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Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. I]

DMI number:
819
Publication Date:
1773
Volume Number:
1 of 2
ESTC number:
T144911
EEBO/ECCO link:
CW111486049
Shelfmark:
BL 11602.bb.4
Full Title:
POEMS | BY THE MOST | [i]EMINENT LADIES[/i] | OF | GREAT-BRITAIN AND IRELAND. | PARTICULARLY, | [2 columns] [column 1]Mrs. BARBER, | Mrs. BEHN, | Miss CARTER, | Lady CHUDLEIGH, | Mrs. COCKBURN, | Mrs. GRIERSON, | Mrs. JONES, | Mrs. KILLIGREW, | Mrs. LEAPOR,[/column 1] [column 2]Mrs. MADAN, | Mrs. MASTERS, | Lady M. W. MONTAGUE, | Mrs. MONK, | Dutchess of NEWCASTLE, | Mrs. K. PHILIPS, | Mrs. PILKINGTON, | Mrs. ROWE, | Lady WINCHELSEA.[/column 2] | Selected, with an Account of the Writers, by | G. COLMAN and B. THORNTON, Esqrs. | [epigraph] | A NEW EDITION. | VOL. I. | LONDON: | PRINTED FOR T. BECKET AND CO. AND | T. EVANS, AT NO. 50, NEAR YORK- | BUILDINGS, STRAND. | M DCC LXXIII.
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:
London
Genres:
Miscellany associated with group of poets and Collection including prose
Format:
Duodecimo
Pagination:
[2], [iii]-x, [2], 1-312.
Bibliographic details:
The poems are arranged by author; each section has a half-title followed by a short prose biography of the poet in question. HALF-TITLES: [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. MARY BARBER. [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. APHRA BEHN. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Miss ELIZA CARTER. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Lady CHUDLEIGH | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. COCKBURN. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. GRIERSON. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. MARY JONES. | [ornamental rule]
Comments:
QUERY: do we need a miscellany genre 'collection of/by women writers'? T144911 is in two volumes; they are entered in this database as separate records.
Other matter:
Prefatory material: Preface (2pp.); 'Contents of the First Volume' (6pp.);
References:
Chantel Lavoie, "Poems by Eminent Ladies: a study of an eighteenth-century anthology", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Toronto, 1999
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Title:
Poems by eminent ladies [vol 1] [T42592] [ecco]
Publication Date:
1755
ESTC No:
T42592
Volume:
1 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
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Another Edition of
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Editor:
Bonnell Thornton
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Comments:
Editor:
George Colman
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Publisher:
Thomas Becket
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Content/Publication
First Line:
A mother who vast pleasure finds
Page No:
pp.7-10
Poem Title:
A True Tale.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
What is it our mammas bewitches
Page No:
pp.10-12
Poem Title:
Written for my Son, and spoken by him at his first putting on Breeches.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
All bounteous heaven Castalio cries
Page No:
pp.12-14
Poem Title:
An unanswerable Apology for the Rich.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Wearied with long attendance on the court
Page No:
pp.14-16
Poem Title:
Widow Gordon's Petition. To the Right Hon. the Lady Carteret.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Eternal king is there one hour
Page No:
p.16
Poem Title:
Written in the Conclusion of A Letter to Mr. Tickel, Intreating him to recommend the Widow Gordon's Petition.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Though rhyme serves the thoughts of great poets to fetter
Page No:
pp.17-20
Poem Title:
The Prodigy. A Letter to a Friend in the Country.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Sincerity what are thy views
Page No:
pp.20-21
Poem Title:
Sincerity. A Poem. Occasion'd by a Friend's resenting some Advice I gave.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Our master in a fatal hour
Page No:
pp.21-22
Poem Title:
Written for my Son, and spoken by him in School, upon his Master's first bringing in a Rod.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Tis time to conclude for I make it a rule
Page No:
pp.22-25
Poem Title:
Conclusion of a Letter to the Rev. Mr. C--.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Were princes graced with souls like thine
Page No:
p.22
Poem Title:
To his Grace the Duke of Chandos.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mary Barber'.
