Chapter I: Front Matter

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POEMS.

POEMS.

BY

WILLIAM ANDERSON.

Now First Collected.

EDINBURGH:
J. MENZIES, 61, PRINCES STREET.
1845.

EDINBURGH:

AW. MURRAY, PRINTER, MILNE SQUARE.

TO

HENRY EDWARDS, D.D., PH.D.,

AUTHOR OF

"PIETY AND INTELLECT RELATIVELY ESTIMATED," "CHRISTIAN
HUMILITY," AND SEVERAL OTHER WORKS OF MERIT.

THIS VOLUME

IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS SINCERE FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

LANDSCAPE LYRICS.

I. Sunrise, 7

II. Morning farther advanced, 10

III. Noonday, 13

IV. The Sunbeam, 16

V. To a Wild Flower, 19

VI. Summer, 22

VII. Midsummer, 25

VIII. The Sunshine of Poetry, 28

IX. Autumn, in its First Aspect, 31

X. Autumn, in its Second Aspect, 34

XI. Sunset, 37

XII. Twilight, 40

XIII. Moonlight on Land, 43

XIV. Moonlight at Sea, 46

XV. Home Scenes, 49

POETICAL ASPIRATIONS.

The Alpine Horn, 55

Reflections on Death, 58

Through the Wood.--Modern Ballad, 62

Song of the Exile, 64

To Fame, 66

To a Bee, 68

The Storm, 71

"Lazarus, Come Forth," 73

Sonnet. On the Approach of Summer, 74

Beauty, 75

To M. J. R., 76

Sonnet. A Contrast, 77

Sonnet. Roslin, 78

On the Birth of a Niece, 79

On her death, 80

Sonnet. To Happiness, 81

Thoughts, 82

Loch Awe, 85

The Wolf, 87

The April Cloud, 94

Spring, 95

Poesy, 97

Sonnet. To a Friend of the Author, 100

The Gipsy's Lullaby, 101

Woodland Song, 102

Sonnet. The Ocean, 104

Mount Horeb, 105

Written beneath an Elm, 111

The Wells o' Weary, 115

Dryburgh Abbey, 116

POEMS HERE FIRST COLLECTED.

Grace, 119

Matin, 121

Immortality, 122

Lines. On the Death of John Sinclair, Esq.,
Edinburgh, 125

Weep not for the Dead, 127

Idols, 129

Truth, 132

Sabbath Morn, 133

Sabbath Eve, 134

Dreams of the Living, 135

Lines, 139

Sonnets Written on Viewing Danby's Picture
of the Deluge, 140

Thought, 142

Lines Written on the Attempted Assassination
of the Queen, July 1840, 143

Song.--"I'm Naebody Noo," 147

Song. "There's Plenty Come to Woo me," 149

The Stout Old British Ship, 151

Lines on the Infant Son and Daughter of Hon.
Col. Montague, 154

The Martyrs, 156

Caledonia, My Country, 158

Song. "I Canna Sleep," 160

Song. "Yonder Sunny Brae," 162

THE EAGLE'S NEST, AND OTHER POEMS, HERE FIRST
PRINTED.

The Eagle's Nest, 167

The Advent of Truth, 179

Lines Suggested by a Walk in a Garden, 182

Sonnet. Sunshine, 187

Song. "At E'ening when the Kye war in," 188

Stanzas on a Bust of Marshal Ney, 191

Winter, 194

Human Conduct, 197

Courtship Lines, 210

Love-Weakness, 211

Lines to the Rev. Henry Dudley Ryder, on
reading his "Angelicon," 213

The Poet, 216

Light and Shadow, 223

The Early Dead, 226

A Dirge, 229

A Benediction, 231

Health, 233

The Game of Life, 235

Consumption, 237

Change, 238

Virtue, 241

Vain Hopes, 243

The Valley of Life, 245

After Thought, 251

NOTES, 255

LANDSCAPE LYRICS.

(SECOND EDITION.)

TO

THE REV. HENRY DUDLEY RYDER,

CANON RESIDENTIARY OF LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL,

THIS VOLUME OF LANDSCAPE LYRICS,

AS

A MARK OF RESPECT FOR HIS VIRTUES,

OF ADMIRATION OF HIS GENIUS,

AND IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE PLEASANT HOURS PASSED IN HIS SOCIETY,

IS INSCRIBED,

BY HIS FRIEND,

THE AUTHOR.