BY
JAMES MIDDLETON SUTHERLAND.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
"Poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation."-Bacon."Go, little book, from this my solitude !
I cast thee on the waters-go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The world will find thee after many days." SOUTBEY.
DOUGLAS:
BROWN & SON, "TIMES" BUILDINGS, ATHOL-ST.
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OCCASIONAL POEMS:- |
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Summer Longings, . |
28 |
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Manxiana . |
33 |
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To the Sea, |
38 |
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Lines on an Infant Sleeping, |
41 |
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The Lost Loved One, . |
43 |
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Night, . |
46 |
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I would I were, Sweet Maiden Mine ! |
48 |
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Sir Bedivere.-A Romance, |
50 |
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Sweets, |
53 |
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Deep, Deep, Deep, . |
54 |
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A" Lover's Rhapsody, . |
55 |
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The Lover.-A Dramatic Sketch, |
56 |
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Spring-An Invocation, . |
59 |
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The Farloln Maiden, . |
61 |
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To Myrill&, |
64 |
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Ah ! Think not because I am Absent from Thee, |
65 |
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The Blighted Bud, |
66 |
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Heliotrope, . |
68 |
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Prologue, . |
69 |
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The Old Churchyard: Kirk Braddan, |
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To a Lady, . |
73 |
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Stray Cuttings- |
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Love, . |
75 |
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Perfection in Woman, |
75 |
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A Lover's Description of His Idol, |
76 |
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In Love, . |
76 |
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Love-A Madness, |
77 |
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A Summer's Night, |
77 |
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Woman, |
78 |
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Address Poetry, |
80 |
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Love, . |
83 |
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My Own Sweet Phyllis, Take My Heart, . |
84 |
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On the Bridge, |
85 |
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Believe Me, Love, They're Right Who Say, . |
87 |
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Sweets to the Sweet, . |
89 |
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Tbe Departure of Summer, |
92 |
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94 |
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Childhood, |
96 |
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Birthday Verses, |
99 |
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Dreams, |
101 |
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Mona's Isle.-An Acrostic, |
104 |
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Loving-Kindness, |
105 |
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A Lover's Vow, . |
107 |
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Sunrise, . |
108 |
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Summer, . |
109 |
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Tbe Angel of Death, |
111 |
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The Ideal, . |
114 |
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To a Young Lady on Her Birthday, |
116 |
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Spring is Coming, |
118 |
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Stanzas to * * * . |
120 |
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April, |
121 |
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Sweet Lady Mine ! This Verse Accept, |
123 |
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Shakspere, |
125 |
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The Power of Virtue, . |
131 |
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The Lake of Como.-Morning, |
132 |
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A Description of a Beauty, |
134 |
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On the Skates, |
135 |
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Mona's Isle, |
137 |
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Poet's Farewell to the Muses, |
140 |
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Sweet Girl! I Often Think How Blest, |
143 |
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Love-Tokens, |
145 |
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A Bouquet, |
148 |
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Tbe Reveille, |
150 |
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The Maiden'g Confession, . |
152 |
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The Bachelors Soliloquy, . |
154 |
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Sonnet.-Evening, . |
156 |
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A Maiden Poet, |
157 |
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To My Valentine, . |
160 |
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A Persian Lover to His Mistress, |
162 |
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To a Lady, With some Flowers |
164 |
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On a Similar Occasion, |
164 |
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Leander to Hero, . |
165 |
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Ellan Vannin, |
166 |
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POEMS-IN MEMORIAM:- |
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Alfred Buckingham Curphey, |
167 |
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Eliza Ann Turner; |
172 |
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Frederick William Johnson, . |
174 |
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John Frederick Sutherland, . |
176 |
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Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, E.G., |
179 |
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LEGENDS OF ELLAN VANNIN:- |
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The Enchanted Island, |
180 |
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The Mauthe Dhoo, |
188 |
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SACRED POEMS:- |
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Missionary Hymn, |
193 |
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Domine Protege Nos. |
195 |
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Hymn on the Passion, |
197 |
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Hymn for Easter Sunday, |
199 |
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Venite, Exultemus Domino, |
201 |
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Tutus in Undis, |
203 |
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Christian Warfare |
205 |
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Belshazzar's Feast |
207 |
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There is a Home Above, |
211 |
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Eventide, . |
213 |
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POEMS FOR CEIRISTMAS AND THE OLD YEAR:- |
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An Honest Christmas Carol, |
215 |
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Christmas Bells, . |
218 |
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Christmas Stars, . |
220 |
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Christmas Eve, . |
222 |
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Christmas, . |
224 |
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A Happy Christmas |
226 |
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Welcome to Christmas, |
228 |
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The Dying Year, |
229 |
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EARLIER POEMS:- |
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Sonnet: Morning, . |
231 |
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Evening, |
232 |
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Life Compared to a Flower, |
233 |
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Spring |
235 |
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The Beauties of Nature, . |
237 |
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Leaves of Trees, |
239 |
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The Sabbath Morn in May, |
242 |
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Evening. |
243 |
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The Wanderer's Lament, . |
245 |
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Spring Morning, . |
247 |
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Sie Vita, |
249 |
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Woman, |
251 |
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To a Lark, |
253 |
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Partings, |
255 |
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Lovely Mona, |
257 |
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Sunrise, |
259 |
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Requiescant in Pace, |
261 |
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Pleasures, . |
264 |
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Serenade, . |
266 |
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Summer, . |
267 |
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The Maiden to the Sea, |
269 |
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The Rest in the (brave, |
271 |
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Love, |
273 |
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Woman's Love, . |
275 |
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Flowers, . |
277 |
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Lines to . |
279 |
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The Queen of Flowers, |
280 |
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The Reveille . |
281 |
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I Think, Love, of Thee |
282 |
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The Dying Hour, |
284 |
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Homeward, |
286 |
[Note only two of the many poems in the collections are given]
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