The Caledoniad. A Collection of Poems, written chiefly by Scottish Authors. [Vol 3] [T130687] [ECCO]
- DMI number:
- 1290
- Publication Date:
- 1775
- Volume Number:
- 3 of 3
- ESTC number:
- T130687
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW3312904868
- Full Title:
- THE | CALEDONIAD. | A | COLLECTION | OF | POEMS, | WRITTEN CHIEFLY BY | SCOTTISH AUTHORS. | [Rule] | [Epigraph 1] | [Epigraph 2] | [Rule] | VOL. III. | [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:
- Index to Vol. III., 5pp
- Publisher:
- William Hay
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- My dear and only love I pray
- Page No:
- pp.1-2
- Poem Title:
- A Song,
- Attribution:
- by J. Graham, Marquis of Montrose.
- Attributed To:
- James Graham
- First Line:
- My dear and only love take heed
- Page No:
- pp.3-6
- Poem Title:
- The Second Part.
- Attribution:
- by J. Graham, Marquis of Montrose [p.1]
- Attributed To:
- James Graham
- First Line:
- Colin by promise being obliged to pay
- Page No:
- pp.7-10
- Poem Title:
- The Poor Client's Complaint; Translated from Buchanan.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Rob's Jock came to woo our Jennie
- Page No:
- pp.11-15
- Poem Title:
- The Country Wedding.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Pox fa that poultering poverty
- Page No:
- pp.16-23
- Poem Title:
- The Banishment of Poverty,
- Attribution:
- By J. D. of Albany.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Devorit with dreim devising in my slumber
- Page No:
- pp.23-27
- Poem Title:
- A General Satyre.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- From ancient nest did spring a droll muir-cock
- Page No:
- pp.27-29
- Poem Title:
- A Tale of a Muir-Cock.
- Attribution:
- By Alexander Pennecuik, Esq.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pennecuik
- First Line:
- Now lend your lugs ye benders fine
- Page No:
- pp.29-38
- Poem Title:
- The Miller Cuckolded.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Alexander Pennecuik, Esq.]
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pennecuik
- First Line:
- Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta fisea
- Page No:
- pp.38-45
- Poem Title:
- Polemo Middinia, Inter Vitarvam et Nebernam.
- Attribution:
- By W. Drummond, of Hawthornden, Esqr.
- Attributed To:
- William Drummond
- First Line:
- This warld is all but fenziet fair
- Page No:
- pp.46-48
- Poem Title:
- Auld Kyndness Quite forzet quhen ane grows pure.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Should old acquaintance be forgot
- Page No:
- pp.49-50
- Poem Title:
- Old-Long-Syne. First part.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My soul is ravished with delight
- Page No:
- pp.51-52
- Poem Title:
- Second Part.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A Murelands man of uplands mak
- Page No:
- pp.52-55
- Poem Title:
- Tidings frae the Session.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Dunbar.
- Attributed To:
- William Dunbar
- First Line:
- Led on by hope in quest of fame
- Page No:
- pp.55-57
- Poem Title:
- Charity and Fame. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In love with a pedantic jargon
- Page No:
- pp.57-59
- Poem Title:
- On Johnson's Dictionary.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Janus thou deity of scoundrels
- Page No:
- pp.59-62
- Poem Title:
- Ode to Janus, On New-year's Day.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What muse can justly sing the printer's praise
- Page No:
- pp.62-64
- Poem Title:
- The Printer: A Poem.
- Attribution:
- Architypographus.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come liberty's sons and hear what I propose
- Page No:
- pp.64-68
- Poem Title:
- A Scheme for reducing the high price of Provisions. A Cantata. Wrote in the Year 1773.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Whan father Adie first pat spade in
- Page No:
- pp.69-72
- Poem Title:
- Caller Water.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Fergusson.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fergusson
- First Line:
- Look up my friend look up and see
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- Horace, Book I. Ode IX. imitated in modern Scots.