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Once Jupiter from out the skies
Page No:
pp.25-26
Poem Title:
Jupiter and Fortune. A Fable.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
As in some wealthy trading town
Page No:
pp.26-27
Poem Title:
A Letter to a Friend, on occasion of some Libels written against him.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Dear Rose as I lately was writing some verse
Page No:
pp.28-29
Poem Title:
A Letter for my Son to one of his Schoolfellows, Son to Henry Rose, Esq;
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
My lord of Killala I find to my sorrow
Page No:
pp.29-30
Poem Title:
Apology to Dr. Clayton, Bishop of Killala, and his Lady, who had promis'd to dine with the Author.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Ierne's now our royal care
Page No:
pp.30-32
Poem Title:
Apollo's Edict.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
This mourning mother can with ease explore
Page No:
pp.33-34
Poem Title:
Occasion'd by seeing some Verses written by Mrs. Grierson, upon the Death of her Son.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
An oak with spreading branches crowned
Page No:
pp.34-35
Poem Title:
The Oak and its Branches A Fable. Occasion'd by seeing a dead Oak beautifully encompassed with Ivy.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
A curious statue we are told
Page No:
pp.35-36
Poem Title:
On sending my Son as a Present to Dr. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, on his Birth-Day.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Stella and Flavia every hour
Page No:
pp.36-37
Poem Title:
Stella and Flavia.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
How well these laymen love to gibe
Page No:
pp.37-38
Poem Title:
An Apology for the Clergy, who were present when the Minister of the Parish read Prayers and preach'd twice in one Day, at Tunbridge. Written at the request of a Layman.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Hither amongst the crowds that shun
Page No:
pp.38-39
Poem Title:
Written upon the Rocks at Tunbridge, on seeing the Names of several Persons written there.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Though the muse had denied me so often before
Page No:
p.39
Poem Title:
To the Right Hon. the Earl of Orrery, on his Promise to sup with the the Author.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
O thou with every virtue graced
Page No:
pp.40-43
Poem Title:
To Mrs. Strangeways Horner, with a Letter from my Son; wherein he desires me to accept his first Prize of Learning, conferr'd on him by the University of Dublin.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
When I heard you were landed I flew to the nine
Page No:
pp.43-44
Poem Title:
An Invitation to Edward Walpole, Esq; upon hearing he was landed in Dublin.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
To the late king of Britain a savage was brought
Page No:
p.44
Poem Title:
To the Right Honourable John Barber, Esq; Lord Mayor of London, on committing one of my Sons to his Care.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Ye heedless fair who trifle life away
Page No:
p.45
Poem Title:
Advice to the Ladies at Bath.
Attribution:
Written by a Lady.
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
Well you sincerity display
Page No:
p.45
Poem Title:
To a Lady, who valu'd herself on speaking her Mind in a blunt Manner, which she call'd being sincere.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
How I succeed you kindly ask
Page No:
pp.46-50
Poem Title:
To a Lady, who commanded me to send her an Account in Verse, how I succeeded in my Subscription.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Barber.'
Attributed To:
Mary Barber
First Line:
Here lies a proof that wit can never be
Page No:
p.58
Poem Title:
Mrs. Aphra Behn died April 1689.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
At last dear Lycidas I'll set thee free
Page No:
pp.59-61
Poem Title:
A Voyage To The Isle Of Love. An account from Lisander to Lycidas his friend.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
With you unhappy eyes that first let in
Page No:
pp.61-66
Poem Title:
The Truce.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Love when he shoots abroad his darts
Page No:
pp.66-68
Poem Title:
Love's Power.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Such charms of youth such ravishment
Page No:
pp.68-73
Poem Title:
The Character.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Him whom you see so awful and severe
Page No:
pp.73-75
Poem Title:
Respect.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
A neighbouring villa which derives its name
Page No:
pp.75-76
Poem Title:
Inquietude.
