Scottish poetry
Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscript poem entitled: "Hamlet.”, early 1746
Manuscript poem entitled: "Hamlet.”, written early in 1746 and inserted anonymously in the Scots Magazine for June of the same year. Published in Hamilton's Poems (1760) under the title "A Soliloquy. In Imitation of Hamlet.”
This transcription of the poem is annotated at the end: "This very incorrect but as it only existed in my Memory I send it you — Tell Vertue for itself begins to move / And servile Fear replies melts into filial Love”.
Manuscript poem entitled: "Horace Ode 17 / To James Craig", early-mid 18th century
Manuscript poem entitled: "Interview between two fair Warriours at the Edinburgh Assembly in Imitation of Glaucus and Diomede”, early-mid 18th century
Manuscript poem entitled: "Minch Muir in Swift's Stile”, early-mid 18th century
This manuscript poem entitled: "Minch Muir in Swift's Stile" appears to be unpublished and unrecorded.
First and last lines:
"I Climbd the painfull Steep where Minch muir Shrouds / His Hoary Temples in Surrounding Clouds / Foggs Rise Eternall from his Dampfed Springs / Blew plague pale ffamine Load their Sable wings"
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"While Mercury o’erflows her Toothless Chops / All this is Paradice to Minch muir Tops".
Manuscript poem entitled: "Ode and Universal Catholicon”, early-mid 18th century
Manuscript title (on the reverse of manuscript): "Ode and Universal Catholicon”, unpublished and unrecorded.
First and last lines:
"Let no warmer wish escape / that may wear loves sacred shape / would thou be forever dear/ be not wity but sincere"
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"Let thy dreams & waking thought / Be with his dear image fraught / Evenin sleep it is a sin / To let other objects in / The end".
Manuscript poem entitled: "Ode on the model of Horace B. 4. O: 1”, early-mid 18th century
This poem is entitled did not appear in the 1745 edition. The 1760 published title was "Horace. Book IV. Ode I. Imitated.” There are a few corrections and amendments to the poem. These corrections were included in the posthumous 1760 edition. Several pages have annotations to the lower margins which did not appear in the printed version. They all appear to be quotes from Horace, e.g. "te per gramina martil campi”.
Manuscript poem entitled "Ode to Contemplation”, c 1747
Manuscript poem entitled "Ode to Mrs(?) Rutherford”, early-mid 18th century
Manuscript poem entitled "Ode to Mrs(?) Rutherford". Published title (1850 edition): "To Mrs A. R.”
Manuscript poem entitled "On the Death of Mr Basil Hamilton”, 1742
Manuscript poem entitled "On the Death of Mr Basil Hamilton". Basil Hamilton, Esq., of Baldoon, was an M.P. for the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. He died in November 1742, and the epitaph was written in December of the same year. Due to its controversial subject, only the first six lines were printed in Hamilton's Poems, 1760. It was not published in full until the 1850 edition.
Manuscript poem entitled: "On the melancholy Incident of a Young Lady who was present at the Execution of her Lover and after looking stedfastly & intrepidly on the dreadful Scene dy’d all at once in a most surprizing manner.”, c 1746
This poem is recorded in the famous Jacobite manuscript collection "The Lyon in Mourning" (1746-75) under the title "Upon a young lady, who died on seeing her lover, Mr. Dawson, executed on 30th July 1746".