- Attribution:
- Vanlu.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Of all the waters that can hobble
- Page No:
- pp.75-78
- Poem Title:
- Caller Oysters.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Fergusson.
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fergusson
- First Line:
- To all men living be it kend
- Page No:
- pp.78-81
- Poem Title:
- The Rising of the Session.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Fergusson]
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fergusson
- First Line:
- Herds blythsome tune your canty reeds
- Page No:
- pp.82-84
- Poem Title:
- Ode to the Bee.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. Mr. Fergusson]
- Attributed To:
- Robert Fergusson
- First Line:
- In those fair meads beside that favoured stream
- Page No:
- pp.85-98[i.e. 90]
- Poem Title:
- Domestic Happiness. A Town Eclogue, by C--s J--r, M. A.
- Attribution:
- by C--s J--r, M. A.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As walking forth to view the plain
- Page No:
- pp.99[i.e. 91]-100[i.e. 92]
- Poem Title:
- Katharine Ogie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When I think on this world's pelf
- Page No:
- p.101[i.e. 93]
- Poem Title:
- Blathrie o't.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The smiling morn the breathing spring
- Page No:
- pp.102[i.e. 94]-103[i.e. 95]
- Poem Title:
- The Birks of Invermay.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
- Page No:
- pp.103[i.e. 95]-104[i.e. 96]
- Poem Title:
- Bessy Bell and Mary Gray
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lass of Peatie's mill
- Page No:
- pp.105[i.e. 97]-106[i.e. 98]
- Poem Title:
- Peaty's Mill.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Saw ye Johnie coming quoth she
- Page No:
- pp.106[i.e. 98]-107[i.e. 99]
- Poem Title:
- Fee him, Father, fee him.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My daddy is a cankered carle
- Page No:
- pp.107[i.e. 99]-108[i.e. 100]
- Poem Title:
- Low down in the Broom.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The last time I came over the moor
- Page No:
- pp.109[i.e. 101]-110[i.e. 102]
- Poem Title:
- The Last Time I came o'er the Moor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A lass that was loaden with care
- Page No:
- pp.102-103
- Poem Title:
- Sae Merry as we ha'e been.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah Chloris could I now but sit
- Page No:
- pp.111[i.e. 103]-112[i.e. 104]
- Poem Title:
- Ah! Chloris.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Oh what had I ado for to marry
- Page No:
- pp.112[i.e. 104]-113[i.e. 105]
- Poem Title:
- Hooly and Fairly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The night her silent sable wore
- Page No:
- pp.114[i.e. 106]-115[i.e. 107]
- Poem Title:
- She rose, and let me in.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- An thou wert my ain thing
- Page No:
- pp.115-116
- Poem Title:
- An thou were my ain Thing.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In winter when the rain rained cauld
- Page No:
- pp.117-119
- Poem Title:
- Take your auld Cloak about ye.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye gales that gently wave the sea
- Page No:
- pp.119-120
- Poem Title:
- The Boat-Man.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Nansy's to the green wood gane
- Page No:
- pp.120-122
- Poem Title:
- Nansy's to the Green-Wood gane.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- What beauties does Flora disclose
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Tweed Side.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When Maggy first pearced me with love
- Page No:
- p.124
- Poem Title:
- Tweed Side.
- Attribution:
- (By a Lady.)
