Anthologies

Romantic Women Poets 1770-1838

An Anthology

Edited by Andrew Ashfield

Volume 1. Rev. Ed.

New York: Manchester University Press, 1995, 1997.

INTRODUCTION

ANNA SEWARD (1742-1809)

1. Sonnet: "By Derwent's rapid stream as oft I strayed"

2. Sonnet: An Evening in November

3. Sonnet: Autumn

4. Sonnet: To Colebrooke Dale

5. Sonnet: To the Poppy

6. Sonnet: To France on her Present Exertions

7. Sonnet: "On the damp margin of the sea-beat shore"

8. "O'er this deep Glen, departing Autumn throws"

9. "Once more these eyes, with smiles of pleasure hail"

10. "As conscious Memory, with reverted glance"

11. Colebrook Dale

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (née Aikin) (1743-1825)

12. from Corsica

13. Ode to Spring

14. A Summer Evening's Meditation

15. Autumn, a Fragment

16. On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation, in 1792

17. The Rights of Woman

18. Inscription for an Ice-House

19. Washing-Day

20. To Mr C[olerid]ge

21. from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

22. from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

23. from Eighteen Hundred and Eleven

24. Life

HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)

25. from The Search after Happiness

26. from The Search after Happiness

MARY HAYS (1760-1843)

27. An Invocation to the Nightingale

28. The Consolation

29. Sonnet: "Ah! let not hope fallacious, airy, wild"

CHARLOTTE SMITH (née Turner) (1749-1806)

30. Sonnet: To a Nightingale

31. Sonnet: To the South Downs

32. Sonnet: On the Departure of the Nightingale

33. Sonnet: Composed during a Walk on the Downs

34. Sonnet: "The fairest flowers are gone!--for tempests fell"

35. Sonnet: "Huge vapours brood above the clifted shore"

36. from The Emigrants, Book I

37. from The Emigrants, Book II

38. Studies by the Sea

39. The Swallow

40. Beachy Head

ELIZA KNIPE (later Clarke, later Cobbold) (1767-1824)

41. On the Lake of Windermere

42. Keswick

ANNE HUNTER (née Home) (1742-1821)

43. November, 1784

44. To the Nightingale

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (later Stone?) (1762-1827)

45. Sonnet: To Twilight

46. Sonnet: To Expression

47. An Address to Poetry

48. Sonnet: To Hope

49. To Dr Moore, in Answer to a poetical Epistle . . .

50. Sonnet: To Love

51. Sonnet: To Disappointment

52. Sonnet: To Simplicity

53. Sonnet: To the Strawberry

54. Sonnet: To the Curlew

55. Sonnet: to the Torrid Zone

56. Sonnet: to the Calbassia Tree

57. Sonnet: To the White Bird of the Tropic

58. A Hymn Written among the Alps

MARY HUNT (1764-1834)

59. Written on Visiting the Ruins of Dunkeswell Abbey

ANN YEARSLEY (née Cromartie) (1752-1806)

60. To Mr ***, an Unlettered Poet, on Genius Unimproved

61. Anarchy

62. Peace

63. Dedicated to Louis XIV

MARY O'BRIEN (fl. 1785-90)

64. Ode to Milton

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)

65. from A Winter Day

66. from A Summer Day

67. from Thunder

68. from Wind

69. An Address to the Night: A Fearful Mind

70. London

71. from The Traveller by Night in November

72. Address to a Steamvessel

ANNA MARIA JONES (née Shipley) (1748-1829)

73. Sonnet: To Echo

74. Stanzas: Marie Antoinette's Complaint in Prison

75. Ode: To Fancy

76. Adieu to India

MARY ROBINSON (née Darby) (1758-1800)

77. Ode: To the Nightingale

78. Stanzas Written between Dover and Calais

79. Stanzas Written after Successive Nights of Melancholy Dreams

80. Ode to my Beloved Daughter

81. January, 1795

82. The Progress of Melancholy

83. Sonnet: To Liberty

84. Ode: To the Snow-Drop

85. Stanzas

86. from The Progress of Liberty

87. from The Progress of Liberty

88. London's Summer Morning

89. To the Poet Col[e]ridge

90. Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq.

