Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T60050] [ecco]
- DMI number:
- 905
- Publication Date:
- 1757
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T60050
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW114257609
- Shelfmark:
- ECCO - Bod
- Full Title:
- POEMS | BY | EMINENT LADIES. | PARTICULARLY | [two columns] [col1] Mrs. BARBER, | Mrs. BEHN, | Miss CARTER, | Lady CHUDLEIGH, | Mrs. COCKBURN, | Mrs. GRIERSON, | Mrs. JONES, | Mrs. KILLIGREW, | Mrs. LEAPOR, [/col1] | [col2] Mrs. MADAN, | Mrs. MASTERS, | Lady M. W. MONTAGUE, | Mrs. MONK, | Dutcss of NEWCASTLE, | Mrs. K. PHILIPS, | Mrs. PILKINGTON, | Mrs. ROWE, | Cntss. of WINCHELSEA. | To which is prefixed, | A short ACCOUNT of each WRITER. [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | VOL. II. | [double rule] | [i]DUBLIN:[/i] | PRINTED BY D. CHAMBERLAINE, | For SARAH COTTER, under Dick's Coffee- | House in Skinner-Row. M.DCC.LVII.
- Epigraph:
- [i]We allow'd you Beauty, and we did submit | To all the Tyrannies of it. | Ah, cruel Sex! will you depose us too in Wit?[/i] | COWLEY.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin
- Genres:
- Collection of literary verse
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- ESTC notes: 'A variant bears the imprint to volume 1 Printed by D. Chamberlaine, And sold at the City register Office, in Pembroke Court, Castle-Street.' Each poet's section has a separate title page: p. 1: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. ANNE KILLIGREW. | [rule] [n.p.]: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. MARY LEAPOR. | [rule] p. 111: [rule] | ORIGINAL | POEMS | BY | MRS. MADAN. | [rule] p. 119: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. MARY MASTERS. | [rule] p. 131: [rule] | POEMS | By the Right Honourable | Lady MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. | [rule] p. 155: [rule] | POEMS | BY | The HONOURABLE MRS. MONK. | [rule] p. 165: [rule] | POEMS | BY | The DUTCHESS of NEWCASTLE. | [rule] p. 179: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. KATHERINE PHILIPS. | [rule] p. 195: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. LAETITIA PILKINGTON. | [rule] p. 225: [rule] | POEMS | BY | MRS. ELIZABETH ROWE. | [rule] p. 239: [rule] | POEMS | BY | The COUNTESS of WINCHELSEA. | [rule]
- Comments:
- Almost every poet's section is preceded by a biographical introduction: Killigrew p. 2; Leapor p. 13; Madan p. 112; Masters p. 120; Monk p. 156; Newcastle p. 166; Philips p. 180; Pilkington p. 196; Rowe p. 226; Finch p. 240. Montagu has no biography.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory matter: contents pp. [iii]-viii.
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T42592] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1755
- ESTC No:
- T42592
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. II]
- Publication Date:
- 1773
- ESTC No:
- T144911
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Another Edition of
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T60050] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1757
- ESTC No:
- T60050
- Volume:
- 1 of 2
- Relationship:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Printer:
- Dillon Chamberlaine
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Sarah Cotter
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Seest thou yonder craggy rock
- Page No:
- pp.3-4
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint of a Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- The sun's my fire when it does shine
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- St. John the Baptist, painted by Herself, in the Wilderness, with the Angels appearing to him, and with a Lamb by him.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- When first Alexis did in verse delight
- Page No:
- p.5
- Poem Title:
- Love, the Soul of Poetry.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- Behold dear mother who was late our fear
- Page No:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- Herodia's Daughter presenting to her Mother St. John's Head in a Charger, also painted by Herself.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- Next heaven my vows to thee o sacred muse
- Page No:
- pp.6-8
- Poem Title:
- Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- Here take no care take here no care my muse
- Page No:
- pp.8-12
- Poem Title:
- The Discontent.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- As you are young if you'll be also wise
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- Extemporary Counsel to a young Gallant in a Frolick.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- When I am dead few friends attend my hearse
- Page No:
- p.12
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on Herself.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Anne Killigrew'.
