Anthologies

Romantic Women Poets

1788-1848 Volume II

Edited by Andrew Ashfield

Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1998

CONTENTS

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

A Poem on the Bill Lately Pased for Regulating the Slave Trade

HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)

Slavery, a Poem

The Sorrows of Yamba

ANN YEARSLEY (née Cromartie) (1752-1806)

A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade

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

Epistle to William Wilberforce

MARY LEADBEATER (née Shackleton) (1758-1826)

The Triumph of Terror

The Summer-Morning's Desstruction

The Ruined Cottage

MARY ROBINSON (née Derby) (1758-1800)

The Maniac

The Lascar

Poor Marguerite

Edmund's Wedding

The Savage of Aveyron

ANNE BANNERMAN (1765-1829)

Verses on an Illumination for a Naval Victory

Ode I: The Spirit of the Air

Ode II: The Mermaid

The Soldier

The Dark Ladie

FANNY HOLCROFT (1780-1844)

Annabella

The Penitent Mother

Conscience the Worst of Tortures

The Negro

The Condemned Sailor

The Debtor

The Madagascar Mother

JANE ELIZABETH ROSCOE (later Hornblower) (1797-1853)

Sonnet: ‘Though to my living eye be still denied'

The Visionary

Llanberis Pass

Sonnet: ‘Pent in the city's darksome walls I pine'

Sonnet: ‘Amidst the darkness of the ancient time'

Life

Sonnet: ‘Yes! there are sympathies fate cannot part'

Solitary Imprisonment

Verses: ‘Do I not love at midnight to gaze forth'

Verses: ‘I was within a home, where nature smiled'

CAROLINE BOWLES (later Southey) (1786-1854)

There is a tongue in every leaf

On Reading ‘The records of woman'

The Father's Tale

The Grandmother's Tale

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

Bring Flowers

The American Forest-Girl

Corinne at the Capitol

The Grave of a Poetess

Woman on the Field of Battle

Woman and Fame

Arabella Stuart

The Spells of Home

The Beings of the Mind

The Land of Dreams

The Wings of the Dove

The Two Homes

The Dreaming Child

The Dreamer

To the Mountain Winds

The Return to Poetry

Intellectual Powers

Remembrances of Nature

MARIANNE PROWSE (née Jeffrey) (1798-1850)

Nature

Home

On Visiting a Cataract

To *****

Written During a Storm at Night

The Desolate

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON (later Maclean) (1802-1838)

Corinna

The Enchanted Island

Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans

[Fragment] ‘The alter, ‘tis of death! for there are laid'

[Fragment] ‘Oh, what a waste of feeling and of thought'

The Polar Star

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

Felicia Hemans

The Lady Jane Grey in her Study

MARY ANN BROWNE (later Gray) (1812-1845)

A World Without Water

Rocks

The Song of the Elements

A Visions of Power

Fragmentary Verses

The Embroideress at Midnight

MARIA ABDY (née Smith) (1767-1867)

The Enchanted Ground

The Poetess

Lines Written on the Death of Mrs Hemans

The Deserted Wife to her Sister

The Railway Tunnel

The Dressmaker

The Embroidery Frame

CAROLINE NORTON (née Sheridan, later Stirling-Maxwell) (1808-1877)

The Captive Heart

Sonnet: ‘In the cold change which Time hath wrought on love'

A Voice from the Factories

Sonnet: ‘Like an enfranchised bird, who wildly springs'

Sonnet: The Disdained Lover

The Poet's Choice

CAROLINE CLIVE (née Wigly) (1801-1873)

The Grave

Written in Illness

Former Home

EMILY BRONTË (1818-1848)

‘I'm happiest when most away'

‘It's over now; I've known it all'

‘Harp of wild and dream-like strain'

‘I am the only being whose doom'

‘It is not pride, it is not shame'

‘The wind, I hear it sighing'

The Night-Wind

‘And like myself lone, wholly lone'

‘Shall earth no more inspire thee'

To Imagination

Remembrance

The Prisoner. A Fragment

‘No coward soul is mine'

‘Often rebuked, yet always back returning'

ANNE BRONTË (1820-1849)

The North Wind

To Cowper

Lines Composed in a Wood on a Windy Day

The Captive Dove

If This Be All

Dreams

CHARLOTTE BRONTË (later Nicholls) (1816-1855)

On the Death of Emily Jane Brontë

On the Death of Anne Brontë

ELIZABETH BARRETT (later Browning) (1806-1861)

Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon

The Soul's Travelling

Cowper's Grave

The Cry of the Human

The Cry of the Children

Sonnet: The Soul's Expression

Sonnet: The Seraph and the Poet

The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point

Maude's Sprinning

The Poet

Hiram Powers's Greek Slave

MARY BRYAN (née Langdon) (1780-after 1823)

To W[illiam] W[ordsworth] Esq.

Sonnet: The Spinning Wheel

The Visit

On Seeing the Representation of a Victory

The Dream

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