Attribution:
Collected under section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
What differing passions from what once I felt
Page No:
pp.76-78
Poem Title:
The Reflection.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Thither all the amorous youth repair
Page No:
pp.78-81
Poem Title:
Little Cares, or Little Arts to please.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
All trembling in my arms Aminta lay
Page No:
pp.81-83
Poem Title:
The Dream.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Tis wondrous populous from the excess
Page No:
pp.83-84
Poem Title:
Hope.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
This river's called pretension and its source
Page No:
pp.84-85
Poem Title:
The River of Pretension.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
She fans the youthful lover's flame
Page No:
pp.85-89
Poem Title:
The Princess Hope.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Must we eternal martyrdom pursue
Page No:
pp.89-91
Poem Title:
Love's Resentment.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
The houses there retired in gardens are
Page No:
pp.92-93
Poem Title:
The City of Discretion.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
And though I do not speak alas
Page No:
pp.93-94
Poem Title:
The silent Confession.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
A den where tigers make the passage good
Page No:
pp.94-95
Poem Title:
The Den of Cruelty.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Its torrent has no other source
Page No:
pp.96-97
Poem Title:
The River of Despair.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Now my fair tyrant I despise your power
Page No:
p.97
Poem Title:
The Resolve.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Say my fair charmer must I fall
Page No:
pp.98-104
Poem Title:
The Question.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Rejoice my new made happy soul rejoice
Page No:
pp.104-105
Poem Title:
The Transport.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Not attributed
First Line:
A lady lovely with a charming mien
Page No:
pp.105-106
Poem Title:
Confidence.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Oh with what pleasure did I pass away
Page No:
pp.106-109
Poem Title:
The Reflection.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Her mourning languid eyes are rarely shown
Page No:
pp.109-112
Poem Title:
Absence.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Fond Love thy pretty flatteries cease
Page No:
pp.112-114
Poem Title:
To Love.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Rivals tis called a village where
Page No:
pp.114-115
Poem Title:
Rivals.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
A palace that is more uneasy far
Page No:
pp.115-117
Poem Title:
Jealousy.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Oft in my jealous transports I would cry
Page No:
pp.117-119
Poem Title:
The Complaint.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
With rigour arm yourself I cried
Page No:
pp.119-121
Poem Title:
The Penitent.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
In this vast isle a famous city stands
Page No:
pp.121-122
Poem Title:
The City of Love.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Midst this gay court a famous temple stands
Page No:
pp.122-125
Poem Title:
Love's Temple.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Honour's a mighty phantom which around
Page No:
pp.126-128
Poem Title:
Honour.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Weep weep Lysander for the lovely maid
Page No:
pp.128-132
Poem Title:
The Loss.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Tis all eternal spring around
Page No:
pp.133-141
Poem Title:
The Prospect and Bower of Bliss.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Blessed age when every purling stream
Page No:
pp.142-150
Poem Title:
The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation from the French.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Damon I cannot blame your will
Page No:
pp.150-151
Poem Title:
Song. The Invitation.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Love in fantastic triumph sat
Page No:
p.150
Poem Title:
Song. Love Arm'd.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
When Jemmy first began to love
Page No:
pp.151-152
Poem Title:
Scots Song.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Amyntas if your wit in dreams
Page No:
pp.152-154
Poem Title:
On a Copy of Verses made ina Dream, and sent to me in a morning before I was awake.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
What means this knot in mystic order tied
Page No:
pp.154-155
Poem Title:
On a Locket of Hair wove in a True-Lover's Knot, given me by Sir R. O.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
