Poems by the most eminent ladies of Great-Britain and Ireland [T144911 vol. II]
- DMI number:
- 838
- Publication Date:
- 1773
- Volume Number:
- 2 of 2
- ESTC number:
- T144911
- EEBO/ECCO link:
- CW111486370
- Shelfmark:
- BL 11602.bb.5
- 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. II. | 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
- Format:
- Duodecimo
- Bibliographic details:
- HALF-TITLESS: [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. ANNE KILLIGREW. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. LEAPOR. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | ORIGINAL | POEMS | BY | Mrs. MADAN. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. MARY MASTERS. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | By the Right Honourable | Lady Mary Wortley Montague. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | The Hon. Mrs. MONK. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | The Dutchess of [i]Newcastle[/i]. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. KATHERINE PHILIPS. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. LETITIA PILKINGTON. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | Mrs. ELIZABETH ROWE. | [ornamental rule] [ornamental rule] | POEMS | BY | ANNE, Countess of [i]Winchelsea[/i]. | [ornamental rule]
- Comments:
- QUERY: do we need a miscellany genre 'collection of/by women writers'? T144911 is in two volumes; each has its own entry in this database.
- Other matter:
- Prefatory material: Contents (pp.iii-viii).
- References:
- Chantel Lavoie, "Poems by Eminent Ladies: a study of an eighteenth-century anthology", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Toronto, 1999
- 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:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T42592] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1755
- ESTC No:
- T42592
- Volume:
- 2 of 2
- Relationship:
- Reissue
- Comments:
- Title:
- Poems by eminent ladies [vol 2] [T60050] [ecco]
- Publication Date:
- 1757
- ESTC No:
- T60050
- 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:
- Volume from the same edition
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Thomas Becket
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Publisher:
- Thomas Evans
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- First Line:
- Seest thou yonder craggy rock
- Page No:
- pp.3-5
- Poem Title:
- The Complaint of a Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Anne Killigrew.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Killigrew
- First Line:
- When first Alexis did in verse delight
- Page No:
- pp.5-6
- Poem Title:
- Love, The Soul of Poetry.
- 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:
- p.6
- Poem Title:
- St. John Baptist, painted by herself in the Wilderness, with 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:
- Behold dear mother who was late our fear
- Page No:
- p.7
- 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.7-9
- 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.9-14
- 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.14
- 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.14
- 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.17-22
- Poem Title:
- Dorinda at her Glass.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Imprimis my departed shade I trust
- Page No:
- pp.22-23
- Poem Title:
- Mira's Will.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- My guardian bear me on thy downy wing
- Page No:
- pp.23-24
- Poem Title:
- A Summer's Wish.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Twas when the fields had shed their golden grain
- Page No:
- pp.24-27
- Poem Title:
- Colinetta.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Hail Phillis brighter than a morning sky
- Page No:
- pp.27-30
- Poem Title:
- The Month of August. Sylvanus, a Courtier. Phillis, a Country Mind.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In vain dear madam yes in vain you strive
- Page No:
- pp.30-32
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to a Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- May Artemisia hear my strain
- Page No:
- pp.33-37
- Poem Title:
- The Proclamation of Apollo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Lucia was fair and bright as rising day
- Page No:
- pp.37-39
- Poem Title:
- The Fall of Lucia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- What means the reeling earth O why
- Page No:
- pp.39-40
- Poem Title:
- The Crucifixion and Resurrection, An Ode.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Nothing dear madam nothing is more true
- Page No:
- pp.40-44
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Happiness.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To you who never the willing verse refuse
- Page No:
- pp.44-47
- Poem Title:
- An Essay on Hope.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Almighty wisdom at whose nod
- Page No:
- pp.48-50
- Poem Title:
- A Prayer for the Year 1745.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To Artemisia tis to her we sing
- Page No:
- pp.50-54
- Poem Title:
- Essay on Friendship.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Strephon the sprightly and the gay
- Page No:
- pp.54-60
- Poem Title:
- The Mistaken Lover.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Some herbs there are whose deadly juices fill
- Page No:
- pp.60-65
- Poem Title:
- The Way of the World.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Madam | I hope you'll think it's true
- Page No:
- pp.65-67
- Poem Title:
- Strephon to Celia. A modern Love-Letter.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- To you dear madam I complain
- Page No:
- pp.67-71
- Poem Title:
