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Memoir of Beattie, by the Rev. Alexander Dyce vii
The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, Book I 7
The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, Book II 35
Retirement 61
Elegy written in the year 1758 64
Ode to Hope 67
Ode on Lord Hay's Birthday 72
The Battle of the Pigmies and Cranes, from the PygmÆogeranomachia of Addison 76
The Hares, a Fable 88
Epitaph; being part of an Inscription designed for a Monument erected by a Gentleman to the Memory of his Lady 92
The Hermit 92
PIECES REJECTED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THE LATER
EDITIONS OF HIS POEMS.
The Judgment of Paris 97
Ode to Peace 120
The Triumph of Melancholy 126
Elegy 136
Elegy 138
The Wolf and Shepherds 141
On the Report of a Monument to be erected in Westminster Abbey, to the Memory of a late Author 145
Song, in Imitation of Shakspeare's 'Blow, Blow, thou winter wind' 153
Epitaph on two young Men of the name of Leitch, who were drowned in crossing the River Southesk, 1757 154
Epitaph intended for himself 155
Verses written by Mr. Blacklock, on a blank leaf of his Poems, sent to the Author 156
An Epistle to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Blacklock 157
To the Rt. Hon. Lady Charlotte Gordon, dressed in a Tartan Scotch Bonnet, with Plumes 166
Anacreon, Ode XXII. 167
The beginning of the First Book of Lucretius 167
Horace, Book II. Ode X. 170
Book III. Ode XIII. 171
Virgil, Pastoral I. 178
II. 179
III. 184
IV. 194
V. 198
VI. 205
VII. 210
VIII. 216
IX. 223
X. 229
Epitaph for a Sheriff's Messenger, written and published at the particular desire of the Person for whom it is intended 234
To Mr. Alexander Ross, at Lochlee, Author of 'The Fortunate Shepherdess,' and other Poems in the broad Scotch Dialect 235

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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