SELECTIONS

FROM THE

BRITISH POETS.

BY

FITZ GREENE HALLECK.

3.27737

CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

JAMES BEATTIE.

The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius

OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

The Hermit

The Deserted Village

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

On the death of Mr. Robert Levet

The Vanity of Human Wishes

JOHN SCOTT.

Ode on hearing the Drum

CHARLES CHURCHILL.

Character of a Critical Fribble

WILLIAM FALCONER.

From "the Shipwreck"

JOHN LOGAN.

Ode to the Cuckoo

The Lovers

ANNE LETITIA BARBAULD.

Hymn to Content

Ode to Spring

WILLIAM COWPER.

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture

On the Loss of the Royal George

From "the Task"

The Diverting History of John Gilpin

ROBERT BURNS.

The Cotter's Saturday Night

To a Mountain Daisy

To the Herb Rosemary

HENRY KIRKE WHITE.

The Dance of the Consumptives

The Shipwrecked Solitary's Song to the Night

The Lullaby of a female Convict to her Child the

night previous to Execution

Sonnet

MRS. COCKBURN.

The Flowers of the Forest

JOHN LEYDEN.

Scottish Music

From "Scenes of Infancy"

JAMES MONTGOMERY.

Columbus

Home

The Grave

Hannah

The Daisy

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JOHN KEATS.

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode to Psyche

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

From "Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude"

Stanzas

Mutability

Lines to an Indian Air

. 151

Stanzas

. 165

Kilmeny

. 168

Love

Lines

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

Hymn before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouny

From "Wallenstein"

Britain

Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream

FELICIA HEMANS.

England's Dead

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

The Grave of Körner.

Rhine Song

The Hour of Death