Sir Walter Scott, English Minstrelsy. Being a selection of fugitive poetry from the best English authors; with some original pieces hitherto unpublished. 2 Volumes (Edinburgh: John Ballantyne and Co., 1810)
Information about the collection: Authors and titles are listed above the poems; there are no headnotes or footnotes or any other editorial apparatus; astericks in the second volume denote an "original" article; the collection seems to be a good example of a miscellany [volume 1] [volume 2]
Table of Contents:
On Modern Poetry | . . . . . . | Phin. Fletcher |
Female Fickleness | . . . . . . | The same |
Sonnet | . . . . . . | Drummond |
Epitaph on Husband and Wife | . . . . . . | Crashaw |
On Shakespeare | . . . . . . | Davenant |
Song | . . . . . . | The same |
On Isabella Markham | . . . . . . | Harrington |
Melancholy | . . . . . . | Fletcher |
River God's Courtship | . . . . . . | The same |
Song on May Morning | . . . . . . | Milton |
To the Nightingale | . . . . . . | The same |
On the expected Assault | . . . . . . | The same |
Acme and Septimus, from CAtullus | . . . . . . | Cowley |
On a Girdle | . . . . . . | Waller |
Sleep | . . . . . . | Sir J. Denham |
Imitation of Horace | . . . . . . | Dryden |
Hymn to Contentment | . . . . . . | Parnell |
To Sir Godfrey Kneller | . . . . . . | Addison |
Cupid and Ganymede | . . . . . . | Prior |
The Quidnunki's | . . . . . . | Gay |
On the Death of Cadogan | . . . . . . | Tickell |
Elegy | . . . . . . | A. Phillips |
To an Infant | . . . . . . | Thomson |
Ode | . . . . . . | Hamilton |
The Flower of Yarrow | . . . . . . | Collins |
Ode to Pity | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode to Fear | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode to Simplicity | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode to Evening | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode on Popular Superstitions | . . . . . . | The same |
Additional Stanzas | . . . . . . | W. Erskine |
The Dying Kid | . . . . . . | Shenstone |
To the Gentlemen of England, 1758 | . . . . . . | Akenside |
Inscription for a Statue of Chaucer | . . . . . . | The same |
For a Bust of Shakespeare | . . . . . . | The same |
Invocation | . . . . . . | The same |
Epitaph | . . . . . . | Gray |
Song | . . . . . . | Goldsmith |
Song | . . . . . . | The same |
The Tears of Scotland | . . . . . . | Smollet |
Ode to Independence | . . . . . . | Smollet |
To Shakespeare | . . . . . . | Thomson |
On Thomson's Seasons | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
The Evening Primrose | . . . . . . | Langhorne |
The Wall Flower | . . . . . . | The same |
The Helmets | . . . . . . | Penrose |
The Carousal of Odin | . . . . . . | The same |
To a young Lady | . . . . . . | Mickle |
The Mexican Prophecy | . . . . . . | John Scott |
On the Death of Robert Levett | . . . . . . | Johnson |
The Battle of Argoed Llyfain | . . . . . . | Whitehead |
Ode to the Cuckoo | . . . . . . | Logan |
On the Death of a young Lady | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode on the Grave of King Arthur | . . . . . . | Warton |
Birth-day Ode, 1787 | . . . . . . | The same |
Ode for the New Year, 1788 | . . . . . . | The same |
The Fireside | . . . . . . | Cotton |
The Resolve | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
Thomson's grave | . . . . . . | Collins |
Fragment | . . . . . . | Thomson |
On a ruined Edifice | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
Song | . . . . . . | The same |
To the cruel Lady of the Mountains | . . . . . . | The same |
The Negro's Funeral | . . . . . . | Edwards |
Duncan's Warning | . . . . . . | Aiken |
