THE

POETICAL WORKS

OP

COLLINS,

GRAY, AND BEATTIE.

WITH A MEMOIR OF EACH.

BOSTON:

PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, AND COMPANY,

110 Washington Street.

TO COLLINS'S POEMS.

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The Life of Collins

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ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.

Eclogue I. Selim; or, the Shepherd's Moral 9

II. Hassan; or, the Camel-driver

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III. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana 14

IV. Agib and Secander; or, the Fugitives 16

Odes, descriptive and allegorical.

To Pity

19

To Fear

To Simplicity

23

On the Poetical Character

24

Written in the Year 1746

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To Mercy

ib.

To Liberty

28

To a Lady

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To Evening

35

To Peace.

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The Manners. An Ode

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The Passions. An Ode for Music

40

An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition

of Shakspeare's Works

43

Dirge in Cymbeline

48

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

49

Verses written on a Paper containing a Piece of

Bride-cake

51

An Ode on the popular Superstitions of the High-

lands of Scotland