How strongly does my passion flow
Page No:
pp.155-156
Poem Title:
Song. On Her Loving Two Equally.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
A pox upon this needless scorn
Page No:
pp.156-157
Poem Title:
The Counsel. A Song.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
In the blooming time of the year
Page No:
pp.157-160
Poem Title:
Sylvio's Complaint. A Song, To a fine Scotch Tune.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
What mean those amorous curls of jet
Page No:
p.160
Poem Title:
In Imitation of Horace.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems by Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Take back that heart you with such caution give
Page No:
pp.161-163
Poem Title:
To Lysander, on some Verses he writ, and asking more for his Heart than 'twas worth.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
As wretched vain and indiscreet
Page No:
p.163
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
In vain does Hymen with religious vows
Page No:
p.164
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
What should I ask my friend which best would be
Page No:
pp.164-166
Poem Title:
Cato's Answer to Labienus, when he advised him to consult the Oracle of Jupiter Ammon. Being a Paraphrastical Trabslation of Part of the 9th Book of Lucan, beginning at - Quid quaeri, Labiene, jubes, &c.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Alexis since you'll have it so
Page No:
pp.166-167
Poem Title:
To Alexis, on his saying, I lov'd a Man that talked much.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
Tell me thou nimble fire that dost dilate
Page No:
pp.167-169
Poem Title:
Part of an Ode to Desire.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
As the enamoured Thirsis lay
Page No:
p.170
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Aphra Behn.'
Attributed To:
Aphra Behn
First Line:
The solitary bird of night
Page No:
pp.173-176
Poem Title:
Ode to Wisdom.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Miss Eliza Carter.'
Attributed To:
Elizabeth Carter
First Line:
In plaintive sounds that tuned to woe
Page No:
pp.177-178
Poem Title:
To a Gentleman, On his intending to cut down a Grove to enlarge his Prospect.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Miss Eliza Carter.'
Attributed To:
Elizabeth Carter
First Line:
Wife and servant are the same
Page No:
pp.181-182
Poem Title:
To the Ladies.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
Methinks I see the golden age again
Page No:
pp.182-184
Poem Title:
To Eugenia. On her Pastoral.
Attribution:
Collected in section, '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.184-185
Poem Title:
The Resolve.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
Tell me Marissa by what rule
Page No:
p.185
Poem Title:
The Inquiry. A Dialogue between Cleanthe and Marissa.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Lady Chudleigh.'
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
Oh Pollux when thou next revisitst light
Page No:
pp.191-196
Poem Title:
One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead paraphrased.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Lady Chudleigh.'
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
When Daphne first her shepherd saw
Page No:
p.196
Poem Title:
Song.
Attribution:
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
Welcome thou brave defender of our right
Page No:
pp.197-226
Poem Title:
The Ladies Defence: Or, A Dialogue between Sir John Brute, Sir William Loveall, Melissa, and a Parson.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Lady Chudleigh.'
Attributed To:
Mary Chudleigh [nee Lee]
First Line:
Attend ye numerous daring throng who strive
Page No:
pp.229-232
Poem Title:
Calliope's Directions how to deserve and distinguish the Muses Inspiration.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
Soft kisses may be innocent
Page No:
p.232
Poem Title:
The Caution.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
Why do you thus alarm my soul
Page No:
pp.232-233
Poem Title:
The Platonic.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
Thou dear returning lovely swain
Page No:
pp.233-234
Poem Title:
The Needless Deceit.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
Of Albion's splendid court unmoved I hear
Page No:
pp.234-238
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 in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
Ah gaze not on those eyes forbear
Page No:
p.238
Poem Title:
Song. The Vain Advice.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Cockburn.'
Attributed To:
Catharine Cockburn [nee Trotter]
First Line:
The fleeting birds may soon in ocean swim
Page No:
pp.241-243
Poem Title:
To Miss Laetitia Van Lewen (Afterwards Mrs. Pilkington) at a Country Assize.
