Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great Britain and Ireland [N21034] [vol I] [ecco]

DMI number:

1639

Publication Date:

1785

Volume Number:

1 of 2

ESTC number:

N21034

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112315144

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod

Full Title:

POEMS | BY THE MOST | EMINENT LADIES | OF | [i]GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.[/i] | REPUBLISHED FROM THE COLLECTION OF | G. COLMAN and B. THORNTON [i]Esqrs.[/i] | WITH CONSIDERABLE | Alterations, Additions, and Improvements. | [rule] | VOL. I. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and Sold by W. Stafford, Bookseller, and Stationer, Market Street, Oxford Road. | [[i]Price Seven Shillings and Six-pence, in Boards.[/i]]

Epigraph:

[i]Song, Beauty, Youth, Love, Virtue, Joy! this group | Of bright Ideas, Flow'rs of Paradise, | As yet unforfeit! in one blaze we bind, | Kneel, and present it.[/i] YOUNG.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of literary verse

Format:

Duodecimo

Price:

Seven Shillings and Six-pence, in Boards

Bibliographic details:

'and Sold' crossed out by hand on title page. Half title: [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY THE MOST | EMINENT LADIES | OF GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND. | [ornamental rule] Separate title pages introduce the works of Barbauld, Behn, Carter, Chudleigh, Cockburn, Collier, Grierson, Jones, Killigrew, Leapor.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Preface pp. 5-vii; Advertisement [1p]

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Title:

Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great Britain and Ireland [N21034] [vol II] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1785

ESTC No:

N21034

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Related People

Printer:

W. Stafford

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Tis time to conclude for I make it a rule

Page No:

pp.13-16

Poem Title:

Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C-

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

Ierne's now our royal care

Page No:

pp.16-18

Poem Title:

Apollo's Edict.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

A curious statue we are told

Page No:

p.19

Poem Title:

On sending my Son as a present to Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, on his Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

Though the muse had denied me so often before

Page No:

p.20

Poem Title:

To the Right Hon. the Earl of Orrery, on his Promise to sup with the Author.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

To the late king of Britain a savage was brought

Page No:

p.21

Poem Title:

To the Right Hon. John Barber, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, on committing one of my Sons to his Care.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

How I succeed you kindly ask

Page No:

pp.22-26

Poem Title:

To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs, Mary Barber'.

Attributed To:

Mary Barber

First Line:

Oh hear a pensive prisoner's prayer

Page No:

pp.28-30

Poem Title:

The Mouse's Petition. Found in the Trap, where he had been confined all Night.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Barbauld.'

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

Now the moonbeam's trembling lustre

Page No:

pp.30-32

Poem Title:

Verses, Written in an Alcove.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Barbauld.'

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

O thou the nymph of placid eye

Page No:

pp.32-33

Poem Title:

Hymn to Content.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Barbauld.'

Attributed To:

Anna Letitia Barbauld [nee Aikin]

First Line:

When Jemmy first began to love

Page No:

pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Scots Song.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Behn.'

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In the blooming time of the year

Page No:

pp.37-39

Poem Title:

Sylvio's Complaint. A Song, To a fine Scotch Tune.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Behn.'

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

What mean those amorous curls of jet

Page No:

p.40

Poem Title:

In Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Behn.'

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

As wretched vain and indiscreet

Page No:

p.41

Poem Title:

Song.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Behn.'

Attributed To:

Aphra Behn

First Line:

In that soft month when Spring's reviving power

Page No:

pp.42-45

Poem Title:

Pastoral I. Delia and Aminta.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Two Pastorals by Mrs. Brooke'.

Attributed To:

Frances Brooke [née Moore]

First Line:

As late to shun the noon day's scorching heat

Page No:

pp.45-46

Poem Title:

Pastoral II. Palemon.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Two Pastorals by Mrs. Brooke'.

Attributed To:

Frances Brooke [née Moore]

First Line:

The solitary bird of night

Page No:

pp.48-52

Poem Title:

Ode to Wisdom.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Carter.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

In plaintive sounds that tuned to woe

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman. On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his prospect.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Carter.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Come melancholy silent power

Page No:

pp.53-56

Poem Title:

Ode to Melancholy.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Carter.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Let coward guilt with pallid fear

Page No:

pp.56-57

Poem Title:

Written at Midnight, In A Thunder Storm.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Carter.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

While night in solemn shade invest the pole

Page No:

pp.58-59

Poem Title:

A Night-Piece.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Carter.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Carter

First Line:

Celestial maid receive this prayer

Page No:

pp.60-61

Poem Title:

Hymn To Prosperity

Attribution:

By Miss Sally Carter.

Attributed To:

Sally Carter

First Line:

Thou gentle nurse of pleasing woe

Page No:

pp.62-64

Poem Title:

Ode to Solitude.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Chapone.

