Great Relatives Poetry Schoolbook

139 Ye flowery banks o'bonnie Doon, The one-hundred and thirty-ninth poem in the collection.

138 When lovely woman stoops to folly The one-hundred and thirty-eighth poem in the collection.

137 The merchant, to secure his treasure The one-hundred and thirty-seventh poem in the collection.

136 For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove The one-hundred and thirty-sixth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: Perhaps no writer who has given such strong proofs of the poetic nature has left less satisfactory poetry than Thomson. Yet he touched little which he did not beautify: and this song, with "Rule Britannia" and a few others, must make us regret that he did not more seriously apply himself to lyrical writing.

135 The Sleeping Beauty

134 To A Young Lady The one-hundred and thirty-fourth poem in the collection.

133 If doughty deeds my lady please The one-hundred and thirty-third poem in the collection.

132 A Farewell The one-hundred and thirty-second poem in the collection.

131 Sally In Our Alley The one-hundred and thirty-first poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: A little masterpiece in a very difficult style: Catullus himself could hardly have bettered it. In grace, tenderness, simplicity, and humour it is worthy of the Ancients; and even more so, from the completeness and unity of the picture presented.

130 Black Eyed Susan The one-hundred and thirtieth poem in the collection.

129 Loss of the Royal George The one-hundred and twenty-ninth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: The Royal George, of 108 guns, whilst undergoing a partial careening in Portsmouth Harbour, was overset about 10 A.M. Aug. 29, 1782. The total loss was believed to be near 1000 souls.

128 Willy Drowned in Yarrow The one-hundred and twenty-eighth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: The Editor has found no authoritative text of this poem, in his judgment superior to any other of its class in melody and pathos. Part is probably not later than the seventeenth century: in other stanzas a more modern hand, much resembling Scott's, is traceable. Logan's poem (127) exhibits a knowledge rather of the old legend than of the old verses. Hecht: promised, the obsolete hight; mavis: thrush; ilka: every; lav'rock: lark; haughs: valley-meadows; twined: parted from; marrow: mate; syne then.

127 The Braes of Yarrow The one-hundred and twenty-seventh poem in the collection.

126 Lament for Flodden The one-hundred and twenty-sixth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: lilting: singing blithely; loaning: broad lane; bughts: pens; scorning: rallying; dowie: dreary; daffin' and gabbin': joking and chatting; leglin: milkpail; shearing: reaping; bandsters: sheaf-binders; lyart: grizzled; runkled: wrinkled; fleeching: coaxing; gloaming: twilight; bogle: ghost; dool: sorrow.

125 Lament for Culloden The one-hundred and twenty-fifth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: The Highlanders called the battle of Culloden, Drumossie.

124 Ode Written in MDCCXLVI (1746) The one-hundred and twenty-fourth poem in the collection.

123 The Bard The one-hundred and twenty-third poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: The Bard.: This Ode is founded on a fable that Edward I., after conquering Wales, put the native Poets to death. After lamenting his comrades (st. 2, 3) the Bard prophesies the fate of Edward II. and the conquests of Edward III. (4); his death and that of the Black Prince (5): of Richard II, with the wars of York and Lancaster, the murder of Henry VI. (the meek usurper), and of Edward V. and his brother (6). He turns to the glory and prosperity following the accession of the Tudors (7), through Elizabeth's reign (8): and concludes with a vision of the poetry of Shakespeare and Milton. Glo'ster: Gilbert de Clare, son-in-law to Edward; Mortimer: one of the Lords Marchers of Wales. Arvon: the shores of Carnarvonshire opposite Anglesey. She-wolf: Isabel of France, adulterous Queen of Edward II.; Towers of Julius: the Tower of London, built in part, according to tradition, by Julius Caesar. bristled boar: the badge of Richard III. Half of thy heart: Queen Eleanor died soon after the conquest of Wales. Arthur: Henry VII. named his eldest son thus, in deference to British feeling and legend.

122 Rule Britannia The one-hundred and twenty-second poem in the collection.

121 To Charlotte Pulteney The one-hundred and twenty-first poem in the collection.

120 On A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub of Goldfishes

119 The Blind Boy The one-hundred and nineteenth poem in the collection.

116 Alexander's Feast, Or, The Power of Music The one-hundred and sixteenth poem in the collection.

115 At A Solemn Music The one-hundred and fifteenth poem in the collection. (* additional details below) NOTES FROM THE BACK OF THE BOOK: concent: harmony.

118 The Quiet Life The one-hundred and eighteenth poem in the collection.

117 Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude The one-hundred and seventeenth poem in the collection. The first poem of Book Third.