The Babes in the Wood | . . . . . . | Jerningham |
Castle Building, an Elegy | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
A Vow to Fortune | . . . . . . | Mrs. Hunter |
On seeing the Picture of a Female Qua- ker in the character of Winter |
. . . . . . | Anonymous |
The Grotto | . . . . . . | Sheridan |
To a Lady | . . . . . . | Lounger |
Song from Hafiz | . . . . . . | Sir W. Jones |
Fete Champetre | . . . . . . |
The same |
Hunting Song | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
Song of Morrice Dancers | . . . . . . | Strutt |
Queen Orraca, (Original) | . . . . . . | Southey |
A Fragment | . . . . . . | Mallet |
Ode to Summer | . . . . . . | Warton |
Prayer to Indifference | . . . . . . | Mrs. Grenville |
The Parish Clerk | . . . . . . | Vernon |
Life, an Ode | . . . . . . |
Hawkesworth |
A Moral Thought | . . . . . . | The same |
Monody | . . . . . . | Shaw |
To the Nightingale | . . . . . . | The same |
The Three Warnings | . . . . . . | Mrs. Thrale |
The Beggar | . . . . . . | Sir J. Morris |
Retirement | . . . . . . | Beattie |
The Hermit | . . . . . . | The same |
Hallow my Fancy | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
A Dirge | . . . . . . | Chatterton |
Lapland Song | . . . . . . | Pickering |
Independence | . . . . . . | Thomas Day |
To Chatterton | . . . . . . | Anonymous |
Elegy from the Irish of Ryan | . . . . . . | Eliza Brooke |
On some Names in the Biographia Bri- tannica |
. . . . . . | Cowper |
Ode to Peace | . . . . . . | The same |
The Jackdaw | . . . . . . | The same |
The Shrubbery | . . . . . . | The same |
Elegy | . . . . . . | W. Gifford |
To the Rev. John Ireland | . . . . . . | The same |
Fragment | . . . . . . | Coleridge |
* Verses written at the Island of Sugar | . . . . . . | Leyden |
* Portuguese Hymn to the Virgin Mary | . . . . . . | The same |
* Ode to an Indian Gold Coin | . . . . . . | The same |
To the Invisible Girl | . . . . . . | T. Moore |
The Gipsey | . . . . . . | Wolcott |
The Huntsman's Dirge | . . . . . . | Waldron |
On Warton | . . . . . . | Huddesford |
Lines found in a Bower facing the South |
. . . . . . | Smythe |
To Hope | . . . . . . | Williams |
* On a Black Marble Bowl that belong- ed to Burns |
. . . . . . | Braine |
* Volunteer Song | . . . . . . | R. Heber |
The Death of True Love | . . . . . . | Spencer |
* To ****** | . . . . . . | The same |
* Epitaph on the Year 1806 | . . . . . . | The same |
To Laura | . . . . . . | D'Israeli |
Song | . . . . . . | A. McDonald |
* To Sleep | . . . . . . | Dr. Currie |
* With Flowers from a Roman Wall | . . . . . . | Walter Scott |
* The Bard's Incantations | . . . . . . | The same |
* The Violet | . . . . . . | The same |
Song | . . . . . . | G. Canning |
Song | . . . . . . | The same |
Caroline. Part I | . . . . . . | T. Campbell |
Caroline. Part II. | . . . . . . | The same |
* Evening, Night, and Morning | . . . . . . | Mrs. Hunter |
* To the Memory of Cowper | . . . . . . | The same |
On the Approach of Winter | . . . . . . | Westall |
* The Nymph of the Stream | . . . . . . | Mrs. Hunter |
* To the Primrose | . . . . . . | The same |
Sonnet | . . . . . . | Sotheby |
Persius, a Vision | . . . . . . | Drummond |
* The Shades of Colisfield | . . . . . . | Mrs. Hunter |
* The Poet to the Muse | . . . . . . | Edw. Coxe |
* The Banks of Esk | . . . . . . | Richardson |
* Love | . . . . . . | Southey |
* To *** on the Death of her Sister | . . . . . . | Rogers |
* The Kitten | . . . . . . | Joanna Baillie |
The Heathcock | . . . . . . | The same |
Song | . . . . . . | The same |
* Ellen | . . . . . . | Smythe |
* War Song | . . . . . . | Jas. Grahame |
On visiting Tintern Abbey | . . . . . . | Wordsworth |