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- For the laik of gold she left me
- Page No:
- p.125
- Poem Title:
- For Laik of Gold she left me.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Hear me ye nymphs and every swain
- Page No:
- pp.126-127
- Poem Title:
- The Bush aboon Traquair.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My Patie is a lover gay
- Page No:
- pp.127-128
- Poem Title:
- Corn Riggs.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- How blyth was I each morn to see
- Page No:
- pp.128-129
- Poem Title:
- The Broom of the Cowdenknows.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sheep I've forsaken and left my sheep-hook
- Page No:
- pp.130-131
- Poem Title:
- Amynta.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Betty early gone a Maying
- Page No:
- pp.131-132
- Poem Title:
- There's my Thumb I'll ne'er beguile Thee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In April when primroses paint the sweet plain
- Page No:
- pp.132-133
- Poem Title:
- The yellow-hair'd Laddie
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Jocky he came here to woo
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Hey Jenny, come down to Jock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- When trees did bud and fields were green
- Page No:
- pp.135-136
- Poem Title:
- Down the Burn Davie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- One day I heard Mary day
- Page No:
- pp.136-137
- Poem Title:
- I'll never leave thee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- As from a rock past all relief
- Page No:
- pp.138-139
- Poem Title:
- Peggy I must love thee.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- With broken words and down cast eyes
- Page No:
- pp.139-140
- Poem Title:
- Woe's my Heart that we should sunder.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- To Fanny fair could I impart
- Page No:
- pp.140-141
- Poem Title:
- To the Tune of Mill, Mill-O.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Gill Morrice was an earl's son
- Page No:
- pp.141-152
- Poem Title:
- Gill Morice.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ah the poor shepherd's mournful fate
- Page No:
- pp.152-153
- Poem Title:
- Tune, Gallowshiels.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- At Polwart on the green
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- Polwart on the Green.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sylvan powers that rule the plain
- Page No:
- pp.154-155
- Poem Title:
- The Banks of Forth.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Blessed as the immortal Gods is he
- Page No:
- p.156
- Poem Title:
- Tune, I wish my Love were in a Mire.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Dumbarton's drums beat bonny-O
- Page No:
- pp.157-158
- Poem Title:
- Dumbarton Drums
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- On Etrick banks ae summer's night
- Page No:
- pp.158-159
- Poem Title:
- Etrick Banks.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By a murmuring stream a fair shepherdess lay
- Page No:
- pp.159-160
- Poem Title:
- Love is the Cause of my Mourning.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here awa there awa here awa Willie
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- Here awa, there awa.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O waly waly up the bank
- Page No:
- pp.163-164
- Poem Title:
- Waly, Waly.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love never more shall give me pain
- Page No:
- pp.165-166
- Poem Title:
- My Deary, if thou die.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Farewell to Lochaber and farewell my Jean
- Page No:
- pp.166-167
- Poem Title:
- Lochaber.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- O Sandy why leaves thou thy Nelly to mourn
- Page No:
- p.168
- Poem Title:
- Thro' the Wood, Laddie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- While some for pleasure pawn their health
- Page No:
- p.169
- Poem Title:
- My Nanny-O.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Happy's the love which meets return
- Page No:
- pp.170-171
- Poem Title:
- Mary Scot.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The lowland lads think they are fine
- Page No:
- pp.171-172
- Poem Title:
- The Highland Laddie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Busk ye busk ye my bony bride
- Page No:
- pp.173-174
- Poem Title:
- Busk ye, Busk ye.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By smooth winding Tay a swain was reclining
- Page No:
- pp.174-175
- Poem Title:
- John Hay's Bonny Lassie.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Look where my dear Hamilla smiles
- Page No:
- pp.175-176
- Poem Title:
- The bonniest Lass in a' the Warld.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Saw ye nae my Peggy
- Page No:
- pp.176-177
- Poem Title:
- Saw ye nae my Peggy.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Love's goddess in a myrtle grove
- Page No:
- pp.177-178
- Poem Title:
- Bonny Jean.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Twas in that season of the year
- Page No:
- pp.179-178
- Poem Title:
- Roslin Castle.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- By Pinky House oft let me walk
- Page No:
- pp.180-181
- Poem Title:
- Pinky House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The springtime returns and clothes the green plains
- Page No:
- pp.182-183
- Poem Title:
- Alloa House.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Boast not fair portrait to display
- Page No:
- p.184
- Poem Title:
- On seeing Miss L. B--'s Picture.
