PAGE The Child and Flowers. By Mrs. Hemans ........................ 1 Ballad from the Norman French. By J.G. Lockhart, Esq... 4 Sonnets. By Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart. ......................... 11 The City of the Dead. By L. E. L. ..................................13 Night and Death. By the Rev. Joseph Blanco White ........16 The Wanderings of Cain. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. ......... 17 Verses for an Album. By Charles Lamb, Esq. ................ 24 Lines written in the Vale of Zoar ..................................... 25 An aged Widow's own Words By James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.................................................... 26 From the Italian .............................................................. 27 Work without Hope. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. ............... 28 The Poet-Warrior. By Allan Cunningham ....................... 29 The Rose. By Sir Thomas E. Croft, Bart. ....................... 31 To my Child. By B. C. .................................................. 32 Letter from Sir Walter Scott, Bart. ................................. 33 The Night before the Battle of Montiel. From the Spanish of Don Juan Algalaba ............................... 39 Jessy of Kibe's Farm. By Miss M. R. Mitford ............... 65 Song. By T. K. Hervey, Esq. ........................................ 76 Sans Souci. By. L. E. L. ............................................... 77 A Lament for the Decline of Chivalry. By T. Hood, Esq. Author of "Whims and Oddities" .................... 75 The Purple Evening. By the author of 'Stray Leaves' ...... 80 Scotland. By Robert Southey, Esq. Poet Laureat .......... 81 To a Friend. By Lady Caroline Lambe .......................... 89 On his Majesty's Return to Windsor Castle. By the Rev. W. Lisle Bowles ............................................ 91 The Hellweathers. By N. T. Carrington, Esq. Author of "Dartmoor" ....................................................... 92 Imitation from the Persian. By Dr. Southey ................... 98 The Suitors Rejected. By Miss Emma Roberts, Author of "Memoirs of the Houses of York and Lancaster." 99 Ane Waefu' Scots Pastoral. By James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd ................................................. 108

xiv CONTENTS. PAGE Anacreontic. By T. K. Hervey, Esq............................... 112 The Ritter Von Reichenstein ......................................... 114 A familiar Epistle to Sir Thomas Lawrence. By Barry Cornwall .............................................................. 139 Youth and Age. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq........................144 A Day Dream. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq........................ .146 Marie's Grave. By the Author of "The Subaltern"............148 The National Norwegian Song. By W. H. Leeds, Esq.....173 An Address to the Lost Wig of John Bell, Esq. By a Tyro......................................................................176 A Simile, on a Lady's Portrait. By James Montgo- mery, Esq..............................................................181 The Epistle of Servius Sulpicius to Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by his Majesty..........................183 The Epistle of Marcus Tullius Cicero to Servius Sul- picius. Translated by his late Royal Highness the Duke of York ..................................................188 The Lover's Invocation. By Miss Mitford....................... 191 Inscription for a Grotto. By Horace Smith, Esq...............193 The Infant Shakespeare..................................................195 On a Little Girl. By W. Fraser........................................ 198 Canzonet. By John Bird, Esq..........................................200 The Two Founts. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq.......................202 Halloran the Pedlar. By the writer of the "Diary of an Ennuyée" ......................................................205 Morning. By D. L. Richardson, Esq................................240 The Oriental Love-Letter. By Mrs. Pickersgill, Author of the "Tales of the Harem" ....................................241 Mount Carmel. By H. Neele, Esq.................................. 234 Sketch from Life ............................................................242 Beau Leverton ...............................................................261 Essex and the Maid of Honour. By Horace Smith, Esq... 285 Humble Love. By William Fraser....................................312 Haddon Hall. By H. B....................................................315 My Native Land. By Delta, of Blackwood's Magazine....319 [Index of Embellishments] [Index of Authors] [Notes]