C18 – Harold Raitt

One to destroy, is murder by the law, And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; To murder thousands, takes a specious name, War’s glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

The Task

Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Fergusson, the Poet

Curse on ungrateful man, that can be pleas’d, And yet can starve the author of the pleasure! O thou my elder brother in misfortune, By far my elder brother in the muse, With tears I pity thy unhappy fate! Why is the bard unpitied by the world, Yet has so keen a relish of its …

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To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel Johnson

Elegy on the Death of Mr David Gregory, late Professor of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews

Now mourn, ye college masters a’! [tab]And frae your ein a tear lat fa’, Fam’d Gregory death has taen awa’ [tab]Without remeid; The skate ye’ve met wi’s nae that ska’, [tab]Sin Gregory’s dead. The students too will miss him sair, To school them weel his eident care, Now they may mourn for ever mair, [tab]They hae …

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Clanranald’s Galley

To George Romney, Esq.

Sonnet to William Wilberforce, Esquire

To the River Lodon

On the Edition of Mr. Pope’s Works with a Commentary and Notes

London’s Summer Morning

Ye Mariners of England

On the Death of Mr Richard West

Ode: On the Death of a Favorite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Cantata 147: Herz und Mund und That und Leben

‘One to destroy, is murder by the law’

The Task

Lines Written Under the Portrait of Robert Fergusson, the Poet

To the Principal and Professors of the University of St Andrews, on their Superb Treat to Dr Samuel Johnson

Elegy on the Death of Mr David Gregory, late Professor of Mathematics in the University of St Andrews

Ave verum corpus

Come, Holy Ghost