CONTENTS. Page Martial Elegy.-From the Greek of Tyrtæus. Fragment. From the Greek of Alcman. Specimens of Translations from Medea.. Speech of the Chorus, in the same Tragedy.... O'Connor's Child; or, “ The Flower of Love lies Bleeding".83 Stanzas to the Memory of the Spanish Patriots latest killed in resisting the Regency and the Duke of Angou- Song of the Greeks.. Lines spoken by Mrs. Bartley at Drury-Lane Theatre, on the first opening of the House after the Death of the Lines on the Grave of a Suicide. The Lover to his Mistress on her Birth-Day. Lines on receiving a Seal with the Campbell Crest, from Stanzas on the Battle of Navarino.... Lines on revisiting a Scottish River.. The “ Name Unknown;" in imitation of Klopstock. Lines on the Camp Hill, near Hastings. A Thought suggested by the New Year. Song—“How delicious is the winning" Lines on leaving a Scene in Bavaria. . The Death-Boat of Heligoland...... Song—“When Love came first to Earth" Song—"Earl March looked on his Dying Child”. .287 Song—“When Napoleon was flying".. Lines to Julia M- sent with a copy of the Author's Lines on the Departure of Emigrants for New South Wales.291 Lines on revisiting Cathcart....... ..301 To Sir Francis Burdett, on his Speech delivered in Par- liament, August 7, 1832, respecting the Foreign Policy of Great Britain.. .302 Ode to the Germans.. 304 Lines on a Picture of a Girl in the attitude of Prayer, by the Artist Gruse, in the possession of Lady Stepney....306 Lines on the View from St. Leonard's...... 808 The Dead Eagle.-Written at Oran. 314 Song—“To Love in my Heart”. 818 Lines written in a blank leaf of La Perouse's Voyages...320 The Pilgrim of Glencoe. 323 Napoleon and the British Sailor. .. 349 Benlomond... ..852 The Child and Hind. .853 The Jilted Nymph. .360 On getting home the Portrait of a Female Child. ......862 Song of the Colonists departing for New Zealand. Cora Linn, or the Falls of the Clyde. Lines suggested by the Statue of Arnold von Winkelried..373 To the United States of North America. Lines on my new Child-sweetheart.. To my Niece, Mary Campbell.. 385 APPENDIX. The Dirge of Wallace. .387 Notes ... ..389 * "I sit down to take a retrospect of my life. Why should the task make me sad ? Have I not many blessings and many friends ? Yes! thanks to God, very many. But life, when we look back upon it, has also many painful recollections ; and pain, when viewed either as past or to come, makes a deeper impression on the imagination than either the past pleasures or comforts of life that can be recalled. In the remembrance of our lives we are like unfair tradesmen, who omit a part of their debts in their balance of accounts. We resign ourselves to forget-myriads of the easy, tranquil, or even pleasing though anxious hours of our being ; but for an hour of pain we make a large charge in our estimate of compared misery and happiness. I do not think that it is a fair argument to urge against individual-comparative happiness, that because most of us, if the question were put Would you wish to spend your life over again ?- would probably say-No, * Retrospect of life, written by himself. |
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