Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 409

 

Editor

Hall, Clara

Title

Rhymes & Reason, or, Mirth & Morality for the Young: a Selection of Poetic Pieces, Chiefly Humourous / by Clara Hall, Editress of "Affection's offering," "Parlour Stories, " &c. &c.

Imprint

London: Edward Lacey, 76, St. Paul's Church Yard, [1832 or 1833] (London : Sears and Trapp, Printers, 11, Budge Row).

Call number

WPRP 409

Physical Description

iv, 72 p., [4] leaves of col. plates: col. ill.; 15 cm.

Notes

Cover title: Rhymes & reasons.  Publication dates based on printer's address, established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 109, 172.  Engraved plates. Woodcut title vignette.  Illustrations by Theodore Lane. Frontispiece engraved by Fenner Sears & Co. One plate signed: G. Davies.

Epigraph

none

Contents

DISTURBED BY THE NIGHT-MARE

1

LINES ON A CANARY BIRD

4

EVENING HYMN OF THE TYROLESE PEASANTS

5

SONG

6

CONSOLATION TO PARENTS, &C. BY MRS. WASHBOURN

7

LINES. BY ROBERY BLOMFIELD

8

THE CAPTIVE SQUIRREL'S PETITION

9

SONNET

10

SONG

17

THE MARKEY WOMAN'S ADVENTURE

18

GUY FAWKES. BY BERNARD BARTON

25

MORNING LESSON

27

FRIENDSHIP. BY JANE BOURNE

29

SONNET TO A CHILD

30

THE DISCONTENTED YOUTH AND THE GENIUS

31

SUNDAY MORNING DIALOGUE, &C.

33

THE MAGIC LANTHORN. BY MRS. ABDY

36

WHICH LOVE YOU THE DEAREST?

37

THE FAIRY DELL

40

AN ALLEGORY

42

"PAPA!" A MAIDEN SPEECH. BY MR. GILL TIMMS

44

A FATHER'S EXPOSTULATION, &C.

48

THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST

50

NOTE FROM A TOWN DOG TO A COUNRTY ONE

53

THE MONKEY AND THE TOILET

55

A FAVOURITE CAT'S EPISTLE TO THREE YOUNG FRIENDS ABROAD. BY MISS ANNA MARIA PORTER

58

THE MONKEY AND THE NUTS

62

THE GHOST; A TRUE STORY. BY DR. BOWRING

65

THE SPIDER

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