The poems and literary prose of Alexander Wilson ::

The poems and literary prose of Alexander Wilson

... for the first time fully collected and compared with the original and early editions ... edited ... by the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart ... with portrait, illustrations, &c

Wilson, Alexander (1766-1813)

Part I. —Scottish Poems.

WATTY AND MEG, OR THE WIFE REFORMED.

HOGMENAE.

THE DISCONSOLATE WREN.

THE LOSS OF THE PACK.

THE PACK.

THE INSULTED PEDLAR.

RABBY'S MISTAKE,

CALLAMPHITRE'S ELEGY.

VERSES,

EPPIE AND THE DEIL.

DAY-BREAK.

ELEGY ON AN UNFORTUNATE TAILOR.

ELEGY

EPITAPH ON AULD JANET.

THE SHARK;

HOLLANDER, OR LIGHT WEIGHT.

HAB'S DOOR,

ADDRESS TO THE SYNOD OF GLASGOW AND AYR.

AN EXPOSTULATORY ADDRESS TO THE RAGGED SPECTRE, POVERTY.

ODE,

ACHTERTOOL.

FIRST EPISTLE TO MR. JAMES DOBIE.

SECOND EPISTLE TO MR. JAMES DOBIE.

AN EPISTLE TO MR. EBENEZER PICKEN.

EPISTLE TO A BROTHER PEDLAR.

FIRST EPISTLE TO MR. WILLIAM MITCHELL.

SECOND EPISTLE TO MR. WILLIAM MITCHELL.

THIRD EPISTLE TO WILLIAM MITCHELL.

SECOND EPISTLE TO MR. JAMES KENNEDY.

SECOND EPISTLE TO MR. ANDREW CLARK.

VERSES TO A STATIONER.

EPITAPH ON JOHN ALLEN.

II.

Part II. —English Poems.

THE FORESTERS.

THE SOLITARY TUTOR.

THE AMERICAN BLUE-BIRD.

THE HUMMING-BIRD.

THE BALTIMORE BIRD.

THE FISH-HAWK, OR OSPREY.

THE TYRANT FLY-CATCHER, OR KING BIRD.

POETICAL LETTER TO WILLIAM DUNCAN, HIS NEPHEW,

EPISTLE TO C. ORR.

LOCHWINNOCH.—A DESCRIPTIVE POEM.

MORNING. SCENE.—A BARN.

EVENING.

THE RETURN OF SPRING: A SONG.

LINES WRITTEN ON A SUMMER EVENING.

THUNDER-STORM.

THE TEARS OF BRITAIN.

EPISTLE TO MR. DAVID BRODIE.

ADDRESS TO CALDER BANKS.

THE SHEPHERDESS' DREAM.

THOUGHTS IN A CHURCHYARD.

VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF AN ENGAGING YOUTH,

TO THE FAMISHING BARD.

THE GROUP.

EPISTLE TO MR. JAMES KENNEDY.

EPISTLE TO MR. T. WOTHERSPOON.

ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF W. WOTHERSPOON,

THE FLY AND LEECH.

THE MONKEY AND BEE.

THE WASP'S REVENGE.

GROANS FROM THE LOOM.

CHARACTER DRAWN FROM LIFE,

EPISTLE TO MR. ANDREW CLARK.

INVOCATION.

HAPPINESS.—AN ODE.

DESPONDENCE.—A PASTORAL ODE.

THE SUICIDE.

ALEXIS' COMPLAINT.

DEATH—A POEM.

APOLLO AND THE PEDLAR.

MATTY, A SONG.

TO DELIA.

THE CRUELTY OF REVENGE.

LINES ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE SAILOR AND LOUSE.’

VERSES, ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE SPANIEL, MALICIOUSLY POISONED.

TO A SEALED LETTER.

ON A DEPARTED DRUNKARD.

TO DR. TAYLOR, PAISLEY.

EPISTLE TO MR. J--- B---.

ODE.

HARDYKNUTE; OR THE BATTLE OF LARGS.

OSSIAN'S LAMENT.

A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE.

SONG.

ELEGY.

TO THE HON. WILLIAM M'DOWAL, OF GARTHLAND, ON HIS RETURN FROM PARLIAMENT, JULY, 1791.

EPIGRAM.

THE RAKE: AN EPIGRAM.

TO THE CURIOUS.

PRAYER.

HYMNS.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

VII.

JEFFERSON AND LIBERTY.

III.

Part III.—Poems hitherto uncollected, or for the first time printed.

OWRE STEEP ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

THE BENIGHTED PEDLAR.

THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE'S SONG.

CONCLUSION.

THE INVITATION.

THE PILGRIM—A POEM.

IN MEMORY OF CAPTAIN LEWIS.

ON SEEING THE PORTRAIT OF ROBERT BURNS.

A RURAL WALK.

LAVINIA.

BLOOMFIELD.

THE ARISTOCRAT'S WAR-WHOOP.

A SONG.

DEACON GRUMBO THE MILLER.—A NEW SONG.

THE DOMINIE.

IV.

IV.—Poems ascribed to Wilson.

ODE BY THE LATE ALEXANDER WILSON.

SONG.

AN AULD SCOTTISH SANG.

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V. [Why fails my courage now?]

Why fails my courage now?
Why tremble I at death?
Why sweats my throbbing brow,
To yield that trifle—breath?
Alas! some pow'r within
Incessant seems to say;
That I, in deepest sin,
Have trifled life away.
Oh! save me from the deep,
That life I may renew;
Suspend the blow, but keep
Death ever in my view.

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[Why fails my courage now?]