- The Inspired Quill. Occasioned by a Present of Crow-Pens.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Ah thou whom nature and thy stars designed
- Page No:
- pp.72-73
- Poem Title:
- On Mr. Pope's Universal Prayer.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When merit rises like the prince of day
- Page No:
- pp.74-80
- Poem Title:
- The Libyan Hunter. A Fable. Inscribed to the Memory of a late admired Author.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When lonely night composed the drowsy mind
- Page No:
- pp.80-83
- Poem Title:
- The Temple of Love, A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Since you Myrtillo will devote your time
- Page No:
- pp.83-85
- Poem Title:
- Advice to Myrtillo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- If you dear Celia cannot bear
- Page No:
- pp.85-87
- Poem Title:
- The Sacrifice. An Epistle to Celia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- O Goddess of eternal smiles
- Page No:
- pp.87-89
- Poem Title:
- The Power of Beauty.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Let not that day in circling moments run
- Page No:
- pp.89-92
- Poem Title:
- Job's Curse, and his Appeal. Taken out of Job, Chap. i, and xxxi.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- What pictures now shall wanton fancy bring
- Page No:
- pp.93-94
- Poem Title:
- Winter.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- As some grave matron bred on rural downs
- Page No:
- pp.94-96
- Poem Title:
- To a Gentleman with a Manuscript Play.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- As Silvia in her garden strayed
- Page No:
- pp.96-98
- Poem Title:
- Silvia and the Bee.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Twas when the sun had his swift progress made
- Page No:
- pp.98-102
- Poem Title:
- The Cruel Parent. A Dream.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In days of yore ere Britons grew too wise
- Page No:
- pp.103-122
- Poem Title:
- Mopsus: Or, The Castle-Builder.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When youth and charms have taken their wanton flight
- Page No:
- pp.122-123
- Poem Title:
- Advice to Sophronia.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Within the bounds of yonder fruitful plain
- Page No:
- pp.123-126
- Poem Title:
- Corydon. Phillario. Or, Mira's Picture. A Pastoral.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- When friends or fortune frown on Mira's lay
- Page No:
- pp.126-132
- Poem Title:
- Crumble-Hall.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- Welcome dear wanderer once more
- Page No:
- pp.133-134
- Poem Title:
- Upon Her Play Being returned to her, Stain'd with Claret.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Leapor.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Leapor
- First Line:
- In my dark cell low prostrate on the ground
- Page No:
- pp.137-143
- Poem Title:
- Abelard to Eloisa.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Madan.'
- Attributed To:
- Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
- First Line:
- O thou who labourst in this rugged mine
- Page No:
- pp.143-144
- Poem Title:
- Verses Written in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Mrs. Madan.'
- Attributed To:
- Judith Madan [nee Cowper]
- First Line:
- Long hath it been the critic's poor delight
- Page No:
- pp.147-148
- 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.149-151
- 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.151-152
- Poem Title:
- To Lucinda.
- 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.152-156
- 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.159-161
- 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.162-165
- 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.165-168
- 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.169-172
- 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.172-176
- 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 Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- At length by so much importunity pressed
- Page No:
- pp.176-178
- Poem Title:
- The Lover. A Ballad. To Mrs. C----.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst pretty fellows think a woman's fame
- Page No:
- pp.178-179
- Poem Title:
- The Gentleman's Answer.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Whilst thirst of praise and vain desire of fame
- Page No:
- p.178
- Poem Title:
- The Lady's Resolve. Written extempore on a Window.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- How happy you who varied joys pursue
- Page No:
- pp.179-182
- Poem Title:
- An Epistle to Lord B----t.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- What could luxurious woman wish for more
- Page No:
- pp.182-183
- 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 Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- Why will Delia thus retire
- Page No:
- pp.183-184
- Poem Title:
- Receipt for the Vapours. Written to Lady J----n.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.'
- Attributed To:
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nee Pierrepont]
- First Line:
- As a kind mother with indulgent eye
- Page No:
- pp.187-188
- 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.188
- 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:
- pp.188-189
- 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.189
- Poem Title:
- Sonetto. From Monsignor Della Casa.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems By The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- See how on yonder bush
- Page No:
- pp.190-191
- 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:
- Soft sleep thou son of silence and of night
- Page No:
- p.190
- 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.191-192
- Poem Title:
- A Tale.
