"My father joy'd to show the pleasant road, That leads thro' nature, up to nature's God. While others teach their sons…"

"Knowledge or wealth to few are given, But mark how just the ways of Heaven: True joy to all is free. Nor wealth nor k…"

"Dull as a twice-told tale."

"Thousands of angels at thy gate, And great archangels stand, And twenty thousand chariots wait, Great Lord, thy dread…"

"There, where the cross in hoary ruin nods, And weeping yews o'ershade the lettered stones, While midnight silence wra…"

"When nature's happiest touch could add no more, Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face."

"Awake, ye West Winds, through the lonely dale, And Fancy, to thy fairy bower betake; Even now, with balmy freshness b…"

"But are ye sure the news is true— And are ye sure he's weel? Is this a time to think o' wark?— Ye jades, fling by you…"

"For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck at a'; There's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman's…"

"The best of parents blest my younger days; What others teach with frowns, they taught with praise."