A ship sinking : (Professor Wilson).
Wilson, John,1785-1854.
[Scotland] : Poet's Box,
[1880-1900?]
In two columns.
Two ballads.
Dated from examination of text and style.
'John Wilson, late Professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, was born in Paisley in 1785. He died in Edinburgh in 1854. Of his poems, the best known are The isle of palms, and City of the plague; and of his  prose works, Recreations of Christopher North, and Noctes ambrosianic'.
'This popular recitation can always be had at the Poet's Box'.
A ship sinking - first lines read: Her giant form, / O'er wrathful surge, through blackening storm, / Majestically calm, would go / 'Mid the deep darkness white as snow.
A tay & rum ditty - first lines read: Aw wur peighling tort whoam from mi wolr; / Aw wur hongry, an teighurt, an' weet.
Ballads, English