#Scots
Let no presuming impious railer ta… Creative wisdom, as if aught was f… In vain, or not for admirable ends… Shall little haughty ignorance pro… His works unwise, of which the sma…
My trembling muse your honour does… That it’s a bold attempt most humb… If you’ll encourage her young fagg… She’ll upwards soar and mount Par… If little things with great may be…
Crown’d with the sickle and the wh… While Autumn, nodding o’er the ye… Comes jovial on; the Doric reed o… Well pleased, I tune. Whate’er th… Nitrous prepared; the various blos…
Come, gentle God of soft desire, Come and possess my happy breast, Not fury-like in flames and fire, Or frantic folly’s wildness dresse… But come in friendship’s angel-gui…
Sweet valley, say, where, pensive… For me, our children, England, si… The best of mortals leans his head… Ye fountains, dimpled by my sorrow… Ye brooks that my complainings bor…
First Spirit. Hear, Alfred, father of the state… Thy genius Heaven’s high will dec… What proves the hero truly great, Is never, never to despair:
Accept, loved Nymph, this tribute… To tender friendship, love, and yo… But with it take what breathed the… O take to thine the poet’s soul. If Fancy here her power displays,
Go, little book, and find our Fri… Who Nature and the Muses loves, Who cares the public virtues blend With all the softness of the grove… A fitter time thou canst not choos…
The stag, too, singled from the he… He ranged, the branching monarch o… Before the tempest drives. At fir… He, sprightly, puts his faith, and… Gives all his swift aerial soul to…
See where the winding vale its lav… Irriguous, spreads. See, how the… The latent rill, scarce oozing thr… In fair profusion, decks. Long le… Where the breeze blows from yon ex…
Now, by the cool, declining year c… Descend the copious exhalations, c… As up the middle sky unseen they s… And roll the doubling fogs around… No more the mountain, horrid, vast…
When from the opening chambers of… The morning springs, in thousand l… The early larks their morning trib… And, in shrill notes, salute the b… Refreshed fields with pearly dew d…
When my breast labours with oppres… And o’er my cheek descends the fal… While all my warring passions are… Oh! let me listen to the words of… Raptures deep-felt his doctrine di…
Smooth to the shelving brink a cop… Rolls fair and placid: where colle… In one impetuous torrent down the… It thundering shoots, and shakes t… At first, an azure sheet, it rushe…
In one diffusive band, They drive the troubled flocks, by… Compell’d to where the mazy-runnin… Forms a deep pool; this bank abrup… And that fair-spreading in a pebbl…