Attributed To:

Hester Chapone [née Mulso]

First Line:

Wife and servant are the same

Page No:

pp.66-67

Poem Title:

To The Ladies.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'

Attributed To:

Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]

First Line:

For what the world admires I'll wish no more

Page No:

pp.67-68

Poem Title:

The Resolve.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'

Attributed To:

Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]

First Line:

Tell me Marissa by what rule

Page No:

pp.68-74

Poem Title:

The Inquiry. A Dialogue between Cleanthe and Marissa.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'

Attributed To:

Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]

First Line:

Attend ye numerous daring throng who strive

Page No:

pp.76-78

Poem Title:

Calliope's Directions How to deserve and distinguish the Muses Inspiration.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Soft kisses may be innocent

Page No:

p.79

Poem Title:

The Caution.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Why do you thus alarm my soul

Page No:

pp.79-80

Poem Title:

The Platonic.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Thou dear returning lovely swain

Page No:

pp.80-81

Poem Title:

The Needless Deceit.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Of Albion's splendid court unmoved I hear

Page No:

pp.81-85

Poem Title:

A Poem, Occasioned by the Busts set up in the Queen's Hermitage. Designed to be presented with a Vindication of Mr. Locke, which was to have been inscribed to her Majesty.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Ah gaze not on those eyes forbear

Page No:

p.85

Poem Title:

Song. The Vain Advice.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn'.

Attributed To:

Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]

First Line:

Ah me what pangs a tender heart must feel

Page No:

p.87

Poem Title:

To a Friend in Affliction.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Collier.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Collier

First Line:

To thee my Digby I devote my lay

Page No:

pp.89-91

Poem Title:

Verses, Addressed to Mrs. Digby. On the Anniversary of their Acquaintance, which commenced at Quebec, October 7, 1768.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Collier.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Collier

First Line:

No more will I attempt to sing

Page No:

pp.92-94

Poem Title:

Ode

Attribution:

By Mrs. Darwall.

Attributed To:

Mary Darwall [nee Whateley]

First Line:

Oft I've implored the gods in vain

Page No:

pp.95-97

Poem Title:

Prayer for Indifference.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Greville.

Attributed To:

Frances Greville [nee Macartney]

First Line:

Without preamble to my friend

Page No:

pp.98-100

Poem Title:

The Fairy's Answer To Mrs. Greville

Attribution:

By The Countess of C--.

Attributed To:

Not attributed

First Line:

The fleeting birds may soon in ocean swim

Page No:

pp.102-103

Poem Title:

To Miss Laetitia Van Lewen. (Afterwards Mrs. Pilkington,) at a Country Assize.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Grierson'.

Attributed To:

Constantia Grierson

First Line:

If my Laetitia still persists to love

Page No:

p.104

Poem Title:

To the Same, on the Same Occasion.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Grierson'.

Attributed To:

Constantia Grierson

First Line:

In various forms have I been shown

Page No:

pp.105-106

Poem Title:

The Speech of Cupid, Upon seeing himself Painted by the Hon. Miss Carteret, (now Countess of Dysart,) on a Fan.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Grierson'.

Attributed To:

Constantia Grierson

First Line:

You look surprised in this deriding age

Page No:

pp.107-108

Poem Title:

Prologue to Theodosius: Spoken by Athenais, at the Theatre in Dublin, when Lord and Lady Carteret were in Ireland.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Grierson'.

Attributed To:

Constantia Grierson

First Line:

Wandering over the dewy meadow

Page No:

pp.109-110

Poem Title:

Invocation to the Nightingale

Attribution:

By Miss Heys.

Attributed To:

Mary Hays

First Line:

How much of paper's spoiled what floods of ink

Page No:

pp.112-116

Poem Title:

An Epistle to Lady Bowyer.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Patience my lord a virtue rare I grant

Page No:

pp.117-127

Poem Title:

Of Patience. An Epistle To the Right Hon. Samuel Lord Masham.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Whence these impetuous movements of the breast

Page No:

pp.128-133

Poem Title:

Of Desire, An Epistle To the Honourable Miss Lovelace.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Shall so much worth in silence pass away

Page No:

pp.134-139

Poem Title:

In Memory of The Right Hon. Lord Aubrey Beauclerk, Who was slain at Carthagena. (Written in the Year 1743, at the request of his Lady.)

