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

DMI number:

1640

Publication Date:

1785

Volume Number:

2 of 2

ESTC number:

N21034

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW112612697

Shelfmark:

ECCO - Bod (ECCO copy incomplete)

Full Title:

POEMS | BY THE MOST | EMINENT LADIES | OF | [i]GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND.[/i] | RE-PUBLISHED FROM THE COLLECTION OF | G. COLMAN and B. THORNTON [i]Esqrs.[/i] | WITH CONSIDERABLE | [i]Alterations, Additions, and Improvements.[/i] | [rule] | VOL. II. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed and Sold by W. Stafford, Bookseller, and | Stationer, No. 4, [i]Market Street, Oxford Road.[/i]

Epigraph:

[i]Song, Beauty, Youth, Love, Virtue, Joy! this group | Of bright Ideas, Flow'rs of Paradice, | 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

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 Madan, Montagu, Monk, Pennington, Philips, Pilkington, Hampden Pye, Roberts, Rowe, Savage, Scott, Whately, Winchelsea, ECCO copy wanting pp. 77-80.

Other matter:

End matter: Contents of the first volume pp. 227-232; Contents of the second volume pp. 233-238; Subscription list pp. 239-248.

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Title:

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

Publication Date:

1785

ESTC No:

N21034

Volume:

1 of 2

Relationship:

Volume from the same edition

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Ye lovely maids whose yet unpractised hearts

Page No:

pp.5-8

Poem Title:

The Art of Coquetry.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Lennox.

Attributed To:

Charlotte Lennox

First Line:

In my dark cell low prostrate on the ground

Page No:

pp.10-16

Poem Title:

Abelard and Eloisa.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Madan.'

Attributed To:

Judith Madan [nee Cowper]

First Line:

O thou who labourst in this rugged mine

Page No:

p.16

Poem Title:

Verses Written in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Madan.'

Attributed To:

Judith Madan [nee Cowper]

First Line:

Long hath it been the critic's poor delight

Page No:

pp.17-18

Poem Title:

Defence of Myrtillo.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters'.

Attributed To:

Mary Masters

First Line:

Lucinda you in vain dissuade

Page No:

pp.19-20

Poem Title:

To Lucinda.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Masters'.

Attributed To:

Mary Masters

First Line:

Roxana from the court retiring late

Page No:

pp.23-25

Poem Title:

Town Eclogues...Monday. Roxanal or, the Drawing-Room.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Thou who so many favours had received

Page No:

pp.26-29

Poem Title:

Tuesday. St. James's Coffee-House. Silliander and Patch.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

No fair Dancinda no you strive in vain

Page No:

pp.30-33

Poem Title:

Wednesday. The Tete-A-Tete. Dancinda.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

The wretched Flavia on her couch reclined

Page No:

pp.33-36

Poem Title:

Saturday. The Small-Pox. Flavia.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Read lovely nymph and tremble not to read

Page No:

pp.37-40

Poem Title:

Epistle From Arthur Gray, the Footman. After his Condemnation for attempting a Rape.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

At length by so much importunity pressed

Page No:

pp.41-43

Poem Title:

The Lover. A Ballad. Mr. C--.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame

Page No:

p.43

Poem Title:

The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Window.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame

Page No:

p.44

Poem Title:

The Gentleman's Answer.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Lady M. W. Montague'.

Attributed To:

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]

First Line:

As a kind mother with indulgent eye

Page No:

pp.47-48

Poem Title:

On Providence. From Filicaia.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

The noble art from Cadmus took its rise

Page No:

p.48

Poem Title:

On the Invention of Letters. From Brebeuf.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Thoughtful alone through barren wastes I stray

Page No:

pp.48-49

Poem Title:

Sonetto. From Petrarch.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

O sleep thou gentle offspring of still night's

Page No:

p.49

Poem Title:

Sonetto. From Monsignor Della Casa.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

See how on yonder bush

Page No:

pp.50-51

Poem Title:

From Tasso's Jerusalem, Liv. XVI. Sta. XIV.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Soft sleep thou son of silence and of night

Page No:

p.50

Poem Title:

Sonetto. From Marini.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

A band of cupids the other day

Page No:

pp.51-52

Poem Title:

A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Come Meg be quick and make the bed

Page No:

p.52

Poem Title:

Epigram.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

This poring over your grand cyrus

Page No:

pp.52-53

Poem Title:

On a Romantic Lady.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Over this marble drop a tear

Page No:

p.53

Poem Title:

An Epitaph on a Gallant Lady.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Upon a time as poets tell

Page No:

pp.53-54

Poem Title:

Orpheus and Eurydice. From the Spanish of Quevedo.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Thou who dost all my worldly thought employ

Page No:

p.55

Poem Title:

Verses. Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk'.

