Chapter I: Front Matter

THE POEMS OF BEATTIE.

THE
POETICAL WORKS
OF
JAMES BEATTIE.

WITH A
MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,
BY REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.

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LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY.

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CONTENTS.

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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