POETICAL WORKS

of

WY COLLINS, THO GRAY, AND DE BEATTIE.

with LORD BYRON'S HOURS OF IDLENESS and

English Bards & Scotch Reviewers

POETICAL WORKS

OF

COLLINS, GRAY, AND BEATTIE:

WITH

LORD BYRON'S

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS, HOURS OF IDLENESS, &c. &c.

Baynes and Son, Paternoster Row; J. Hearne, Strand; Smith and Elder, Fenchurch Street; J. Bain, Mews' Gate; W. Mason, Pickett Street; Westley and Parrish, Strand; Lawler and Quick, Old Broad Street; T. Lester, Finsbury Place; J. Arnould, Spring Gardens; R. Baynes, Paternoster Row; C. Rice, Mount Street: M. Iley, Somerset Street; J. F. Setchel, King Street; Dulau and Co. Soho Square; W. Booth, Duke Street; E. Wheatley, Leicester Square; R. Hoffman, Strand; H. Steel, Tower Hill; J. Murray, Coventry Street; G. Roake, Strand; W. Marsh, Oxford Street; P. Wright, Broad Street; Wilson and Sons, York; H. Mozley, Derby; M. Keene, J. Cumming, C. P. Archer, and R. M. Tims, Dublin; and H. S. Baynes, Edinburgh.

1824.

Printed by J. F. Dove, St. John's Square.

CONTENTS

TO COLLINS'S POEMS.

The Life of Collins

ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.

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

II. Hassan; or, the Camel-driver

III. Abra; or, the Georgian Sultana

IV. Agib and Secander; or, the Fugitives

ODES, descriptive and allegorical.

To Pity

36

39

45

47

48

The Passions. An Ode for Music

An Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer, on his Edition of

Shakspeare's Works

Ode on the Death of Mr. Thomson

Verses written on a Paper containing a Piece of Bride-

cake

An Ode on the popular Superstitions of the Highlands

of Scotland