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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