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- Dorinda once the fairest of the train
- Page No:
- pp.14-19
- Poem Title:
- Dorinda at her Glass.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Imprimis my departed shade I trust
- Page No:
- pp.19-20
- Poem Title:
- Mira's Will.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- My guardian bear me on thy downy wing
- Page No:
- pp.20-21
- Poem Title:
- A Summer's Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain
- Page No:
- pp.21-23
- Poem Title:
- Colinetta.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Hail Phillis brighter than a morning sky
- Page No:
- pp.24-26
- Poem Title:
- The Month of August. Sylvanus, a Courtier. Phillis, a Country-maid.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In vain dear madam yes in vain you strive
- Page No:
- pp.26-28
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to a Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- May Artemisia hear my strain
- Page No:
- pp.28-31
- Poem Title:
- The Proclamation of Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Lucia was fair and bright as rising day
- Page No:
- pp.32-33
- Poem Title:
- The Fall of Lucia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- What means the reeling earth O why
- Page No:
- pp.33-34
- Poem Title:
- The Crucifixion and Resurrection, An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Nothing dear madam nothing is more true
- Page No:
- pp.34-37
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To you who never the willing verse refuse
- Page No:
- pp.38-40
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Hope.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Almighty wisdom at whose nod
- Page No:
- pp.40-42
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer for the Year MDCCXLV.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To Artemisia tis to her we sing
- Page No:
- pp.42-46
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Strephon the sprightly and the gay
- Page No:
- pp.46-51
- Poem Title:
- The Mistaken Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
- Page No:
- pp.51-54
- Poem Title:
- The Way of the World.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Madam | I hope you'll think it's true
- Page No:
- pp.55-56
- Poem Title:
- Strephon to Celia. A modern Love Letter.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To you dear madam I complain
- Page No:
- pp.56-60
- Poem Title:
- The Inspired Quill, occasioned by a Present of Crow Pens.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Ah thou whom nature and thy stars designed
- Page No:
- pp.60-61
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Pope's Universal Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When merit rises like the prince of day
- Page No:
- pp.62-66
- Poem Title:
- The Libyan Hunter. A Fable. Inscribed to the Memory of a late admired Author.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When lonely night composed the drowsy mind
- Page No:
- pp.67-69
- Poem Title:
- The Temple of Love. A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Since you Myrtillo will devote your time
- Page No:
- pp.69-71
- Poem Title:
- Advice to Myrtillo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- If you dear Celia cannot bear
- Page No:
- pp.71-73
- Poem Title:
- The Sacrifice. An Epistle to Celia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- O Goddess of eternal smiles
- Page No:
- pp.73-74
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Let not that day in circling moments run
- Page No:
- pp.74-77
- Poem Title:
- Job's Curse, and his Appeal. Taken out of Job, Chap. i. and xxxi.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- What pictures now shall wanton fancy bring
- Page No:
- pp.77-78
- Poem Title:
- Winter.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- As some grave matron bred on rural downs
- Page No:
- pp.78-80
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- As Silvia in her garden strayed
- Page No:
- pp.80-81
- Poem Title:
- Silvia and the Bee.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Twas when the sun had his swift progress made
- Page No:
- pp.82-85
- Poem Title:
- The Cruel Parent. A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In days of yore ere Britons grew too wise
- Page No:
- pp.85-101
- Poem Title:
- Mopsus: or, The Castle Builder.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight
- Page No:
- pp.101-102
- Poem Title:
- Advice to Sophronia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Within the bounds of yonder fruitful plain
- Page No:
- pp.102-104
- Poem Title:
- Corydon. Phillario. Or, Mira's Picture. A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When friends or fortune frown on Mira's lay
- Page No:
- pp.104-109
- Poem Title:
- Crumble-Hall.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Welcome dear wanderer once more
- Page No:
- pp.109-110
- Poem Title:
- Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Leapor'.
