AND
OTHER POEMS
BY G.,
Author of "THE LOMOND HILLS," &c., &c.
"Scribimus indocti doctique poemata passim."
CUPAR _ FIFE:
PRINTED IN THE FIFESHIRE JOURNAL OFFICE.
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1881
PREFACE.
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It is not without hesitation that I venture to
publish this _ my fifth _ volume, but I have been asked to take this step
by friends who have heard certain of my Ballads read in public, and because
I hope that the Ballads may in themselves possess a certain amount of interest,
seeing that they mainly refer to Scottish historical events. The other
pieces have all, or nearly all, been previously published, but not in a
collected form.
G.
1. Dunsinnan
2. Young Wallace
3. The Bruce,
4. Rothesay:
The Queen's Warning,
The Widow's Plaint,
5. James I.,
6. Sir Patrick Gray
7. The King and the Douglas
8. The Ban of Douglas
9. My Ladye Somerville
10. Young Ramsay of Balmain
11. Soliloquy of King James IV.,
12. Margaret Drummond,
13. The Setons of Clato,
14. James V. and the
Miller,
15. Death of James V.,
16. The Murder of David Rizzio,
17. James VI.,
18. The Archway of Falkland Palace,
19. A Scotsman's Address to the Coronation
Chair and the Scottish Stone
in Westminster Abbey,
20. Twelve Letters on every day Subjects,
viz.: --
1. To
a Boy about to leave Home for School,
2. Interference,
3. Pride,
4. Showing
how Tastes may Vary,
5. Speculation,
6. Endurance,
7. Selfishness
not an Unmixed Evil,
8. Change,
9. Toleration,
10. Adversity,
11. Cui Bono
?,
12. "De
Gustibus non disputandum,"
21. A Metropolitan Power,
22. The Legend of Loch Maree,
23. Nemesis,
24. Hercules,
25. The Redbreast,
Verses suggested
by a chance perusal of Extracts from Jean Paul, viz.: --
Censure
- Death - A
Butterfly in Church,
Repentance
- Contrrast - Religion,
Forgiveness
- Affflictions.
I'd love to have you drop by!--Barbara
