UNIQUE SELECTION,

MORAL, INSTRUCTIVE, AND ENTERTAINING,

FROM THE MOST EMINENT

British Poets, and Poetical Translators.

BY

R. A. DAVENPORT, ESQ.

EDITOR OF WHITTINGHAM'S EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS.

IN SIX VOLUMES.

IV.

AMATORY AND MISCELLANEOUS ELEGIES, MONODIES,

FUNEREAL ELEGIES, AND EPITAPHS.

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CONTENTS.

PART VII.
Elegles, Amatory and Miscellaneous.

Page

To * ***.......... Byron. 1

To * * * *

. . . . Byron. 3

Stanzas to ****, on leaving England Byron. 4

To Laura . . . . . . . . . . . . Day. 6

Elegy. ..........., Darwin 9

To a Taft of early Violets. iiiGifford. 10

Written two Years after the preceding Gifford. 12

The Sorrows of Memory ... Mrs. Robinson. 13

The Farewell ...

Love Elegy. In Imitation of Tibullus . . Smollett. 17

Ini

16

::: : . . Russel.

Laura; or, The Complaint . . . . . Marriot. 18

The Lover and the Friend . . . Edward Moore, 25

Maia's Bier . . . . . . . . Anonymous. 27

Stanzas to Mary . . . . . . P. M. James. 29

Elegy . . . . . . . . . Mrs. D. Stewart. 30

The Banks of Nith . . . . Maria Riddell. 31

The Maid with Bosom cold ... W. Smyth. 33

The Lover to his Mistress ... Anonymous. 35

Love Elegies . . . . . . . . . Munday. 36

1. On leaving Bath . . . . . . . . . 36

2. On Returning Home from Winchester . . 38

3. Despair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4. Absence ...41

5. Parting ............ 42

: ....Anonymous. 44

Answer to the foregoing Elegy.. Anonymous. 46

To Delia . . . . . . . . Hammond. 47

VOL. IV,

The Sailor . . . . . . . .

Montgomery.

Page

To Delia. In the Manner of Ovid . . Hammond. 48

Cynthia.

:::::. Percy. 50

Written on Valentine's Morning . . Anonymous. 54

On his falling in Love with Neæra . . Hammond, 57

To Fortune . . . . . . . . Shenstone. 59

His Recantation . . . . . . . . Shenstone. 61

To Delia, with some Flowers . . . Shenstone.

Stanzas to .. i . . Byron.

Love Elegy . . . . . . . . . F. Laurence. 65

Delia . . . . . . . . . : Mrs. Barbauld. 67

Elegy . . . . . . . . . . Miss Seward. 70

Written at Sea . . . . . Rev. G. Huddisford.

.... Rogers.

Hannah . . . . . . . . . . Montgomery. 76

The Garland .......... Prior. 78

To the River Isis . . . . . . . . Headley. 80

Written in Autumn . . . . . . . Hamley,

Elegiac Epistle to a Friend . . . .. Gay.

To a withered Leaf . . . . . . W. Roberts.

Elegiac Stanzas on Myself.... Dermody. 86

On the Misfortunes of an ingenuous Mind.Dermody. 8

The Orphan's Prayer ..... M. G. Lewis. 89

Written in Spring ........ Bruce. 91

The Visionary ..... Hon. W. Spencer. 94

Written in a Cottage Garden .. Langhorne. 95

The Hotwells' Patient . . . . . Dr. Beddoes.

: . Dr. Beddoes. 97

Written at the Hotwells, Bristol ... Bowles. 102

The Reverie . . . ... Maria Riddell. 106

Elegiac Stanzas .......... Dr. Sewell, 107

The Dream ........ E. Smedley, Jun. 108

Stanzas to a Candle . . . . . . . . Boyse. 109

Elegiac Stanzas . . . . ....Bowles. 110

::: Earl of Carysfort, 114

The Emigrant's Grave. . Hon. W.PR. Spencer. 116

Stanzas . ... ... Anonymous. 117

Death. ..::::: 1

.. E. Smedley, Jun. 118

Stanzas written in the Spring ... . Anonymous. 119

The Lament.......... Burns. 121

The Tears of Scotland . . . . . . . Smollet. 124

The Slave's Complaint .. .. Roscoe. 126