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Inscribed in black ink upper right: "11"; in graphite center: "x"; on verso in black ink center: "The Bard. | 1. A Welch Bard. | 2. The Slaughtered Bards, taken from the line | 'The famished Eagle screams & passes by' Page 98. | 3. The Bard weaving Edwards fate | 4. Edward & his Queen and Nobles astonished at the | Bards Song | 5. 'Hark how each Giant Oak & Desart Cave | Sigh to the Torrents awful voice beneath.' | 6. 'On yonder Cliff. 'I see them Sit' | 7. 'Oer thy country hangs 'The scourge of heaven' | 8. The Whirlwind. 'Hushd in grim repose' | 9. 'Fell thirst & Famine scowl | a baleful smile upon their baffled guest.' | 10. The Death of Edwards Queen Eleanor from this line | 'Half of thy heart we consecrate' | 11. Elizabeth. 'Girt with many a Baron bold' | 12. Spenser Creating his Fairies. | 13. 'Headlong from the Mountains height | Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night' | 14. A poor Goatherd in Wales."

Lettered on inlaid page: "A PINDARIC ODE. 91 | Nor the pride, nor ample pinion, | That the Theban Eagle bear, | Sailing with supreme dominion | Thro' the azure deep of air: | Yet oft before his infant eyes would run | Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, | With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun: | Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way | Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, | Beneath the Good how far--but far above the | Great. | G THE"