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The Sky-lark.

The Nightingale

Bloomfield

The Nightingale and the Rose. From the Persian.

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The departure of the Nightingale

The return of the Nightingale................................

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The Squirrel. Smith

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comes. Silk. Smith

Trees and Plants

The early Butterfly. Smith.........

The Nautilus. Smith

An Evening Walk by the Sea-side. Smith

The Humming Bird. Smith

By Patience and Labour, the Mulberry Leaf be-

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The Happy Man. Thomson

Invitation to the Feathered Race

Solitude. Pope

Friendship, Love, and Truth

The Maroon Negro

The Ship on Fire

Oasis in the Desert

The Moon and the Comet

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The Bee, the Ant, and the Sparrow. Cotton

The Two Diamonds

The Butterfly and the Snail.

The Primrose and the Bramble

The Turkey and the Ant. Gay.

Waking from a frightful Dream

Morning, Evening, Night. Milton

Dawn of Day. Thomson.........

Sun Rising. Thomson.

The Sun. Thomson....

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Creation of the World, finished and surveyed.

Milton

Adam's account of his first Sensations and Con-

sciousness

Adam and Eve in Paradise. Milton

Morning Hymn of Adam and Eve. Milton......

Noon. Thomson

The Storm. Southey

Ossian's Hymn to the Sun

The Wish

To a Lonely Brook

The Mid-day Retreat. Thomson

Evening. Milton..........

Song of the Evening Hour

Invocation to Evening. Cowper......

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Prospect of the World from the Retreat of Home.

The Post-boy. Cowper

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Evening succeeded by Night. Thomson

Twilight. Bloomfield

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Evening Village Sounds. Goldsmith

Ode to Evening. Collins.........

Evening Solitude.

Milton

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Night. Young

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Day and Night. Gay

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Midnight. Akenside......

Moonlight. Pope's Homer........

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Moon obscured by Clouds.

Walter Scott

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The Whirlwind. Dryden

A tempestuous Night near the Sea.........

Night favourable to Virtue and Meditation.

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Young

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Cowper

Spring Shower.

Summer.

Thomson

Thomson.....

Spring. Thomson..

Spring advancing. Bloomfield........

Sheep and Lambs. Bloomfield

Variety of Prospect pleasing. Crazy Kate.

Ode to Spring. Mrs. Barbauld

The Rainbow........

Summer Occupations. Bloomfield.

Summer Evening Walk. White.....................

Sheep-shearing. Thomson

Sicilian Earthquake. Cowper......

Waterfall. Thomson

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Autumnal Storm. Stawell's Georgics of Virgil... 146

Hogs in the Forest. Bloomfield..

Autumnal Country Employments and Exercises.

Beginning of Winter. Thomson.......................................................

Winter Evening. Cowper

The Farmer lost in the Snow. Thomson

The Winter Morning Walk. Cowper

Winter Walk at Noon...........................................................................................

The Frozen Shower. Phillips