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Lyrics from the Older Writers :-
1. The Songs of Birds

Lyly .
2. The Fairy's Song

Shukspere
3. Winter

id.
4. Ingratitude

id.
5. The Reveillé

id.
6. Ariel's Song

id.
7. Amien's Song .

id.
Hymn to Diana

B. Jonson
9. To Fancy, at Night.

id.
10. To Blossoms

Herrick
11. To Daffodils

id.
Man of Ross, the .

Pope :
March

Cornelius Weble
Martyrs, the

Cowper
May, to

Wordsuorth
May Morning

Milton
Medal, the .

Pop"

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Memory of the Brave, to the

Collins
Memory of Thomson, to the

Burns
Messiah, the

Pope :
Metrical Feet

Coleridge
Mitherless Bairn, the

Thom
Moonlight Night, a .

Southey
Moral Maxims, Epigrams, &c.
Mother's Sacrifice, the .

Mrs. Sigourney
Mountain Daisy, to a

Burns
Mouse, to a

id.
Music on the Waters
New Moon, the

Bryant
Night

Montgomery
Nightingale, to the

Drummond.
Ocean, the

Byron
Ode on a distant prospect of Eton Col-
lege

Gray.
Ode on the Spring

id.
Ode to Evening

Collins
Old Age .

Waller
Omnipresence of God, the .

Moore
“ On the receipt of my Mother's Pic-
ture

Cowper
Ovidian Elegiac Metre Exemplified Coleridge
Palace of Ice, the

Cowper
Past, to the

Bryant
Patriotism.

Walter Scott
Pleasure arising from Vicissitude, the. Gray.
Pleasures of Retirement, the .

Drummond
Poet, the

Cowper
Poet, on his Blindness, the

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Prayer for Divine Aid

Merrick.
Pride and Humility.

Cowper
Procession of Rivers, the

Spenser
Providence.

From Filicaja
Psalm of Life, a

Longfellow
Rainbow, to the

Campbell
Rival Statesmen, the

Walter Scott
Rule Britannia

Thomson
Samson's Lament

Milton
School Days

Cowper
Sennacherib's Army, the Destruction of Byron
Skylark, to a

Wordsworth
Sleep, to

Shakspere
Sleeping Babe, the

Hinds
Solemn Music, at a

Milton
Solitude.

Byron
Solitude.

Mrs. Sigourney
Song for the Wandering Jew .

Wordsworth
Sonnet on Chapman's Homer.

Keate
South African Desert, the .

Pringle
Spanish Armada, the

Macaulay
Spanish Bull-fight, a

Byron
Spanish Champion, the.

Mrs. Hemans .
Spring

T. Warton .
Star of Bethlehem, the :

Kirke JV hite
Startled Stag, the

Walter Scott
Stonehenge

T. Warton .
Swimming

Thomson
Tear, on a

Rogers
Thames, the

Denham.
Thames and its Tributaries, the . Pope
Thermopylæ

Byron
Time's Song
Tranquillity of Nature

Wordsworth
Traveller's Hymn, the .

Addison,
Twilight

Wordsworth
Vanity of Human Wishes, the

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POEMS AND EXTRACTS,

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTICES.

STUDIES

IN

ENGLISH POETRY.

PART I,

Miscellaneous Poems and Extracts.

PRAYER FOR DIVINE AID.
AUTHOR of Good! to thee I turn :

Thy ever-wakeful eye
Alone can all my wants discern,

Thy hand alone supply.
Oh let thy fear within me dwell,

Thy love my footsteps guide !
That love shall meaner loves expel,

That fear all fears beside.?
And oh! by Error's force subdued,

Since oft my stubborn will,3
Preposterous, shuns the latent good,

And grasps the specious ill ;4
Not to my wish, but to my want,

Do thou thy gifts apply;
Unasked, what good thou knowest, grant;
What ill, though asked, deny.

Merrick.

(1) Thy love, &c.--Jet my love towards thee (not thy love towards me) guide my footsteps, i.e. influence my actions.

(2) The line in Racine's “ Athalie” in which Joad says. “Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte,” has been deservedly admired, but the above expression conveys the same sentiment with at least equal force.

(3) And oh! &c.-i.e. and oh! since my stubborn will, subdued by the foree of error, often preposterously shuns, &c.

(4) Specious - from the Latin species, an appearance; hence specious ill is evil which has the appearance of good.

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