Attributed To:

Mary Monck

First Line:

Queen Mab and all her company

Page No:

pp.56-58

Poem Title:

The Pastime and Recreation. Of The Queen of Fairies in Fairyland, The Centre of the Earth.

Attribution:

By the Dutchess of Newcastle.

Attributed To:

Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]

First Line:

This lovely sweet and beauteous fairy queen

Page No:

pp.58-60

Poem Title:

The Pastime Of The Queen of Fairies, When she comes upon the Earth out of the Centre.

Attribution:

By the Dutchess of Newcastle.

Attributed To:

Margaret Cavendish [nee Lucas]

First Line:

Hail roseate morn returning light

Page No:

pp.63-64

Poem Title:

Ode To Morning.

Attribution:

By Miss Pennington.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Pennington

First Line:

Happy the boy who dwells remote from school

Page No:

pp.65-69

Poem Title:

The Copper Farthing.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Miss Pennington.'

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Pennington

First Line:

There's no such thing as pleasure here

Page No:

pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Against Pleasure, An Ode.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Philips.

Attributed To:

Katherine Philips

First Line:

How sacred and how innocent

Page No:

p.74-??

Poem Title:

A Country Life.

Attribution:

Under 'Poems By Mrs. Philips'.

Attributed To:

Katherine Philips

First Line:

My dear Antenor now give over

Page No:

p.??-81

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

Under 'Poems By Mrs. Philips'.

Attributed To:

Katherine Philips

First Line:

Ah shepherd gentle shepherd spare

Page No:

pp.85-86

Poem Title:

The Petition of the Birds To Mr. Pilkington. On his Return from Shooting.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

While I the godlike men of old

Page No:

pp.86-87

Poem Title:

To the Rev. Dr. Swift, On his Birth-Day.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

In a fair island in the southern main

Page No:

pp.87-94

Poem Title:

The Statues: Or, The Trial of Constancy. A Tale. For the Ladies.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

O spotless paper fair and white

Page No:

p.95

Poem Title:

Carte Blanche.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Shall then my kindred all my glory claim

Page No:

p.96

Poem Title:

Sent with a Quill to Dr. Swift. Upon hearing he had received a Book and Stand-Dish.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

I envy not the proud their wealth

Page No:

p.97

Poem Title:

Ode In Imitation of Horace.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Behold the spring in fresh attire

Page No:

p.98

Poem Title:

To Strephon. Written for a Lady to her Lover.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

The queen of the fairies this summons does send

Page No:

pp.98-99

Poem Title:

Queen Mab to Pollio.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Asteria why will you consume

Page No:

pp.99-100

Poem Title:

The Seventh Ode. Of the Third Book of Horace paraphrased. Written in the Absence of her Husband.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

No more loved partner of my soul

Page No:

pp.100-101

Poem Title:

Consolatory Verses To her Husband.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Stella darling of the muses

Page No:

pp.101-102

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Lying is an occupation

Page No:

p.102

Poem Title:

A Song.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

O God since all thy ways are just

Page No:

pp.103-104

Poem Title:

Expostulation. Written in Distress.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

When you advised me sir to choose

Page No:

pp.104-106

Poem Title:

To Mr. Cibber. On his asking for something entirely New.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

Since so oft to the great of my favours you boast

Page No:

pp.106-107

Poem Title:

To the Hon. Colonel D-nc-be.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Pilkington.'

Attributed To:

Laetitia Pilkington [nee van Lewen]

First Line:

If yet thy thoughts confess their former flame

Page No:

pp.111-116

Poem Title:

Elgiva to Edwy

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Hampden Pye.'

Attributed To:

Jael Henrietta Pye [nee Mendez; other married name Campbell]

First Line:

Earl Walter stroked his milk white steed

Page No:

pp.116-121

Poem Title:

Earl Walter.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Hampden Pye.'

Attributed To:

Jael Henrietta Pye [nee Mendez; other married name Campbell]

First Line:

Thou great director of the soul

Page No:

pp.125-126

Poem Title:

On a supposed Slight from a Friend.

Attribution:

By Miss Roberts.

Attributed To:

Miss Roberts

First Line:

The silent tear that steals adown the cheek

Page No:

pp.126-127

Poem Title:

Effusions of Melancholy.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Roberts.'