Attribution:
Collected in section 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
If my Laetitia still persists to love
Page No:
pp.243-244
Poem Title:
To the same on the same Occasion.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
Long has the warrior's and the lover's fire
Page No:
pp.244-246
Poem Title:
To Mrs. Mary Barber, Under the Name of Sapphira: Occasioned by the Encouragement she met with in England to publish her Poems by Subscription.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
Thus twice detected Con thy pride give over
Page No:
pp.246-248
Poem Title:
Verses Occasioned by Mrs. Barber's Son speaking Latin in School to less Advantage than English: Written as from a Schoolfellow.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
Some guardian powers in pity to our land
Page No:
pp.248-249
Poem Title:
To the Hon. Mrs. Percival, On her desisting from the Bermudan Project.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
In various forms have I been shown
Page No:
pp.249-251
Poem Title:
The Speech of Cupid, Upon seeing himself painted By the Honourable Miss Carteret, (Now Countess of Dysert) on a Fan.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
The internal senses painted here we see
Page No:
p.249
Poem Title:
To the Hon. Mrs. Percival, With Hutcheson's Treatise on Beauty and Order.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
You look surprised in this deriding age
Page No:
pp.251-252
Poem Title:
Prologue to Theodosius: Spoken by Athenais at the Theatre in Dublin, when Lord and Lady Carteret were in Ireland.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Grierson.'
Attributed To:
Constantia Grierson
First Line:
How much of paper's spoiled what floods of ink
Page No:
pp.255-259
Poem Title:
An Epistle to Lady Bowyer.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Patience my lord a virtue rare I grant
Page No:
pp.260-271
Poem Title:
Of Patience. An Epistle to The Right Hon. Samuel Lord Masham.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Whence these impetuous movements of the breast
Page No:
pp.271-277
Poem Title:
Of Desire. An Epistle to The Honourable Miss Lovelace.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Shall so much worth in silence pass away
Page No:
pp.277-283
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 in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones'.
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
A squire who long had fed on ale
Page No:
pp.283-284
Poem Title:
To Mrs. Clayton, With a Hare.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Now ponder well Miss Clayton dear
Page No:
pp.284-286
Poem Title:
To Miss Clayton, Occasioned by her breaking an appointment to visit the Author.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
O all ye spotted brutes that guard the fair
Page No:
pp.286-288
Poem Title:
Elegy On a favourite Dog, suppos'd to be poison'd. To Miss Molly Clayton.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
The sun had left the western road
Page No:
pp.289-291
Poem Title:
The Spider.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
When skilful traders first set up
Page No:
pp.291-292
Poem Title:
After the Small-Pox.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
At the brow of a hill a fair shepherdess dwelt
Page No:
pp.292-294
Poem Title:
The Lass of the Hill, Humbly inscribed to Her Grace the Dutchess of Marlborough.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Since kings and queens and dutchesses must die
Page No:
pp.294-296
Poem Title:
Consolatory Rhymes To Mrs. East, On the Death her Canary Bird.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Two nymphs of chaste Diana's train
Page No:
pp.296-301
Poem Title:
Holt Waters. A Tale. Extracted from The Natural History of Berkshire.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Alas my purse how lean and low
Page No:
pp.301-303
Poem Title:
Soliloquy On an Empty Purse.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
To foreign notes while others tune the lyre
Page No:
pp.303-305
Poem Title:
To the Prince of Orange, On his Marriage. Written at the time of the Oxford Verses.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
Charlotte who my controller is chief
Page No:
pp.305-308
Poem Title:
Epistle from Fern-Hill.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Mary Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
In the calm hour when pleasure most prevails
Page No:
pp.308-310
Poem Title:
In Memory of the Right Hon. Nevil Lord Lovelace. To Miss Lovelace.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones
First Line:
The summit reached of earthly joys
Page No:
pp.311-312
Poem Title:
Ode To the Right Honourable Lady Henry Beauclerk, On her Marriage.
Attribution:
Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Jones.'
Attributed To:
Mary Jones