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In my dark cell low prostrate on the ground
- Page No:
- pp.113-118
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Eloisa.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Original Poems By Mrs. Madan'.
- Attributed To:
- Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
- First Line:
- O thou who labourst in this rugged mine
- Page No:
- p.118
- Poem Title:
- Verses written in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Original Poems By Mrs. Madan'.
- Attributed To:
- Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
- First Line:
- Long hath it been the critic's poor delight
- Page No:
- pp.121-122
- Poem Title:
- Defence of Myrtillo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Masters
- First Line:
- I said I will with strictest caution tread
- Page No:
- pp.122-124
- Poem Title:
- Psalm XXXIX.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Masters
- First Line:
- Lucinda you in vain dissuade
- Page No:
- pp.124-125
- Poem Title:
- To Lusinda.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Masters
- First Line:
- Fret not thyself when wicked men prevail
- Page No:
- pp.125-129
- Poem Title:
- Psalm XXXVII. Inscribed to an Injured Friend.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Masters
- First Line:
- Roxana from the court retiring late
- Page No:
- pp.133-135
- Poem Title:
- Town Eclogues. Monday. Roxana: Or, The Drawing-Room.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Thou who so many favours hast received
- Page No:
- pp.135-138
- Poem Title:
- Tuesday. St. James's Coffee-House. Silliander and Patch.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- No fair Dancinda no you strive in vain
- Page No:
- pp.138-141
- Poem Title:
- Wednesday. The Tete a Tete. Dancinda.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- The wretched Flavia on her couch reclined
- Page No:
- pp.141-144
- Poem Title:
- Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read
- Page No:
- pp.144-147
- Poem Title:
- Epistle from Arthur Grey, the Footman, after his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- At length by so much importunity pressed
- Page No:
- pp.147-149
- Poem Title:
- The Lover. A Ballad. To Mr. C--.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame
- Page No:
- pp.149-150
- Poem Title:
- The Gentleman's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame
- Page No:
- p.149
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Window.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- How happy you who varied joys pursue
- Page No:
- pp.150-152
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Lord B--t.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- What could luxurious woman wish for more
- Page No:
- pp.152-153
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Mary, Queen of Scots. Designed to be spoken by Mrs. Oldfield.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Why will Delia thus retire
- Page No:
- pp.153-154
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J------n.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- As a kind mother with indulgent eye
- Page No:
- pp.157-158
- Poem Title:
- On Providence. From Filicaia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- The noble art from Cadmus took its rise
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- On the Invention of Letters. From Brebeuf.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Thoughtful alone through barren wastes I stray
- Page No:
- p.158
- Poem Title:
- Sonetto. From Petrarch.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- O sleep thou gentle offspring of still night's
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- Sonetto. From Monsignor Della Casa.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Soft sleep thou son of silence and of night
- Page No:
- p.159
- Poem Title:
- Sonetto. From Marini.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- A band of cupids the other day
- Page No:
- pp.160-161
- Poem Title:
- A Tale.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- See how on yonder bush
- Page No:
- p.160
- Poem Title:
- From Tasso's Jerusalem. Lib. xvi. Sta. XIV.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Come Meg be quick and make the bed
- Page No:
- p.161
- Poem Title:
- Epigram.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- This poring over your grand cyrus
- Page No:
- pp.161-162
- Poem Title:
- On a Romantick Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Over this marble drop a tear
- Page No:
- p.162
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on a Gallant Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Upon a time as poets tell
- Page No:
- pp.162-163
- Poem Title:
- Orpheus and Euridice. From the Spanish of Quevedo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Chloe her gossips entertains
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To Cloe.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- The budding rose
- Page No:
- p.163
- Poem Title:
- Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Thou who dost all my worldly thoughts employ
- Page No:
- p.164
- Poem Title:
- Verses wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband in London.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- As I was musing by myself alone
- Page No:
- pp.167-170
- Poem Title:
- Mirth and Melancholy.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- War makes the vulgar multitude to drink
- Page No:
- pp.170-172
- Poem Title:
- Dialogue between Peace and War.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Most of our modern writers nowadays
- Page No:
- p.172
- Poem Title:
- Wherein Poetry chiefly consists.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Death is the cook of nature and we find
- Page No:
- p.173
- Poem Title:
- Nature's Cook.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Give me a wit whose fancy's not confined
- Page No:
- p.174
- Poem Title:
- Wit.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Queen Mab and all her company
- Page No:
- pp.174-175
- Poem Title:
- The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairyland, the Centre of the Earth.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- This lovely sweet and beauteous fairy queen
- Page No:
- pp.176-178
- Poem Title:
- The Pastime of the Queen of Fairies, when she comes upon the Earth of the Centre.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Dutchess of Newcastle.'
