The Nymph of the Fountain to Charlotte ........278

Answer to a Poetical Epistle from an intimate

Friend....

........282

To His Royal Highness the Duke of York, with

an Invalid Soldier's Petition................286

Sent to a Young Nobleman, with a Pair of Garters

wrought by an Highland Woman in the 101st

Year of her Age...........290

To Miss Wallis, with a Sprig of Crimson Heath,

which grew on the Summit of a Mountain......294

An Ode, on reading one on the same subject by

Professor Richardson of Glasgow ............298

Answer to a Poetical Apology sent by Professor

M'Leod of Glasgow to some Ladies who had

invited him to an Oyster-Feast.303
Hymn for the Sons of the Clergy............P. 309

To the Memory of a Young Lady who died near

Inverness in the 21st Year of her Age, August

1776......

To a Young Lady deeply interested in the Subject

of the Poem.

..

..312

......314

To Lady Clan, who insisted on the Author's writ-

ing a Poem on meeting, by appointment with

her and three other Ladies at an Inn on the

Road betwixt Perth and Laggan.............320

Ode to Hygeia:-Addressed to the late Mrs Wil-

liam Sprott, Edinburgh. Spring 1779........331

To Miss Dunbar of Boath..

..............334

Inscription for a Garden-seat. Sacred to the

Remembrance of a beloved Friend, Miss A.

Ο****, 1774.

..........337

On reading Manuscript Poems by a Young Lady,

not in the Manner but in the Spirit of Collins. 339

Written in one of the Duke of Atholl's walks at

Blair, after making a clandestine entrance

through the River Tilt, Summer 1796........341

Peaceful Shades.

.......

..........344

Nilecrankie: or, The French Expedition to Egypt 410

Glossary to Ditto.

.....413

Subscribers, Names

.......415

ALPHABETICAL INDEX

OF THE

FIRST LINES OF THE POEMS.

AWFUL and stern the rugged entrance low'rs P. 200
All hail! ye frowning terrors of my way......204
Awak'd to thought matur'd by age...314
Blest was the Chief, who, full of days and fame 221

Come, then, explore with me each winding glen..31

Com'st thou with swift wing in thy strength, O

wind!...

.372

Dear Nancy, well you know my way........ ..161

Dear lowly cottage, o'er whose humble thatch ....208

Dear Beatrice, with pleasure I read your kind

letter..

:

........236

Dear Lady Clan, you well may know

.........

..320

Daughter of exercise and calm content.......

.331

Far to the North the howling tempest drove......21

Hear, princely youth, th' unletter'd rustic muse..290

How blest those olive plants that grew. ........309

Now, hark! what loud tumultuous joys resound...45
Now Winter pours his terrors o'er the plain......57

Now, when the thunder of dread war is o'er.....219

Oh! soft and sweet the evening sun........

Oh! lay me by yon peaceful stream

.......

..145

..395

Oh! where, tell me where, is your Highland

Laddie gone?.....

......407

Sacred to thee and friendly love

The vanquish'd Prince, for safety forc'd to fly.....79

Tho' long by fate's severe decree remov'd.......247

While on the meadowy banks of Spey......... .139

What adverse fate awaits the tuneful train!.....261

....

........

..337

What voice awakes the soul-afflicting theme?...298

When FINGAL dwelt in windy halls,

.393

What sound of woe from yonder grove.........312

When THOMSON's harp, of charming tone..... .339

When WILLY PITT, as he thought fit.........410

VALLESIA, whose illustrious blood...

Yes, even amid these wilds forlorn.

............

...........

Your jealous walls, great Duke, in vain

....

.266

.282

.341

Ye peaceful shades, that guard my dear lov'd home 344

NOTE.-Page 17 immediately follows p. 10., owing
to the circumstance of its being presumed, when the
Poems were put to press, that the Title, Contents,
Alphabetical Index, &c, would occupy full 16 pages.