Attributed To:

Miss Roberts

First Line:

Oh lead me to some solitary gloom

Page No:

pp.131-132

Poem Title:

Despair.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Rowe.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

In what soft language shall my thoughts get free

Page No:

pp.132-135

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. Thomas Rowe.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Mrs. Rowe'.

Attributed To:

Elizabeth Rowe [nee Singer]

First Line:

Avaunt mistrust be gone pale fear

Page No:

pp.139-140

Poem Title:

Nothing New.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

To doggerel now I turn my pen

Page No:

pp.141-143

Poem Title:

Letter to Miss E. B. at Bath.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

No longer my friend will I silent remain

Page No:

pp.143-146

Poem Title:

Letter to my Friend, E. B.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Close by a wood which graced a hill

Page No:

pp.146-149

Poem Title:

The Recluse and Fortune.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Suppose a female young and fair

Page No:

pp.150-154

Poem Title:

Miss Fashion. A Tale.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Distant from court and far removed

Page No:

p.155-159

Poem Title:

Oeconomy.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Echo thou gentle nymph forbear

Page No:

p.155

Poem Title:

To Echo.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

In times of yore as I've been told

Page No:

pp.159-162

Poem Title:

Merit.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

As Cupid in his cradle lay

Page No:

pp.162-164

Poem Title:

The Prophecy.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Hail heaven born nymph sweet peace oh hear

Page No:

pp.164-165

Poem Title:

Ode to Peace of Mind.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

I aim not to decide the case

Page No:

pp.166-168

Poem Title:

A Transient Thought.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Mrs. Savage.'

Attributed To:

Mrs. Savage

First Line:

Dunnotter's ruined pride and falling towers

Page No:

pp.171-175

Poem Title:

Dunnotter Castle.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Scott'.

Attributed To:

Miss Scott

First Line:

Lord how shall wretched sinners dare

Page No:

pp.176-177

Poem Title:

Verses, On a Day of Prayer, for Success in War.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Scott'.

Attributed To:

Miss Scott

First Line:

The tree of deepest root is found

Page No:

pp.178-179

Poem Title:

The Three Warnings. A Tale.

Attribution:

By Mrs. Thrale.

Attributed To:

Hester Lynch Piozzi [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale]

First Line:

By Yarrow stream that glides along

Page No:

pp.180-183

Poem Title:

Conal and Mary.

Attribution:

By Miss Tomlins.

Attributed To:

Miss Tomlins

First Line:

Fairest daughter of the year

Page No:

pp.187-188

Poem Title:

Ode to May.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Whately'.

Attributed To:

Mary Darwall [nee Whateley]

First Line:

Queen of the halycon breast and heavenward eye

Page No:

pp.189-192

Poem Title:

The Pleasures of Contemplation.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems by Miss Whately'.

Attributed To:

Mary Darwall [nee Whateley]

First Line:

A brazen pot by scouring vexed

Page No:

pp.195-197

Poem Title:

The Brass Pot and Stone Jugg. A Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Two long had loved and now the nymph desired

Page No:

pp.197-198

Poem Title:

There's No To-Morrow. A Fable. Imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

What art thou spleen which every thing dost ape

Page No:

pp.198-203

Poem Title:

The Spleen. A Pindarick Poem.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Methinks the world is oddly made

Page No:

pp.203-204

Poem Title:

The Atheist and the Acorn.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

No cautions of a matron old and sage

Page No:

pp.204-207

Poem Title:

The Young Rat and his Dam, The Cock and the Cat.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

No sooner Flavio was you gone

Page No:

pp.207-211

Poem Title:

To Mr. Finch, now Earl of Winchelsea. Who, going abroad, had desired Ardelia to write some Verses upon whatever subject she thought fit, against his return in the evening. Written in the Year 1689.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

The queen of birds to increase the regal stock

Page No:

pp.211-213

Poem Title:

The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Reputation love and death

Page No:

pp.213-215

Poem Title:

Love, Death, and Reputation.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Fortune well pictured on a rolling globe

Page No:

pp.215-217

Poem Title:

The Decision of Fortune. A Fable.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Who does not wish ever to judge aright

Page No:

pp.218-219

Poem Title:

The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, Carrying to a Fair.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Cupid ere deprived of sight

Page No:

pp.219-220

Poem Title:

Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the French.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

Disarmed with so genteel an air

Page No:

pp.221-223

Poem Title:

Answer.

Attribution:

Collected under 'Poems By Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'

Attributed To:

Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]

First Line:

In vain you boast poetic names of yore

Page No:

p.221

Poem Title:

To Lady Winchelsea, Occasioned by some Verses in the Rape of the Lock.

Attribution:

By Mr. Pope.

Attributed To:

Alexander Pope