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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 253

Author

Southey, Caroline Bowles, 1786-1854

Title

The birth-day : a poem, in three parts : to which are added, occasional verses / by Caroline Bowles

Imprint

William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh; and Thomas Cadell, London. 1836.

Physical description

ii, 288 p. ; 18 cm

Citation

Not in Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women; multiple copies in Worldcat.

Call number

WPRP 253

Notes

Cloth bookmark.

Epigraph

To the memory of the dead I consecrate these recollections; to the indulgence of the living I commend them. C.B. Buckland, 24th May, 1836.

Contents

The birth-day

Occasional Verses

The Churchyard	175
The Death of the Flowers	178
The Spell of Music	180
To Death	182
When shall we meet again?	184
To the Memory of Isabel Southey	187
"Aura Veni"	190
The Dying Mother to her Infant	193
To the Sweet-scented Cyclamen	199
The Treaty	205
The Last Treaty	208
Once upon a Time	213
Little Leonard's "Good-night"	218
Departure	221
"How Swift is a Glance of the Mind!"	224
The Pauper's Death-bed	227
To My Old Canary	229
To Little Mary	238
The Hedgehog	242
To My Little Cousin, with her first bonnet	247
On the Removal of some Family Portraits	251
Our Old House Clock	257
The Child's Unbelief	272
The Legend of Santarem	276
The River	284
To the Lady-bird	286