The Poetical Works of William Collins; With a Memoir
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Chapters (79)
- THE Poetical Works OF WILLIAM COLLINS.
- CONTENTS.
- MEMOIR OF COLLINS.
- AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS AND POEMS OF COLLINS.
- ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.
- WRITTEN ORIGINALLY FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF THE LADIES OF TAURIS.
- PREFACE.
- ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.
- ECLOGUE I.
- SELIM; OR, THE SHEPHERD’S MORAL.
- ECLOGUE II.
- HASSAN; OR, THE CAMEL DRIVER.
- ECLOGUE III.
- ABRA; OR, THE GEORGIAN SULTANA.
- ECLOGUE IV.
- AGIB AND SECANDER; OR, THE FUGITIVES.
- ODES
- ON SEVERAL DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL SUBJECTS.
- ODES.
- ODE TO PITY.
- ODE TO FEAR.
- ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
- ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER.
- ODE,
- WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746.
- ODE TO MERCY.
- ODE TO LIBERTY.
- ODE TO A LADY,
- ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS, IN THE ACTION OF FONTENOY. Written in May, 1745.
- ODE TO EVENING.
- ODE TO PEACE.
- THE MANNERS.
- AN ODE.
- THE PASSIONS.
- AN ODE FOR MUSIC.
- ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON.
- THE SCENE IS SUPPOSED TO LIE ON THE THAMES NEAR RICHMOND.
- ODE ON THE POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND;
- CONSIDERED AS THE SUBJECT OF POETRY; INSCRIBED TO MR. JOHN HOME.
- AN EPISTLE,
- ADDRESSED TO SIR THOMAS HANMER, ON HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS.
- DIRGE IN CYMBELINE,
- SUNG BY GUIDERUS AND ARVIRAGUS OVER FIDELE, SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD.
- VERSES
- WRITTEN ON A PAPER WHICH CONTAINED A PIECE OF BRIDE-CAKE, GIVEN TO THE AUTHOR BY A LADY.
- TO MISS AURELIA C–––R,
- ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER’S WEDDING.
- SONNET.
- SONG.
- THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKESPEARE.[62]
- ON OUR LATE TASTE IN MUSIC.[63]
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIENTAL ECLOGUES AND ODES.
- OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORIENTAL ECLOGUES.
- ECLOGUE I.
- ECLOGUE II.
- ECLOGUE III.
- ECLOGUE IV.
- OBSERVATIONS
- ON THE ODES, DESCRIPTIVE AND ALLEGORICAL.
- ODE TO PITY.
- ODE TO FEAR.
- ODE TO SIMPLICITY.
- ODE ON THE POETICAL CHARACTER.
- ODE,
- WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1746.
- ODE TO MERCY.
- ODE TO LIBERTY.
- ODE TO A LADY,
- ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS, IN THE ACTION OF FONTENOY.
- ODE TO EVENING.
- THE MANNERS.
- AN ODE.
- THE PASSIONS.
- AN ODE FOR MUSIC.
- AN EPISTLE
- TO SIR THOMAS HANMER, ON HIS EDITION OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS.
- DIRGE IN CYMBELINE.
- ODE ON THE DEATH OF THOMSON.
- FOOTNOTES:
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