- 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.192
- 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:
- p.192
- 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.193
- Poem Title:
- An Epitaph on a Gallant Lady.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Not attributed
- First Line:
- Upon a time as poets tell
- Page No:
- pp.193-194
- Poem Title:
- Orpheus and Eurydice. From the Spanish of Quevedo.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- The budding rose
- Page No:
- pp.194-195
- Poem Title:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by The Honourable Mrs. Monk.'
- Attributed To:
- Mary Monck
- First Line:
- Chloe her gossips entertains
- Page No:
- p.195
- Poem Title:
- Epigram. To Cloe.
- 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:
- pp.195-196
- 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.199-203
- 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.203-205
- Poem Title:
- Dialogue Betwixt 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:
- pp.205-206
- 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:
- pp.206-207
- 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:
- pp.207-208
- 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.208-210
- 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.210-212
- Poem Title:
- The Pastime Of The Queen of Fairies. When she comes upon the Earth out 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.215-217
- 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.218-219
- 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.219-220
- 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.220-222
- Poem Title:
- The Enquiry.
- Attribution:
- Attributed To:
- Katherine Philips
- First Line:
- How sacred and how innocent
- Page No:
- pp.222-226
- 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:
- pp.226-227
- Poem Title:
- To 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.227-229
- 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.229-230
- 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.230
- 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.230-231
- 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.232
- Poem Title:
- Tendres Desirs, 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.235-236
- 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.236-237
- 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:
- pp.238-239
- 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.239-246
- 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.247
- Poem Title:
- Carte Blanche.
- 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:
- pp.247-248
- Poem Title:
- Sent with a Quill to Dr. Swift, Upon hearing he had a Book and Stand-Dish.
- 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:
- pp.248-249
- 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:
- In what recesses of the brain
- Page No:
- pp.249-250
- Poem Title:
- Memory.
- 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:
- pp.251-252
- 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:
- Is there a man whose fixed and steady soul
- Page No:
- p.251
- 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:
- The queen of the fairies this summons does send
- Page No:
- p.252
- 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:
- pp.253-254
- Poem Title:
- The Seventh Ode Of The Third Book of Horace paraphrased. 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:
- pp.254-255
- 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.255-257
- 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.257-258
- 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.258
- 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:
- pp.258-259
- 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.260-262
- 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.262-264
- 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.264-265
- 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.265-267
- 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.267-268
- Poem Title:
- Epilogue To Virtue Triumphant.
- 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.268
- 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.271-272
- Poem Title:
- In Praise of Memory. Inscribed to the Honourable The Lady Worsely.
- 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.272-273
- Poem Title:
- Hymn To 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:
- pp.273-274
- 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.274-277
- 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.277-278
- 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.279-280
- Poem Title:
- Revelation. Chap. xvi.
- 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:
- pp.280-281
- 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:
- In what soft language shall my thoughts get free
- Page No:
- pp.281-284
- 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:
- A brazen pot by scouring vexed
- Page No:
- pp.287-289
- Poem Title:
- The Brass Pot and Stone Jugg. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, '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.289-290
- Poem Title:
- There's No To-Morrow. A Fable. Imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, '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.290-295
- Poem Title:
- The Spleen. A Pindarick Poem.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Methinks the world is oddly made
- Page No:
- pp.296-297
- Poem Title:
- The Atheist and the Acorn.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, '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.297-300
- Poem Title:
- The Young Rat and his Dam, The Cock and the Cat.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- No sooner Flavio was you gone
- Page No:
- pp.300-304
- 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 in section, '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.304-306
- Poem Title:
- The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Reputation love and death
- Page No:
- pp.307-308
- Poem Title:
- Love, Death, and Reputation.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Fortune well pictured on a rolling globe
- Page No:
- pp.308-311
- Poem Title:
- The Decision of Fortune. A Fable.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, '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.311-312
- Poem Title:
- The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat, Carrying to a Fair.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Cupid ere deprived of sight
- Page No:
- pp.312-313
- Poem Title:
- Cupid and Folly. Imitated from the French.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, 'Poems by Anne, Countess of Winchelsea.'
- Attributed To:
- Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill]
- First Line:
- Disarmed with so genteel an air
- Page No:
- pp.314-316
- Poem Title:
- Answer To the foregoing Verses.
- Attribution:
- Collected in section, '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.314
- Poem Title:
- To Lady Winchelsea, Occasioned by some Verses in the Rape of the Lock.
- Attribution:
- By Mr. Pope.
- Attributed To:
- Alexander Pope
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