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

A squire who long had fed on ale

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

To Mrs. Clayton, With a Hare.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Now ponder well Miss Clayton dear

Page No:

pp.140-142

Poem Title:

To Miss Clayton. Occasioned by her breaking an Appointment to visit the Author.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

O all ye spotted brutes that guard the fair

Page No:

pp.142-144

Poem Title:

Elegy On a favourite Dog, suppos'd to be poison'd. To Miss Molly Clayton.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

The sun had left the western road

Page No:

pp.145-147

Poem Title:

The Spider.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

When skilful traders first set up

Page No:

pp.147-148

Poem Title:

After the Small-Pox.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

At the brow of a hill a fair shepherdess dwelt

Page No:

pp.148-150

Poem Title:

The Lass of the Hill. Humbly Inscribed to Her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Since kings and queens and dutchesses must die

Page No:

pp.150-152

Poem Title:

Holt Waters. A Tale. Extracted from the Natural History of Berkshire.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Alas my purse how lean and low

Page No:

pp.157-159

Poem Title:

Soliloquy On an Empty Purse.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Charlotte who my controller is chief

Page No:

pp.159-162

Poem Title:

Epistle from Fern-Hill.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

In the calm hour when pleasure most prevails

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

In Memory Of The Right Honourable Nevil Lord Lovelace.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

The summit reached of earthly joys

Page No:

pp.165-166

Poem Title:

Ode, To The Right Honourable Lady Henry Beauclerk, On her Marriage.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Jones'.

Attributed To:

Mary Jones

First Line:

Seest thou yonder craggy rock

Page No:

pp.168-170

Poem Title:

The Complaint of a Lover.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Anne Killigrew.'

Attributed To:

Anne Killigrew

First Line:

When first Alexis did in verse delight

Page No:

pp.170-171

Poem Title:

Love, The Soul of Poetry.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Anne Killigrew.'

Attributed To:

Anne Killigrew

First Line:

Next heaven my vows to thee o sacred muse

Page No:

pp.171-173

Poem Title:

Upon the saying that my Verses were made my Another.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Anne Killigrew.'

Attributed To:

Anne Killigrew

First Line:

Dorinda once the fairest of the train

Page No:

pp.175-179

Poem Title:

Dorinda at her Glass.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Imprimis my departed shade I trust

Page No:

pp.180-181

Poem Title:

Myra's Will.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

My guardian bear me on thy downy wing

Page No:

pp.181-182

Poem Title:

A Summer's Wish.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain

Page No:

pp.182-185

Poem Title:

Colinetta.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Hail Phillis brighter than a morning sky

Page No:

pp.185-188

Poem Title:

The Month of August. Sylvanus, a Courtier. Phillis, a Country Maid.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

In vain dear madam yes in vain you strive

Page No:

pp.188-190

Poem Title:

An Epistle to a Lady.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

May Artemisia hear my strain

Page No:

pp.191-195

Poem Title:

The Proclamation of Apollo.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Nothing dear madam nothing is more true

Page No:

pp.195-199

Poem Title:

Essay on Happiness.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

To you who never the willing verse refuse

Page No:

pp.199-202

Poem Title:

An Essay on Hope.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Almighty wisdom at whose nod

Page No:

pp.202-204

Poem Title:

A Prayer for the Year 1745.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Strephon the sprightly and the gay

Page No:

pp.204-210

Poem Title:

The Mistaken Lover.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill

Page No:

pp.210-214

Poem Title:

The Way of the World.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Madam | I hope you'll think it's true

Page No:

pp.215-216

Poem Title:

Strephon to Celia. A modern Love-Letter.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

To you dear madam I complain

Page No:

pp.217-221

Poem Title:

The Inspired Quill. Occasioned by a Present of Crow-Pens.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

When merit rises like the prince of day

Page No:

pp.221-227

Poem Title:

The Libyan Hunter. A Fable. Inscribed to the Memory of a late admired Author.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

When lonely night composed the drowsy mind

Page No:

pp.227-230

Poem Title:

The Temple of Love. A Dream.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

If you dear Celia cannot bear

Page No:

pp.230-232

Poem Title:

The Sacrifice. An Epistle to Celia.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

O Goddess of eternal smiles

Page No:

pp.232-234

Poem Title:

The Power, of Beauty.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

What pictures now shall wanton fancy bring

Page No:

pp.234-235

Poem Title:

Winter.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

As some grave matron bred on rural downs

Page No:

pp.235-237

Poem Title:

To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

As Silvia in her garden strayed

Page No:

pp.238-239

Poem Title:

Silvia and the Bee.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

In days of yore ere Britons grew too wise

Page No:

pp.240-258

Poem Title:

Mopsus: Or, The Castle-Builder.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight

Page No:

pp.258-259

Poem Title:

Advice to Sophronia.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Within the bounds of yonder fruitful plain

Page No:

pp.260-263

Poem Title:

Corydon. Phillario. Or, Mira's Picture. A Pastoral.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor

First Line:

Welcome dear wanderer once more

Page No:

pp.263-264

Poem Title:

Upon her Play being returned to her, stained with Claret.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'

Attributed To:

Mary Leapor