"Smit by thy rapture-beaming eye / Deep flashing through the midnight of their mind, / The sable bands combined, / Where Fear's black banner bloats the troubled sky, / Appall'd retire."
Ode to Hope
At least 13 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1760, 1761, 1762, 1776, 1779, 1784, 1790, 1795, 1797, 1799).Collected in <u>A Collection of Poems</u>, <u>The British Poets</u>, <u>The Muse's Pocket Companion</u>, and <u>Bell's Classical Arrangment of Fugitive Poetry</u>.<br>
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See <u>Original Poems and Translations. By James Beattie, A.M.</u> (London [i.e. Aberdeen?]: Printed [by F. Douglas, Aberdeen?]; and sold by A. Millar in The Strand, 1760). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136422">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3312517409&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Also <u>Original Poems and Translations. By James Beattie, A.M.</u> (Aberdeen: Printed by F. Douglas; and sold by him for the benefit of the author, and in London by A. Millar, in the Strand, 1761). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T136423">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315052971&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Also appears in <u>Poems on Several Subjects. By James Beattie</u>, new edition, corrected (London: Printed for W. Johnston, 1766). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=MrkDAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>Poems on Several Occasions, By James Beattie</u> (Edinburgh: Printed for W. Creech, 1776). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T138978">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;<br>
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