDAL.
  
VII. ENON.
  
VIII. THE GOOD MISSIONARY.
  
IX. TO THE REV. DR. PHILIP.
  
X. A COMMON CHARACTER.
  
XI. THE NAMELESS STREAM.
  
XII. MY COUNTRY.
  
XIII. THE CAPE OF STORMS.
  
XIV. TO OPPRESSION.
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INTRODUCTORY STANZAS.
  
THE EMIGRANTS.
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EPHEMERIDES.
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PART I. JUVENILE POEMS.
  
THE AUTUMNAL EXCURSION.
  
STREAMS, WHOSE LONELY WATERS GLIDE.
  
A GRACEFUL FORM, A GENTLE MIEN.
  
THE LEGEND OF THE ROSE.
  
THE WREATH.
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FRAGMENTS OF A DREAM OF FAIRY-LAND.
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FYTTE I.
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FYTTE II.
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FYTTE III.
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FYTTE IV.
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FYTTE V.
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FYTTE VI.
  
LINES, WRITTEN ON HEARING OF THE DEATH OF AN EARLY FRIEND.
  
A PARTING DIRGE.
  
ELEGIAC STANZAS.
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PART II. SONGS AND SONNETS.
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SONGS.
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I. LOVE AND SOLITUDE.
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II. MAID OF MY HEART, A LONG FAREWELL.
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III. I'LL BID MY HEART BE STILL.
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IV. O THE EWE-BUGHTING'S BONNY.
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V. MARY OF GLEN-FYNE.
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VI. COME AWA, COME AWA!
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VII. THE HIGHLANDS!
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VIII. THE DARK-HAIRED MAID.
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IX. OH! NOT WHEN HOPES ARE BRIGHTEST.
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X. PLEASANT TEVIOTDALE.
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XI. DEAREST LOVE! BELIEVE ME.
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SONNETS.
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I. TO AN EARLY FRIEND.
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II. TO THE RIVER EARN.
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III. OF LOVE AND LOVE'S DELIGHT.
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IV. LONG YEARS OF SORROW.
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V. THE EMBLEM.
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VI. TO LORD LYNEDOCH, On his return to Spain, March 1813.
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VII. TO A FEMALE RELATIVE.
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VIII. TO AFFLICTION.
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IX. ON PARTING WITH A FRIEND GOING ABROAD.
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X. TO THE POET CAMPBELL.
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XI. POETS ARE NATURE'S PRIESTS.
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PART III. MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.
  
THE SPAEWIFE.
  
LINES WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM.
  
A POET'S FAVOURITE.
  
ON A VIEW OF SPOLETO.
  
VERSES, ON THE RESTORATION OF DESPOTISM IN SPAIN, IN 1823.
  
THE REFUGEES.
  
SPANIARDS, YIELD NOT TO DESPAIR.
  
OUR NEIGHBOUR.
  
MEMENTO.
  
THE VALLEY OF HUMAN LIFE.
  
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. DR. WAUGH.
  
A HYMN.
  
INSCRIPTION, FOR A TOMB-STONE IN THE BURIAL-GROUND AT DRYBURGH ABBEY.

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XI. POETS ARE NATURE'S PRIESTS.

Poets are Nature's Priests: their hallow'd eyes
Behold her Mercy-Seat within the Veil;
From their melodious lips the nations hail
Her oracles, and learn her mysteries.
With pure and pious hearts, then let them prize
Their consecration: Shall they hold for sale
The gift of Heaven? and tempt mankind to rail
At glorious powers—profaned for lusts or lies!
Thus Phineas and Hophni dared profane
God's altar—till their father's house was cursed,
And they destroy'd; and even the Ark was ta'en
From the lewd nation that such vileness nursed.
Men highly privileged are prone to ill:
Yet Israel then had Samuel—we have Wordsworth still.
1820.
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