The Caledoniad. A Collection of Poems, written chiefly by Scottish Authors. [Vol 1] [T130687] [ECCO]

DMI number:

1252

Publication Date:

1775

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T130687

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW3313073966

Full Title:

THE | CALEDONIAD. | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | WRITTEN CHIEFLY BY | SCOTTISH AUTHORS. | [Rule] | [Epigraph 1] | [Epigraph 2] | [Rule] | VOL. I. | [Rule] | LONDON: | PRINTED by W. HAY; | And sold at his Shop, next to the Academy of Artists, | near Exeter Exchange, Strand. | [Short rule] | MDCCLXXV.

Epigraph:

Epigraph 1: Marmora Messala findit caprificus, et audax | Dimidios Crispi mulio ridet equos: | At chartis nec furta nocent, et secula profunt: | Solaque non norunt haec monumenta mori. MARTIAL, B. x. Ep. 2. Epigraph 2: Statues may moulder; and the Clown, unbred, | Scoff at young Ammon's horse without his head: | But finish'd Writings Theft and Time defy; | The only Monuments which cannot die. HAY.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of Scottish verse

Format:

Octavo

Other matter:

Errata, 1p. Preface, pp.i-ii. Index to Vol. I, pp.171-175.

Related People

Publisher:

William Hay

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Philander like an happy thoughtless swain

Page No:

pp.1-3

Poem Title:

The Secret.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O cheerfulness celestial Queen

Page No:

pp.3-7

Poem Title:

Address to Chearfulness.

Attribution:

By a young Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I'll sing you a song

Page No:

pp.7-10

Poem Title:

A Song, On the Officers of Lord ----'s Regiment. [Tune, Free and Accepted Mason.]

Attribution:

By an Officer.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When here o colonel first we came

Page No:

pp.10-11

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of Arno's Vale, made at Breda, and addressed to Colonel S----

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. an Officer.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I care not ye gods for the breath of a name

Page No:

pp.11-12

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Accept dear Percy from your long known friend

Page No:

p.13

Poem Title:

To the Right Honourable Lord Algernon Percy: On his marriage.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Hail harvest come and with thee plenty bring

Page No:

pp.14-17

Poem Title:

An Ode to Plenty and Harvest.

Attribution:

By an Officer.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Could I with poems purchase an estate

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

The Complaint.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. an Officer.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

It fell about the month of June

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of the first four Verses of Barbara Allen. Made on Lord D----'s regiment receiving orders to march from Maestrecht to Sas van Ghent, in Dutch Flanders.

Attribution:

By Sir R--t M--y K--h.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By Sas's sickly streams we sat

Page No:

pp.20-21

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of the CXXXVIIth Psalm, made at Sas van Ghent, when the regiment was very sickly.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From writing odes and all such tricks

Page No:

pp.21-23

Poem Title:

The Caution.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear minister my landard stile

Page No:

pp.23-25

Poem Title:

A Letter written to the Parson at Lisle, from Sas van Ghent.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

By the side of the slow running Zoom

Page No:

pp.25-28

Poem Title:

A Paraphrase of Colin's Complaint. Made at Bergen-op-zoom, March 1752, at the Reduction that happened at that time.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The prince made me a grenadier

Page No:

p.28

Poem Title:

A Song, Made on the same occasion.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To you great lords I make my just complaint

Page No:

pp.29-30

Poem Title:

The lamentable Situation of the pensioned Officers. [...] To the States General.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With indignation and with fury fraught

Page No:

p.29

Poem Title:

The lamentable Situation of the pensioned Officers [...] Invocation.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Sir R--t M--y K--h.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

From Bergen's walls with recent bloodshed stained

Page No:

pp.30-31

Poem Title:

A Letter to Captain D---s at Amesbury, from Bergen-op-zoom, July 1952.

Attribution:

K---h.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Say would you have me still love on

Page No:

pp.31-33

Poem Title:

A Translation of Voltaire's Stanzas on Old Age.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. K---h]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

With reverence great and due submission

Page No:

pp.33-34

Poem Title:

A Drinking Pass to Lieutenant R---t D---s. Addressed to Sir George C---n, Bart.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. K---h]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bleak roared the blast and horror's giant form

Page No:

pp.35-37

Poem Title:

Danae's Lamentation over her son Perseus, sleeping in a Chest, whilst exposed to a Storm at Sea. (From the Original of Simonides.)

Attribution:

R. W.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

John Dow is dead and gane to rest

Page No:

pp.39-42

Poem Title:

An Elegy, on John Dow, commonly called Colonel Dow; who died at Crieff, November 1774, without making any material blank in God's creation.

Attribution:

By Mr. J----y

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Paoli the second to make people stare

Page No:

pp.42-45

Poem Title:

On reading a Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland.

