THE

WREATH 8

COLLECTION OF POEMS,

FROM

CELEBRATED ENGLISH AUTHORS.

HARTFORD :'

PUBLISHED BY SILAS ANDRUS.

CONTENTS.

Page

THE MINSTREL.-Beattie.

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

THE GRAVE.-Blair.

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

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

"The midnight clock has toll'd—and, hark, the bell."

HYMN, from Psalm 148.-Ogilvie.

52

76

81

"Begin, my soul, the exalted lay."

THE FIRESIDE.-Cotton.

86

"Dear Chloe, while the busy crowd.”

DEATH.-Dr. Porteus.

90

"Friend to the wretch whom every friend forsakes."

THE PASSIONS.-Collins.

101

"When Music, heavenly maid, was young."

DESPONDENCY.-Burns.

106

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

ON SLAVERY.-Cowper.

109

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

HYMN ON SOLITUDE.-Thompson.

111

"Hail, mildly pleasing Solitude."

HYMN TO DARKNESS.-Yalden.

113

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

STANZAS ON WOMAN.-Goldsmith.

118

"When lovely woman stoops to folly."

EDWIN AND ANGELINA.-Goldsmith.

117

"Turn, gentle Hermit of the dale."

ELEGY, written in a Country Church Yard.-Gray. 124

"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day."

ODE TO LEVEN WATER.-Smollet.

85

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

BEAM OF TRANQUILLITY.-Moore.

130

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

THE DYING NEGRO.-Day.

149

"Arm'd with thy sad last gift-the power to die."

HYMN ON the SEASONS.-Thompson.

165

"These, as they change, Almighty Father."

THE HERMIT.-Parnell.

169

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

THE TRAVELLER, or a Prospect of Society.-

Goldsmith.

178

"Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow."

THE HERMIT.-Beattie.

193

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

BOAT SONG.-Scott.

195

"Hail to the chief who in triumph advances."

THE CASTLE OF INDOLENCE.-Thompson.

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

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