The Poetical Works of John Struthers, with Autobiography
THE POETICAL WORKS JOHN STRUTHEBS, WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Make ine to understand th way of thy precepta; so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. Holy Scripture*. VOL. II. LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND DUBLIN: A. FULLARTON AND CO, 1850, KDINBDUGH : Plil.LARTON AND MACXAB, PRINTERS, LEITIT WAI.K. CONTENTS OF VOL II. Page THE WINTER DAY, 1 Notes to do. .... ... 37 DYCHMONT, 45 Notes to do 107 Laura, 117 Jamie Gray, 127 To Labour, 136 Note to do 140 . Elegy, ^ .142 Notes to do. 142 A Fragment, .152 Ode. January 29th, 1806, 154 Written in January, 1809, .159 To Discord, 164 Anticipation, 166 To Poverty, 173 To Fancy, 177 To Peace 183 To Content, 185 On the Abolition of the Slave Trade, .... 188 The Birth of Freedom, 190 To November, 195 Lines for the 25th of January, 1810, 199 To the Blackbird, December 1799. Scottish, ... 201 To the same, in English, 205 Stanzas on the approach of Winter, 209 " To April, 1808, . 214 On Visiting some Scenes of my Youth, .... 217 The Sick Child, 229 Fragment, 226 CONTENTS. Page To Calder Water, 229 236 Time, 238 Epistle to , 247 A Day-dream, 254 To Vanity, .... Lines written for a party of Friends, 1810, . 257 The Social Hour, 259 that no Monument had been Lines to a person who lamented erected on the Grave of Robert Burns, 1798, . .260 Note to do 261 263 Lines for neglected Genius, ....;.. 265 Lines to Miss , A Nursery Rhyme, 266 SONGS, 269 EPITAPHS, 285 TRANSLATIONS, and PARAPHRASES, ... 291 THE WINTER BAY THE WINTER DAY. ALTHOUGH not now the lofty Lark, Rising 'tween the light and dark, Wildly warbling through the skies, Call the ruddy Morn to rise, in With her tresses bathed dew ; Grey clouds, thin, around her wreathing, Fragrance on the light winds breathing, Nature's glories to renew : Still, 'tis sweet her wilds to tread, Though their breathing bloom is fled.
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