Attribution:

By Miss B---ce.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Pallas dear nymph bids you be kind

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

To Miss S---ge, sent by a Young Gentleman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

As murmuring Thames came gliding by

Page No:

pp.46-47

Poem Title:

Verses by Miss B---ce, on hearing Somerset House was ordered to be taken down.

Attribution:

by Miss B---ce,

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why came you back to me ah cruel swain

Page No:

pp.47-49

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Young Gentleman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Whilst you are frolicking amongst plays and balls

Page No:

pp.49-50

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Friend.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh hear me all ye powers above

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

An Invocation to the Muses.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

True happiness and peace of mind

Page No:

pp.51-53

Poem Title:

The Vision.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To you my friend I will my sorrow tell

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the Country in Winter.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ha now the tyrant rage of winter's gone

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

An Epistle from the Country in the Spring.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

If ever o Hymen I add to thy tribe

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Would you behold the wonder of our age

Page No:

p.57

Poem Title:

An Acrostick.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A bumper yes may for a while

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

Verses inscribed to a Young gentleman, who lov'd drinking too well.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Why do you thus mistaken youth

Page No:

p.58

Poem Title:

A Reproof to a Young Man.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I the other day received your letter

Page No:

pp.59-60

Poem Title:

A Scotch Epistle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In garret high there lives a swain

Page No:

p.61

Poem Title:

Verses addressed to a Young Gentleman, who would be a Poet.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of all trades I know

Page No:

pp.61-62

Poem Title:

A serious Advice to the same Poet.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One day a young bard

Page No:

pp.62-63

Poem Title:

On a poor Genius.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

You'll wonder to find

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

To a Lady upon her Son turning Poet after a Fit of Sickness.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Goddess of Dulness I implore

Page No:

pp.64-65

Poem Title:

Song. [...] Invocation.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

This young man inclined to the ways of Old Nick

Page No:

pp.65-67

Poem Title:

The Life and Conversion of a Young Gentleman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What means the dullness of this place

Page No:

p.65

Poem Title:

Song. [p.64]

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce, p. 64]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The doctrine of grace

Page No:

p.67

Poem Title:

Verses.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Though faith's the root

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Two names in Great Britain all Whigs do approve

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What one Sharp did of old as in history you'll find

Page No:

p.68

Poem Title:

A Rebuse.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The busy clamorous city's sunk in rest

Page No:

pp.69-72

Poem Title:

An Epistle.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What on stages in streets gives the vulgar delight

Page No:

p.69

Poem Title:

Another.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Laurus was nature's masterpiece begun

Page No:

pp.72-73

Poem Title:

A Poem.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Ah that the Almighty from eternal thought

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Verses.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Near Eden side there is a hero known

Page No:

pp.74-77

Poem Title:

A Genuine Account of Capt. R.-- G.-- B--, in the Days of his Youth, in an Epistle to a Young Gentleman.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Your lordship's letter we have read

Page No:

p.77

Poem Title:

Addressed to Lord B----n, when he wrote a Character of himself in the News-papers, by Way of a Letter, when he wanted to be made One of the Sixteen Peers for Scotland.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

I've prayed and threatened yet tis all in vain

Page No:

pp.78-80

Poem Title:

Mr. M---n Answer to Miss B---e Card.

Attribution:

Mr. M---n

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To Mr M--n Miss B--ce presents

Page No:

p.78

Poem Title:

A Card.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear sir when I received your letter

Page No:

pp.80-82

Poem Title:

An Epistle.

Attribution:

By Miss B--ce.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When nature formed thee for a wit

Page No:

pp.82-83

Poem Title:

Verses Extempore, to a Poet.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

How shall I thank thee noble dame

Page No:

pp.83-84

Poem Title:

An Epistle written Extempore, on receiving a Letter from the Honourable Mrs. G.----

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. Miss B---ce.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Bleak Winter's gone Favonian gales

Page No:

pp.84-85

Poem Title:

Horace, Book I, Ode IV.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. R--t W--r.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Learn hence dear youth the brainless crowds to shun

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

An Advice to a Young Gentleman.

Attribution:

By a Young Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

No longer will i ask her love

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

Verses sent to Miss R--y M--n, of G--k, Renfrewshire.

Attribution:

Fidelio.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Infinite great majestic God

Page No:

pp.87-88

Poem Title:

Verses written by a Young Lady, aged Thirteen, on viewing a Ship-wreck.

Attribution:

A.-- M.--

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Long since I bade the muse farewell

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

To Miss M--- M---n, of Greenock, An amiable Young Lady, unfortunately the Cousin of the Fashionable Daughter.

Attribution:

Fidelio.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Stop mortal frail collect your thought

Page No:

pp.91-96

Poem Title:

A Rhapsody on a Huge Hog's Head, written in 1761. Being a Satirical Essay on a certain tippling Society.