- Attribution:
- By A. B. Esq;
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I've heard of a lilting
- Page No:
- pp.184-187
- Poem Title:
- The Flowers of the Forest: Or, The Battle of Floden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Ye sons of pleasure giddy prideful throng
- Page No:
- pp.188-203
- Poem Title:
- A Description of the Huts in Ilay From Mr. Pennant's Voyage to the Hebrides, in the Year 1772.
- Attribution:
- By a Clergyman.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- In that sad season when the hapless belle
- Page No:
- pp.203-208
- Poem Title:
- Dorinda, A Town Eclogue.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Sage doctor S- I do advise
- Page No:
- pp.209-210
- Poem Title:
- To a very learned and much celebrated Physician, on his assuming an ill-natured countenance, and appearing peevish, on reading a joke from the Pen of a Lady.
- Attribution:
- By Miss B--ce.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Few are my wants clean wholesome food
- Page No:
- pp.210-211
- Poem Title:
- Contentment.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. [i.e. By Miss B--ce.]
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I have been quite through England wide
- Page No:
- pp.211-217
- Poem Title:
- Robin Conscience: Or Conscionable Robin: His Progress through Court, City, and Country; with his bad Entertainment at each several Place, &c. Edinburgh, Printed in the Year 1683.
- Attribution:
- By a Scots Courtier.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The ploughman he's a bonny lad
- Page No:
- pp.218-219
- Poem Title:
- The Ploughman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There lived a wife in our gate end
- Page No:
- pp.219-222
- Poem Title:
- Drap O' Capie O.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Beneath a green shade a lovely young swain
- Page No:
- pp.222-223
- Poem Title:
- Braes of Ballanden.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- There was an auld wife had a wee pickle tow
- Page No:
- pp.223-225
- Poem Title:
- The Spinning Rock.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- The curfew tolls the knell of parting day
- Page No:
- pp.225-230
- Poem Title:
- An Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Gray.
- Attributed To:
- Thomas Gray
- First Line:
- When Cupid wanton boy was young
- Page No:
- pp.231-234
- Poem Title:
- The Orign of Song-Writing.
- Attribution:
- By Miss Aikin.
- Attributed To:
- Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]
- First Line:
- A zealous brother of the canting crew
- Page No:
- pp.235-237
- Poem Title:
- The Zealous Constable.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pennycuick.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pennecuik
- First Line:
- Stop passenger until my life you read
- Page No:
- pp.238-239
- Poem Title:
- Epitaphs. On Marjory Scot of Dunkeld.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. (i.e. Mr. Pennycuick)
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pennecuik
- First Line:
- Here lies a reverend Givan priest
- Page No:
- p.239
- Poem Title:
- On John Pettigrew Minister at Givan.
- Attribution:
- By the Same. (i.e. Mr. Pennycuick)
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pennecuik
- First Line:
- Beneath this turf lies Geordie Faichney
- Page No:
- pp.241-242
- Poem Title:
- On George Faichney.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Reader bid every taylor leave his house
- Page No:
- p.241
- Poem Title:
- On George Button, Taylor.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies an old woman wrapped in her linen
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- On an old Woman.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies John Davidson
- Page No:
- p.242
- Poem Title:
- On John Davidson in Aberdeen.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- A prison is a house of care
- Page No:
- p.243
- Poem Title:
- The Character of a Prison.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Are not the ravens fed great god by thee
- Page No:
- p.243
- Poem Title:
- On Providence.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Come resignation lovely maid
- Page No:
- pp.244-247
- Poem Title:
- Stanzas To the Memory of John Calendar, who was washed from the Shrowds of the Sally, Capt. Thomson, in a Gale at Sea, October 1775.
- Attribution:
- By a Passenger.
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Here lies interred beside a witch
- Page No:
- p.420
- Poem Title:
- Lady Shaw's Epitaph, In Greenock Church-yard.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- I John Bell smith lies under this stain
- Page No:
- p.420
- Poem Title:
- On John Bell.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- My sledge and hammer both declined
- Page No:
- pp.420-421
- Poem Title:
- On a Black-smith.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
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