- Attributed To:
- Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]
- First Line:
- Content the false world's best disguise
- Page No:
- pp.181-183
- Poem Title:
- Content. To my dearest Lucasia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Unworthy since thou hast decreed
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- To the Queen of Inconstancy, Regina Collier, in Antwerp.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- There's no such thing as pleasure here
- Page No:
- pp.184-185
- Poem Title:
- Against Pleasure. An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- If we no old historians name
- Page No:
- pp.185-187
- Poem Title:
- The Enquiry.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- How sacred and how innocent
- Page No:
- pp.187-189
- Poem Title:
- A Country-Life.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Subduing fair what will you win
- Page No:
- p.190
- Poem Title:
- To Lady Elizabeth Boyle, singing a Song, of which Orinda was the Author.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- If honour to an ancient name be due
- Page No:
- pp.191-192
- Poem Title:
- On the Welch Language.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- The things that make a virgin please
- Page No:
- pp.192-193
- Poem Title:
- The Virgin.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Hence Cupid with your cheating toys
- Page No:
- p.193
- Poem Title:
- Against Love.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- My dear Antenor now give over
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- To my Antenor. March 16, 1660-1.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Go soft desires love's gentle progeny
- Page No:
- p.194
- Poem Title:
- Tendres Desires, from French Prose.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Katherine Philips.'
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- Ah shepherd gentle shepherd spare
- Page No:
- pp.197-198
- Poem Title:
- The Petition of the Birds to Mr. Pilkington, on his Return from Shooting.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Hail happy Delville blissful seat
- Page No:
- pp.198-199
- Poem Title:
- Delville, [the Seat of the Rev. Dr. Delany.]
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- While I the godlike men of old
- Page No:
- p.199
- Poem Title:
- To the Rev. Dr. Swift, on his Birth-Day.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- In a fair island in the southern main
- Page No:
- pp.200-206
- Poem Title:
- The Statues: or, The Trial of Constancy. A Tale for the Ladies.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- O spotless paper fair and white
- Page No:
- p.206
- Poem Title:
- Carte Blanche.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- I envy not the proud their wealth
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- Ode in Imitation of Horace.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Shall then my kindred all my glory claim
- Page No:
- p.207
- Poem Title:
- Sent with a Quill to Dr. Swift, upon hearing he had received a Book and Stand-Dish.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- In what recesses of the brain
- Page No:
- pp.208-209
- Poem Title:
- Memory.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Is there a man whose fixed and steady soul
- Page No:
- p.209
- Poem Title:
- Advice to the People of Dublin, in their Choice of a Recorder.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Behold the spring in fresh attire
- Page No:
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- To Strephon. Written for a Lady to her Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- The queen of the fairies this summons does send
- Page No:
- p.210
- Poem Title:
- Queen Mab to Pollio.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Asteria why will you consume
- Page No:
- p.211
- Poem Title:
- The Seventh Ode of the Third Book of Horace. Written in the Absence of her Husband.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- No more loved partner of my soul
- Page No:
- p.212
- Poem Title:
- Consolatory Verses to her Husband.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- While sunk in deepest solitude and woe
- Page No:
- pp.213-214
- Poem Title:
- Sorrow.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Stella darling of the muses
- Page No:
- pp.214-215
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Lying is an occupation
- Page No:
- p.215
- Poem Title:
- A Song.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- O God since all thy ways are just
- Page No:
- p.216
- Poem Title:
- Expostulation. Written in Distress.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Hail holy sage whose comprehensive mind
- Page No:
- pp.217-218
- Poem Title:
- To the Reverend Dr. Hales.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- When you advised me sir to choose
- Page No:
- pp.218-220
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Cibber. On his asking for something entire new.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Since so oft to the great of my favours you boast
- Page No:
- pp.220-221
- Poem Title:
- To the Hon. Colonel D--nc----be.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- As God who now does as in times of old
- Page No:
- pp.221-222
- Poem Title:
- To his Grace the Lord Archbishop of York.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Deuce on it I wonder what the author means
- Page No:
- pp.223-224
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue to Virtue Ttiumphant [sic].