Attribution:

By Mr. W. T--d.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To prove a vacuum in thy brain

Page No:

pp.96-101

Poem Title:

A familiar Epistle to Mr. N---k, on reading his New History of London. Written in 1773.

Attribution:

By Mr. H--y

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Of old a grave ass paced in pomp

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

A Fable.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Sons of mysterious Faust and famous Koster

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

Verses on reading Mr. Russell's Character and Genius of Women, and Sir John Dalrymple his Appendix to State Papers.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The prodigal son when in brothels he danced

Page No:

p.105

Poem Title:

A Card, with the Book of Common Prayer, sent to a young Rake, after a whole Night's debauch, in dancing and drinking.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Fine paintings fine trees there's little else in it

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

On reading the celebrated Trip to Paris.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

In truth my lord your steward's feast

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

On the Feast of the Sons of the Clergy. (Written in 1774.) To L----d N-----.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Abstracting my friends

Page No:

pp.108-109

Poem Title:

To the Abstractors of the Acts of Parliament, in the News-papers, in 1773.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by Mr. H--y.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

When the trees are all bare not a leaf to be seen

Page No:

pp.109-111

Poem Title:

The Wish.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While others sing the heroes glorious fate

Page No:

pp.111-113

Poem Title:

An elegy on the Death of an amiable Young Lady. Written in 1761.

Attribution:

By J-- B-- Esq.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While you in nature's works explore

Page No:

pp.113-115

Poem Title:

Lycidas to Menalcas.

Attribution:

By the Same. [i.e. by J-- B-- Esq.]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Oh what meaneth my sorrowful heart

Page No:

pp.115-116

Poem Title:

An Ode to an Inconstant.

Attribution:

By a Gentleman. [...] H.-- G.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

One night as I walked by the side of a mill

Page No:

pp.116-118

Poem Title:

The Conversation.

Attribution:

By Miss B--e.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Now twilight from the mountain brow descends

Page No:

pp.118-119

Poem Title:

An Invocation to the Evening Star.

Attribution:

By the same. [i.e. by Miss B--ce]

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Bob who midst soft rural scenes

Page No:

pp.119-125

Poem Title:

Carmen Capillare: Or, the Wig Poem.

Attribution:

By a Young Gentleman.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dear Bob | Enraptured with your rural sport

Page No:

pp.125-127

Poem Title:

An Epistle.

Attribution:

By the Author of the Carmen Capillare.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

While Clio pondering over thy lines I roll

Page No:

pp.127-129

Poem Title:

By Lady Mary ---- on reading some Verses, written by an amiable young Lady.

Attribution:

By Lady Mary ----

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Dim as the fleeting visions of the night

Page No:

pp.129-130

Poem Title:

The Cell of Solitude.

Attribution:

By Mr. Ogilvie.

Attributed To:

John Ogilvie

First Line:

A man that's neither high nor low

Page No:

pp.130-131

Poem Title:

The Choice.

Attribution:

by A Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Tis truth with deference to the college

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

The News-Paper.

Attribution:

By Mr. ----.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Great Shakespeare's works octavos quartos folios

Page No:

pp.133-134

Poem Title:

On Shakespeare.

Attribution:

By a Bookseller.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

O formed to please without the force of art

Page No:

pp.134-136

Poem Title:

Verses by a Lady, on a young Gentleman's going abroad.

Attribution:

by a Lady.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Far from the cares or glories that await

Page No:

pp.137-139

Poem Title:

Humanity.

Attribution:

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

A thick twisted brake in the time of a storm

Page No:

p.137

Poem Title:

The Sheep and the Bramble-bush.

Attribution:

by Mr. Cunningham.

Attributed To:

John Cunningham

First Line:

Where Tweed's fair plains in liberal beauty lie

Page No:

pp.139-151

Poem Title:

Genius and Valour. A Pastoral Poem;

Attribution:

By Mr. Langhorne.

Attributed To:

John Langhorne

First Line:

Hail gentle maid hail rosy bosomed spring

Page No:

pp.151-153

Poem Title:

Address to Spring. Written in 1762.

Attribution:

By Mr. H.----

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

To wed or not to wed that is the question

Page No:

pp.154-155

Poem Title:

The Bachelor's Soliloquy. In imitation of the celebrated Soliloquy of Hamlet.

Attribution:

By G-- D-- Esq;

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

Philander could my pen rehearse

Page No:

pp.155-160

Poem Title:

A Monody, in Praise of Virtue. [...] Addressed to Mr. H.

Attribution:

By Mr. Mac----ne, in 1774.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

What power what genius will the muse

Page No:

pp.160-170

Poem Title:

Ode to Fortitude.

Attribution:

By Mr. R--l.

Attributed To:

Not attributed