Introduction. Editorial Principles. Schedule of Manuscripts. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations. Anna Seward (1742-1809): Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishops Palace at Lichfield which commands a view of Stowe Valley. April 1771. From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796): To Time Past Written Dec. 1772. From Gentleman's Magazine 56 (1786) 791: Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet. From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796): Eyam (composed August 1788). From Gentleman's Magazine 59 (1789) 743: Sonnet to France on her present Exertions. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743-1825): Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (composed by 1 December 1811; published February 1812). Hannah More (1745-1833): From Sacred Dramas: Chiefly Intended for Young Persons: The Subjects Taken From the Bible. To Which is Added, Sensibility, a Poem (1782) Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen. From Florio: a Tale, and the Bas Bleu; or, Conversation (1786): The Bas-Bleu; or, Conversation. Addressed to Mrs Vesey. Slavery: a Poem (1788). Cheap Repository: The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796). Susanna Blamire (1747-94): A North Country Village (extract; edited from manuscript). Joe and Ned Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749-1806): Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786): To William Hayley, Esq. Preface to the First Editions. Preface to the Third Edition Sonnet I. Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring. Sonnet III. To a Nightingale. Sonnet IV. To the Moon. Sonnet V. To the South Downs. Sonnet VI. To Hope. Sonnett VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet VIII. To Spring. Sonnet IX. Sonnet X. To Mrs G. Sonnet XI. To Sleep. Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784. Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch. Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch. Sonnet XV. From Patriarch. Sonnet XVI. From Patriarch. Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio. Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont. Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him. Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A-------. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage. Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther. Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude. Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star. Sonnet XXIV. By the Same. Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death. Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXVII. Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship. Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C--------. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Run, October 1785. Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun. Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend. Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude. Sonnet XXXVI. The Emigrants, a Poem, in Two Books (1793): To William Cowper, Esq. Book 1. Book II. From Beachy Head; with Other Poems (1807): Beachy Head. Mary Scott (1751-93): From The Female Advocate; a Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr Duncombe's Feminiad (1774): To a Lady (extract). [ On Elizabeth Montagu ]. [ On Anna Laetitia Aikin ]. Phillis Wheatley (Mrs John Peters) (c. 1753-84): From Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773): Preface. On Being Brought from Africa to America. On Imagination. Anne Grant (nee MacVicar) (1755-1838): From The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1810): [ The Highland Poor; from Part II]. The Aged Bard's Wish (Translation of a Gaelic Poem Composed in the Isle of Skye). From Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811): Metrical Translation of the Song of Macgregor na Ruara. Anne Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756-1806): From Poems, on Several Occasions (1785): On Mrs Montagu. From Poems on Various Subjects (1787): Addressed to Sensibility. A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788). Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI (1793). From The Rural Lyre (1796): Extempore on Hearing a Gentleman play a hymn on his Flute, Thursday 31 July, Eleven at Night, 1795, near the Author's Window at Bristol Wells. Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806): The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard, a Poem (1802). Mary Robinson (nee Darby) (1758-1800): From The Wild Wreath ed. Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1804): A London Summer Morning (composed 1794). Sappho and Phaon. In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets, with Thoughts on Poetical Subjects, and Anecdotes of the Grecian Poetess (1976): Preface. To the Reader. I. Sonnet introductory. II. The Temple of Chastity. III. The Bower of Pleasure. IV. Sappho discovers her passion. V. Contemns its power. VI. Describes the characteristics of love. VII. Her passion increases. IX. Laments the volatility of Phaon. X. Describes Phaon. XI. Rejects the influence of reason. XII. Previous to her interview with Phaon. XIII. She endeavours to fascinate him. XIV. To the Aeolian harp. XV. Phaon awakes. XVI. Sappho rejects hope. XVII. The tyranny of love. XVIII. To Phaon. XIX. Suspects his constancy. XX. To Phaon. XXI. Laments her early misfortunes. XXII. Phaon forsakes her. XXIII. Sappho's conjectures. XXIV. Her address to the moon. XXV. To Phaon. XXVI. Contemns philosophy. XXVII. Sappho's address to the stars. XXVIII. Describes the fascinations of love. XXIX. Determines to follow Phaon. XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos. XXXI. Describes her bark. XXXII. Dreams of a rival. XXXIII. Reaches Sicily. XXXIX. Sappho's prayer to Venus. XXXV. Reproaches Phaon. XXXVI. Her confirmed despair. XXXVII. Foresees her death. XXXVIII. To a sigh. XXXIX. To the Muses. XL. Visions appear to her in a dream. XLI. Resolves to take the leap of Leucata. XLII. Her last appeal to Phaon. XLIII. Her reflections on the Leucadian rock before she perishes. XLIV. Sonnet conclusive. From Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature (1797): Lines addressed by a young lady of fashion to a small green fly, which had pitched on the left ear of Lady Amaranth's little white barbet, Fidelio, on a summer evening, after a shower, near sunset. A thousand torments wait on love. From The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Robinson (1806): The Progress of Liberty, conclusion to Book I (composed 1798). From Lyrical Tales (1800): The Haunted Beach. The Negro Girl. From The Wild Wreath ed. Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1804): The Poet's Garret (composed 1800). From The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Robinson (1806): Ode inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq. Born 14 September 1800 at Keswick in Cumberland. The Savage of Averyron (composed October 1800). Joanna Baillie (1762-1851): From Fugitive Verses (1840): A Scotch Song. Song ('Poverty parts good company', for an old Scotch air). Song. From The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie (1851): Tam o' the Lin. Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827): From Poems (1786): Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower. A Poem of the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade (1788). From Julia, a Novel (1790): The Bastille, A Vision. A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem. (1791). From Paul and Virginia (1796): Sonnet to the Strawberry. Anne Radcliffe (nee Ward) (1764-1823): From The Romance of the Forest (1791): From The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): The Butterfly to his Love. To the Winds. From Gaston de Blondeville. . . With Some Poetical Pieces (1826): A Sea-View. Scene on the Northern Shore of Sicily. The Snow-Fiend. Ann Batten Cristal (born c. 1769): Poetical Sketches, in Irregular Verse (1795): Preface. Before Twilight. Eyzion. Morning, Rosamonde. Noon. Lysander. Evening. Gertrude. Night. Song ('Wandering in the still of eve'). Holbain. Song on Leaving the Country early in the Spring. Verses Written in the Spring. Written in Devonshire, near the Dart. Song (tune: The Heavy Hours ). Elegy on a Young Lady. The Triumph of Superstition. Raphael and Ianthe. Song ('Tossed midst life's terrific storms'). A Fragment: The Blind Man. Thelmon and Carmel: An Irregular Poem. Part the First. Part the Second. Part the Third. Part the Fourth. Part the Fifth. Part the Sixth. Part the Seventh. Song ('Come, let us dance and sing'). Song ('The eve descends with radiant streaks'). To a Lady on the Rise of Morn. Song ('Through springtime walks with flowers perfumed'). Song ('Both gloomy and dark was the shadowy night'). Elegy. Written when the Mind was Oppressed. The Enthusiast. Arla. A Song of Arla, Written during her Enthusiasm. An Ode. Ode on Truth: Addressed to George Dyer. Amelia Opie (nee Alderson) (1769-1853): From The Warriors Return, and Other Poems (1808): Ode to Borrowdale in Cumberland (written in 1794). Lines in written in 1799. From Poems (1802): The Negro Boy's Tale. Charlotte Byrne (nee King) (? 1771/2-1825): From Hours of Solitude (1805): The Unfaithful Lover. The poor Negro Sadi. The Female Philosopher. We Can Love But Once. From The Morning Post No. 11,563 (10 September 1805): Wine, I say! I'll Drink to Madness!Mary Tighe (nee Blanchford) (1772-1810): Psyche; or, the Legend of Love (1805): Preface. Sonnet Addressed to my Mother. Proem. Canto I. Canto II. Canto III. Canto IV. Canto V. Canto VI. From Psyche, with Other Poems (3rd edition, 1811): On Receiving a branch of Mezereon which flowered at Woodstock, December 1809. Isabella Lickbarrow: From Poetical Effusions (1814): On Sensibility: A Fragment. On Esthwaite Water. From The Westmorland Advertiser; or Kendal Chronicle, Vol. 4, No. 161: On the Slave-Trade. From The Westmorland Advertiser ; or Kendal Chronicle, Vol. 5, No. 206: Patterdale. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1783-1859): From The Lay of an Irish Harp; or Metrical Framents (1807): Fragment X. The Boudoir. Fragment XIX. L'Amant Mutin. Fragment XXXV. The Irish
