THE

WREATH;

A

COLLECTION OF POEMS,

FROM

CELEBRATED ENGLISH AUTHORS.

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY W. B. GILLEY AND H. I. MEGAREY.

J. Seymour, printer.

..

THE NEW YORK

PUBLIC LIBRARY 487493

CONTENTS.

"Ah! who can tell how hard it is to climb."

THE MINSTREL.-Beattie,

THE GRAVE.-Blair,

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13

55

"Whilst some affect the sun, and some the shade."

ELEGY, On the Death of Lady Coventry.-Mason, 80

"The mid-night clock has toll'd-and, hark, the bell."

HYMN, from Psalm 148. Ogilvie,

85

" Begin, my soul, the exalted lay."

THE FIRE-SIDE. Cotton:

89

"Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd."

DEATH.-Dr. Porteus,

93

"Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes."

THE PASSIONS.-Collins;

104

"When Music, heavenly maid, was young."

DESPONDENCY.-Burns,

"Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care."

109

ON SLAVERY.-Cowper,

112

"But, ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer."

"Darkness, thou first great parent of us all."

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ELEGY, written in a CountryChurch-yard. Gray, 127

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

ODE TO LEVEN WATER,-Smollet,

133

"On Leven's Banks, while free to rove."

BEAM OF TRANQUILLITY.-Moore,

134

"A beam of tranquillity smil'd in the West."

THE SOLDIER'S DREAM, Campbell.

151

Our bugles sang truce for the night cloud had low'r'd."

THE DYING NEGRO. Day,

153

"Armed with thy sad-last gift-the power to die."

HYMN ON THE SEASONS. Thomson,

169

These as they change, Almighty Father!"

THE HERMIT. Parnell,

173

"Far in a wild, unknown to public view."

THE TRAVELLER, or a Prospect of Society.-

Goldsmith,

"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow."

181

THE HERMIT.-Beattie,

196

"At the close of the day when the hamlet is still."

BOAT SONG.-Scott,

199

"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances."

THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.-Thomson,

"O mortal man, who livest here by toil."

201