JULIANA BERNERS | 1 |
The Opening of her Poem | 2 |
The Season of the Boar | 3 |
QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN | 5 |
Verses | 5 |
ANNE ASKEWE | 7 |
Ballad | 7 |
ANONYMOUS AUTHORESS | 11 |
E.D. in Praise of Mr. Wm. Foular | 11 |
ANNE, COUNTESS OF OXFORD | 13 |
Epitaph | 13 |
QUEEN ELIZABETH | 15 |
Verses written at Woodstock | 15 |
Sonnet | 16 |
Verses from Ashmolean Museum | 19 |
Epitaph on the Princes of Espinoye | 20 |
The 14th Psalm | 21 |
Answer to a Popish Priest | 22 |
Rebus on Mr. Noel, &c. &c. | 23 |
ELIZABETH MELVILL | 24 |
From ane Godlie Dreame | 24 |
LADY ELIZABETH CAREW | 28 |
Chorus in Act III. of Mariam | 28 |
Chorus in Act IV. of Mariam | 30 |
MARY, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE | 32 |
A Dialogue between Thenot and Piers | 32 |
Chorus in the Tragedy of Antony | 37 |
LADY MARY WROTH | 40 |
Song | 40 |
Song | 41 |
ANNE, COUNTESS OF ARUNDEL | 43 |
Verses | 43 |
DIANA PRIMROSE | 45 |
The Fourth Pearl | 45 |
The Eighth Pearl | 47 |
MARY FAGE | 50 |
Anagram | 50 |
Anagram | 51 |
ANNA HUME | 52 |
To the Reader | 52 |
From the Triumph of Death | 52 |
ANNE BRADSTREET | 55 |
From Spring | 55 |
Epitaph for Queen Elizabeth | 58 |
ANONYMOUS AUTHORESS | 59 |
To my Husband | 59 |
ANNE COLLINS | 61 |
Song | 61 |
MARY MORPETH | 64 |
To William Drummond | 64 |
PRINCESS ELIZABETH | 67 |
Verses given to Lord Harrington | 67 |
KATHERINE PHILIPS | 76 |
Against Pleasure | 76 |
To Lady E. Boyle, singing | 78 |
To my Antenor | 79 |
A Country Life | 81 |
FRANCES BOOTHBY | 86 |
Song | 86 |
MARGARET, DUTCHESS OF NEWCASTLE | 88 |
Of the Theme of Love | 89 |
The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies | 89 |
The Funeral of Calamity | 93 |
Mirth and Melancholy | 94 |
Mirth | 94 |
Melancholy | 96 |
ANNE KILLEGREW | 99 |
The Complaint of a Lover | 99 |
Upon the saying that my Verses were made by Another | 101 |
ANNE, MARCHIONESS OF WHARTON | 105 |
Verses on the Snuff of a Candle | 105 |
Song | 106 |
—— TAYLOR | 108 |
Song | 108 |
To Mertill | 109 |
Song | 110 |
APHRA BEHN | 111 |
Song | 112 |
Song | 113 |
In Imitation of Horace | 114 |
Scotch Song | 115 |
Song | 117 |
Song | 118 |
Song | 119 |
Song | 119 |
ALICIA D'ANVERS | 121 |
John's Account of what he has seen at the University | 121 |
MARY PIX | 125 |
Song | 125 |
ANONYMOUS AUTHORESS | 126 |
From the Golden Island | 126 |
LADY CHUDLEIGH | 128 |
To the Ladies | 128 |
The Resolve | 129 |
THE HON. MARY MONK | 131 |
On Providence | 131 |
Verses written on her Death-bed | 132 |
ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA | 134 |
The Atheist and the Acorn | 134 |
Life's Progress | 136 |
A Nocturnal Reverie | 137 |
The Spleen | 140 |
ESTHER VANHOMRIGH | 147 |
Ode to Spring | 147 |
RACHEL, LADY RUSSELL | 149 |
To the Memory of her Husband | 149 |
SUSANNA CENTLIVRE | 150 |
Prologue | 150 |
DE LA RIVIERE MANLY | 152 |
Song | 153 |
To J. M—e | 153 |
—— JOHNSON | 155 |
On Jealousy | 155 |
ELIZABETH THOMAS | 156 |
Predestination | 156 |
CONSTANTIA GRIERSON | 158 |
To Miss Lætitia Van Lewen | 158 |
MARY BARBER | 161 |
On sending my Son as a Present to Dr. Swift | 161 |
ELIZABETH ROWE | 163 |
Despair | 163 |
A Laplander's Song | 165 |
JANE BRERETON | 167 |
On Mr. Nash's Picture | 167 |
MARY CHANDLER | 169 |
Temperance | 169 |
MARY LEAPOR | 171 |
The Temple of Love | 171 |
Sylvanus and Phillis | 175 |
CATHERINE COCKBURN | 179 |
The Vain Advice | 179 |
The Caution | 179 |
LETITIA PILKINGTON | 181 |
Ode | 181 |
Song | 182 |
ELIZABETH TOLLET | 183 |
Winter Song | 183 |
On a Death's Head | 184 |
ELIZA HAYWOOD | 186 |
Ximene to Palemon | 186 |
HENRIETTA, LADY LUXBOROUGH | 188 |
The Bulfinch in Town | 188 |
—— PENNINGTON | 190 |
Ode to Morning | 190 |
