114

Scottish Music, an Ode..........

Ode on visiting Flodden

Lord Soulis........

The Cout of Keeldar

The Mermaid

On the Sabbath Morning

Ode, to the Scenes of Infancy. Written in 1801........ 115

Spring, an Ode. Written while recovering from Sickness

Ode to the Evening Star.......

120

124

Greenland Elegy. A Father on the Death of his Son.. 126

The Wail of Alzira. A Negro Song..........

Epistle to a Lady, from a Dancing Bear. Sent to Lady

after dancing with her in 1801 .....

Addressed to a Lady in 1802.

..... .....

Headach. To a Lady. Written in 1802...........

To Aurelia. Written in 1802...........................................

128

130

.... 136

138

140

Sonnet. Written at Woodhouselee in 1802............... 141

Elegy on a Friend killed in the West Indies............... 142

Dirge on a young Boy

146

The Celtic Paradise, or Green Isle of the Western Waves

147

152

A Love Tale. A Fragment.........

Song of a Telinga Dancing Girl. Addressed to an European

Gentleman, in the Company of some European Ladies,

in 1803

155

The Battle of Assaye. Written in 1803 ............ Page 156
Ode on Leaving Velore. Written in 1804................. 159
Ode to an Indian Gold Coin. Written in Chéricál, Malabar.
163

166

Address to my Malay Krees. Written while pursued by a
French Privateer off Sumatra
Christmas in Penang. Written in 1804.

....... 168

Dirge of the departed Year. To Olivia. Written in 1806.

170

Verses written at the Island of Sagur, in the Mouth of the

Portugueze Hymn. To the Virgin Mary," The Star of the

Sea." Written at Sea, on board the Ship Santo Antonio

188

192

Finland Song. Addressed by a Mother to her Child
Elegiac Ode at the return of the Parentalia, or Feast of the
Dead. Imitated from Ausonius
The Saul Tree. From Bayer's Latin version of the Chinese

........

193

196

From Owen's Latin Epigrams

Epitaph, from the Latin .....

197

....... 198

The Dream, from the Latin of J. Leoch. Addressed to

Drummond of Hawthornden

..... 199

The Cretan Warrior, from Hybrias Cretensis .....

... 205

Ode to Virtue, imitated from the Greek of Aristotle (Written on the death of General Frazer, killed at the Battle of Deeg)

....... Page 206

On seeing an Eagle perched on the tombstone of Aristomenes, the Palafox of Messené

208

To a Young Lady. From the Greek of Ibycus ......... 209
From Mnesimachus. Speech of one the ancient Grecian
Bobadils
From Tyrtæus

Ditto

..... 210

211

On the Death of Marsyas, the Phrygian Poet, who is said to have been flayed alive by Apollo, after a fruitless contest with his flute against the lyre of the God. From the Greek Madagascar Song. From Parny's Chansons Madecasses 221 From the Italian of Tasso From the Italian of Menzini

.......

218

223

224

Dirge on Guillen Peraza, Governor of the Canaries, who fell in attempting the conquest of the Island Palma, soon after the year 1418. From the Spanish

225

To Camoens. From the Portugueze of De Matos ..... 227 Sonnet, from the Same

..........

. 228

Ode to Jehovah. From the Hebrew of Moses .......... 229

The Monody of Tograi. From the Arabic

233

To the Courier Dove. From the Arabic

240

On a Negro marrying an Arab Woman. From the Arabic

of Nabega

241

The Arab Warrior. From the Arabic .......... Page 242

From the Arabic of Tabát Shirrar, on revenging the blood

of his uncle, who had been murdered by the Chief of the

Tribe of Huddeil .....

Timur's War Song. From the Persic of Ali Yezdi ........... 248

Ode. From the Persic of Khakeni

244

249

Ode. From the Persic of Hafez

From the Persian of Hatefi

251

..... 253

Sonnet. Imitated from the Persic of Sadi .............. 254

The Renunciation of Poetry. From the Persic of Anwari

On Spring. From the Persic of Rashid

From the Persic of Rudeki

.......

255

257

259

The Return after Absence. From the same ............. 261

On Mahmud's War-steed. From the Persic of Unsari 263

Impromptu, on Mahmud's cutting off the tresses of his

Mistress Ayaz, one day in a passion. From the same 265

To Night. From the same

..... 266

In ridicule of Astrology. From the Persic of Catebi 267

Lament for Rama. From the Bengali

........

..... 268

Verses written after being at Sea for the first time, by Emir

Muhammed Peishaweri, an Affghan. From the Pushto

The Fight of Praya. A Malay Dirge....

270

274

The Dirge of Tippoo Sultan. From the Canara ......... 277

On the death of Tippoo Sultan. From the Hindustani 286

Scenes of Infancy

...... 295