91. The Haunted Beach

92. Winkfield Plain

ANN RADCLIFFE (née Ward) (1764-1823)

93. To the Visons of Fancy

94. Song of a Spirit

95. Morning, on the Sea Shore

96. Rondeau

97. The Sea-Mew

AMELIA ALDERSON (later Opie) (1769-1853)

98. To Twilight

99. Ode to Borrowdale in Cumberland

100. Ode on the Present Times, 27th January 1795

101. Stanzas Written under Aeolus's Harp

JANE WEST (née Iliffe) (1758-1852)

102. Ode to the Imagination

103. Sonnet: "Her hair dishevelled, and her robe untied"

104. Sonnet to May

ANNA MARIA PORTER (1780-1852)

105. Address to Poesy

106. Sonnet to a Sea-Gull

MARY TIGHE (née Blachford) (1772-1810)

107. Written at Scarborough

108. Sonnet: "For me would Fancy now her chaplet twine"

109. Sonnet: "Ye dear associates of my gayer hours"

110. from Psyche [The Island of Pleasure]

111. from Psyche [Cupid Asleep]

112. from Psyche [The Bower of Loose Delight]

113. from Psyche [The Charm of Poetry]

BARBARA HOOLE (née Wreaks, later Hofland) (1770-1844)

114. Cumberland Rocks

115. Sonnet, Composed on the Banks of Ullswater

116. Sonnet, Composed in a Cell (commonly called the Giant's Cave)

117. Lines, Composed whilst Climbing some Rocks in Derbyshire

JANE TAYLOR (1783-1824)

118. A Town

119. from A Pair

120. from The World in the House

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS (née Browne) (1793-1835)

121. The Voice of Spring

122. The Treasures of the Deep

123. The Hebrew Mother

124. The Homes of England

125. The Better Land

126. The Voice of the Wind

127. Prosperzia Rossi

128. Indian Woman's Death-Song

129. The Spirit's Mysteries

130. The Traveller at the Source of the Nile

131. The Mirror in the Deserted Hall

132. The Last Song of Sappho

133. The Rock of Cader-Idris: A Legend of Wales

134. Despondency and Aspiration

MARIA JANE JEWSBURY (later Fletcher (1800-33)

135. The Glory of the Heights

136. To My Own Heart

137. The Outward-Bound Ship (Oceanides, no. I)

138. The Burden of the Sea (Oceanides, no. III)

139. The Voyager's Regret (Oceanides, no. VI)

140. The Spirit of the Cape (Oceanides, no. VII)

141. The Haven Gained (Oceanides, no. XII)

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (later Maclean) (1802-38)

142. St George's Hospital, Hyde-Park Corner

143. [Ruins of Ideal Presence]

144. [Intimations of Previous Existence]

145. The Factory

146. [Influence of Poetry]

147. Three Extracts from the Diary of a Week

148. Felicia Hemans

149. Night at Sea

MARIA ABDY (née Smith) (c. 1797-1867)

150. The Dream of the Poetess

MARY BROWNE (later Gray) (1812-45)

151. The Poetess

152. Thoughts on the Sea Shore in an Autumn Evening

153. Midnight Musings

154. The Fever of the Mind

155. Imaginary Lands

CATHERINE GRACE GODWIN (née Garnett) (1798-1845)

156. from The Wanderer's Legacy

157. The Voice of the Waterfall

158. A Dreamer

CAROLINE NORTON (née Sheridan, later Stirling-Maxwell) (1808-77)

159. The Heart's Wreck

160. Babel

161. The Child of the Earth

162. The Mother's Heart

EMMA ROBERTS (c. 1794-1840)

163. Night on the Ganges

CAROLINE BOWLES (later Southey) (1786-1854)

164. [Martyrs of Sensibility]

165. [London Sparrows]

SARA COLERIDGE (née Coleridge) (1802-52)

166. "O sleep, my babe, hear not the rippling wave"

167. "I tremble when with look benign"

168. "I was a brook in straitest channel pent"

169. "Blest is the tarn which towering cliffs o'ershade"

EMILY BRONTË (1818-48)

170. "High waving heather, 'neath stormy blasts bending"

171. "O God of heaven! the dream of horror"

172. "Alone I sat; the summer day"

173. "Sleep bring no joy to me"

174. "The night is darkening round me"

175. "O Dream, where art thou now?"

176. "Loud without the wind was roaring"

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (later Nicholls) (1816-55)

177. from Retrospection

178. The Lonely Lady

179. My Dreams

180. "What does she dream of, lingering all alone"

181. Remembrance

ELIZABETH BARRETT (later Browning) (1806-61)

182. The Tempest: A Fragment

183. A Sea-Side Mediation

184. To a Poet's Child

185. The Romaunt of Margaret

186. The Seaside Walk

187. L.E.L.'s Last Question

APPENDIX: ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (née Aikin); To the Lark

NOTES

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

SELECTED THEMATIC INDEX

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