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- My lord my saviour and my god
- Page No:
- p.224
- Poem Title:
- Written on her Death-Bed.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington.'
- Attributed To:
- Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]
- First Line:
- Best gift that heavens indulgence could bestow
- Page No:
- pp.227-228
- Poem Title:
- In Praise of Memory. Inscribed to the Honourable the Lady Worsley.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- To thee my God I hourly sigh
- Page No:
- pp.228-229
- Poem Title:
- Hymn on the Deity.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- And art thou mine my dearest lord
- Page No:
- p.229
- Poem Title:
- Hymn on the Sacrament.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- Long struggling in the agonies of death
- Page No:
- pp.230-232
- Poem Title:
- Dialogue between the Fallen Angels and a Human Spirit just entered into the other World.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- Oh lead me to some solitary gloom
- Page No:
- pp.232-233
- Poem Title:
- Despair.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- Already from before the sacred throne
- Page No:
- pp.233-234
- Poem Title:
- Revelation. Chap. xvi.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- In what soft language shall my thoughts get free
- Page No:
- pp.235-238
- Poem Title:
- On the Death of Mr. Thomas Rowe.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- My God my great deliverer and my trust
- Page No:
- p.235
- Poem Title:
- Hymn of Thanks on my Recovery from the Small-Pox.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe.'
- Attributed To:
- Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]
- First Line:
- A brazen pot by scouring vexed
- Page No:
- pp.241-242
- Poem Title:
- The Brass Pot, and Stone Jugg. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Two long had loved and now the nymph desired
- Page No:
- p.243
- Poem Title:
- Ther's [sic] No To-Morrow. A Fable. Imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- What art thou spleen which every thing dost ape
- Page No:
- pp.243-248
- Poem Title:
- The Spleen. A Pindarick Poem.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Methinks the world is oddly made
- Page No:
- pp.248-249
- Poem Title:
- The Atheist, and the Acorn.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- No cautions of a matron old and sage
- Page No:
- pp.249-251
- Poem Title:
- The Young Rat and his Dam, the Cock and the Cat.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- No sooner Flavio was you gone
- Page No:
- pp.252-255
- Poem Title:
- To Mr. Finch, now Earl of Whichelsea, who, going abroad, had desired Ardelia to write some Verses upon whatever Subject she thought fit, against his Return in the Evening.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- The queen of birds to increase the regal stock
- Page No:
- pp.255-256
- Poem Title:
- The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Reputation love and death
- Page No:
- pp.257-258
- Poem Title:
- Love, Death, and Reputation.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Fortune well pictured on a rolling globe
- Page No:
- pp.258-260
- Poem Title:
- The Decision of Fortune. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Who does not wish ever to judge aright
- Page No:
- pp.260-261
- Poem Title:
- The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, carrying to a Fair.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Cupid ere deprived of sight
- Page No:
- pp.261-262
- Poem Title:
- Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the French.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Disarmed with so genteel an air
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- Answer to the foregoing Verses.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- In vain you boast poetic names of yore
- Page No:
- p.263
- Poem Title:
- To Lady Winchelsea, occasioned by some Verses in the Rape of Lock.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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