MARY MASTERS | 193 |
To Lucinda | 193 |
—— MADAN | 195 |
Verses written in her Brother's Coke upon Littleton | 195 |
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU | 196 |
The Lover | 196 |
To the Moon | 199 |
Answer to a Lady | 199 |
FRANCES SHERIDAN | 201 |
Ode to Patience | 201 |
ANNA, COUNTESS TEMPLE | 204 |
Lines to Lady Charles Spencer | 204 |
MARY JONES | 206 |
An Epistle to Lady Bowyer | 206 |
FRANCES BROOKE | 212 |
Ode to Health | 212 |
—— GRENVILLE | 214 |
Prayer to Indifference | 214 |
HENRIETTA, LADY ONEIL | 218 |
Ode to the Poppy | 218 |
Verses written on seeing her Two Sons at Play | 220 |
MARY ROBINSON | 222 |
Sonnet | 223 |
Lines to him who will understand them | 223 |
The Snow-drop | 227 |
My Native Home | 229 |
HESTHER CHAPONE | 231 |
Ode to Solitude | 231 |
GEORGIANA, DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE | 234 |
The Passage of the Mountains of St. Gothard | 234 |
ELIZABETH CARTER | 243 |
Ode to Wisdom | 243 |
To a Gentleman on his intending to cut down a Grove | 247 |
ANN YEARSLEY | 250 |
From Clifton Hill | 250 |
From a Poem on Mrs. Montagu | 253 |
CHARLOTTE SMITH | 254 |
Sonnet | 255 |
Sonnet | 255 |
Sonnet | 256 |
Sonnet | 257 |
Sonnet | 258 |
Sonnet | 258 |
Sonnet | 259 |
From Beachy Head | 260 |
The Swallow | 264 |
The Calendar of Flora | 267 |
Song | 270 |
Saint Monica | 273 |
ELIZABETH TREFUSIS | 278 |
Felix to Stella | 278 |
The Boy and the Butterfly | 279 |
From a Valentine | 280 |
Eudora's Lamentation | 281 |
HANNAH COWLEY | 283 |
Marriage | 283 |
ANNA SEWARD | 285 |
The Anniversary | 286 |
Time Past | 292 |
From an Invocation to the Genius of Slumber | 294 |
Song | 295 |
From an Elegy on Captain Cook | 296 |
Louisa's First Meeting with Eugenio | 300 |
Sonnet | 302 |
Sonnet | 303 |
Sonnet | 303 |
The Grave of Youth | 304 |
M. TIGHE | 306 |
From Psyche (Canto I.) | 306 |
From Psyche (Canto II.) | 312 |
The Lily | 317 |
MARY BRUNTON | 320 |
Stanzas | 320 |
ANNE HUNTER | 322 |
Song | 322 |
A Vow to Fortune | 323 |
Song | 325 |
The Death Song | 325 |
To my Daughter | 327 |
HESTER LYNCH PIOZZI | 329 |
The Three Warnings | 329 |
ANN RADCLIFFE | 334 |
To the Winds | 334 |
The Glow-worm | 335 |
Song of a Spirit | 340 |
ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD | 343 |
A Summer Evening's Meditation | 343 |
Verses written in an Alcove | 348 |
Ode to Spring | 351 |
To a Lady with some Painted Flowers | 353 |
Song | 354 |
Song | 356 |
ELEANOR ANNE FRANKLIN | 358 |
From the Veils | 358 |
From Cœur de Lion | 359 |
LADY ANNE BARNARD | 365 |
Auld Robin Gray | 367 |
JANE ELLIOT | 371 |
The Flowers of the Forest | 371 |
The Flowers of the Forest. Part Second, (by Mrs. Cockburn) | 373 |
HANNAH MORE | 375 |
From Sensibility | 375 |
From Florio | 380 |
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS | 391 |
Sonnet to Hope | 391 |
Song | 392 |
JOANNA BAILLIE | 394 |
The Kitten | 394 |
Song | 399 |
Song | 400 |
Song | 401 |
Song | 403 |
Song | 404 |
Song | 404 |
—— SCOTT | 407 |
The Owl | 407 |
AMELIA OPIE | 409 |
The Orphan Boy's Tale | 409 |
Song | 411 |
ANNE GRANT | 412 |
From the Highlanders | 412 |
From the same | 416 |
—— HOLFORD | 418 |
From Wallace, of the Fight of Falkirk | 418 |
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD | 425 |
Infant Love | 425 |
ANONYMOUS AUTHORESS | 426 |
Address to a Child, during a Boisterous Winter Evening | 426 |
FELICIA HEMANS | 429 |
The Treasures of the Deep | 429 |
The Voice of Spring | 431 |
The First of March | 433 |
L.E. LANDON | 436 |
Descriptive Sketch | 436 |
The Farewell | 438 |
Stanzas | 439 |
APPENDIX | |
THE HON. GERTRUDE THIMELBY | 443 |
To her Husband | 443 |
On the Death of her only Child | 444 |
To Sir William and my Lady Persall, &c. | 445 |
