Anthologies

The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld

Edited by William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft

Athens: U of Georgia P, 1994

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Naming Practice in This Edition

Introduction

Anna Letitia Barbauld: A Chronology

THE POEMS

1. On Mrs. P[riestley]'s Leaving Warrington

2. An Address to the Deity

3. To Mrs. P[riestley], with some Drawings of Birds and Insects

4. The Invitation

5. [Eclogue on Elizabeth Belsham]

6. On the Birth of a Friend's eldest Son

7. To Dr. Aikin on his Complaining that she neglected him, October 20th 1768

8. To Miss R[igby], on her Attendance upon her Mother at Buxton

9. Corsica

10. The Times

11. Verses written in the Leaves of an ivory Pocket-Book, presented to Master T[urner]

12. A Fragment of an Epic Poem, occasioned by the Loss of a Game of Chess to Dr. Priestley, in consequence of an unseasonable Drowsiness

13. Verses written on the Back of an old Visitation Copy of the Arms of Dr. Priestley's Family, with Proposals for a new Escutcheon

14. [A Character of Sarah Hallowell Vaughan]

15. On the Deserted Village

16. Bouts Rimes in Praise of old Maids

17. On the Death of Mrs. Jennings

18. On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771

19. The Mouse's Petition

20. [A Character of Joseph Priestley]

21. An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study

Songs

22. Song I

23. Song II

24. Song III

25. Song IV

26. Song V

27. Song VI

28. The Origin of Song-Writing

29. Prologue to "The Man of Pleasure" by John Aikin

30. Prologue to the Play of Henry the Eighth, Spoken by a Warrington Student in his morning Gown

31. Epithalamium

32. To Wisdom

Hymns I-V

33. Hymn I

34. Hymn II

35. Hymn III

36. Hymn IV

37. Hymn V

38. The Groans of the Tankard

39. Verses written in an Alcove

Characters

40. [Susanna Barbauld Marissal]

41. [Martha Jennings]

42. [Sarah Taylor Rigby]

43. [Sarah Rigby]

44. [Elizabeth Rigby]

45. [Mr. and Mrs. Edwards]

46. [Mary Holland Enfield]

47. [William Enfield]

48. [Mrs. Fenton]

49. [John Aikin]

50. A Character ("Be this Philander's praise")

51. On a Lady's Writing

52. Hymn to Content

53. Delia. An Elegy

54. Ovid to his Wife: Imitated from different Parts of his Tristia

55. To a Lady, with some painted Flowers

56. Ode to Spring

57. Verses on Mrs. Rowe

58. A Summer Evening's Meditation

59. To a Dog

60. The Epiphany

61. [A Character of John Mort]

62. [Lines to Robert Alderson upon his Departure from Warrington Academy]

63. To Mr. Barbauld, with a Map of the Land of Matrimony

64. [Extempore on being shown the Shoe Buckles worn by David Garrick in his last Performance]

65. Hymn VI

66. To Mr. Barbauld, November 14, 1778

67. Petition of a Schoolboy to his Father

68. Love and Time

69. To Miss F. B. on her asking for Mrs. B[arbauld]'s "Love and Time"

70. To Mrs. Marissal, 1779

71. To-morrow

72. Lines placed over a Chimney-Piece

73. A Portrait

74. Lines to be spoken by Thomas Denman, on the Christmas before his Birthday, when he was four Years old

75. Animals, and their Countries

76. [Lines on the Death of Philip Meadows]

77. Logogriph

78. Written on a Marble

79. A School Eclogue

80. In Answer to a Question from the Greek Grammar: "What do the Futures speak of?"

81. Autumn: A Fragment

82. To Miss D[ixon]

83. To the Baron de Stonne, who had wished at the next Transit of Mercury to find himself again between Mrs. La Borde and Mrs. B[arbauld]

84. To the Baron de Stonne, with Aikin's Essays on Song-Writing

85. Epistle to Dr. Enfield, on his Revisiting Warrington in 1789

86. To the Miss Websters, with Dr. Aikin's "Wish," which they expressed a Desire to have a Copy of

87. Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for abolishing the Slave Trade

88. The Apology of the Bishops, in Answer to "Bonner's Ghost"

89. [Lines to Samuel Rogers in Wales on the Eve of Bastille Day 1791]

90. The Rights of Woman

91. Hymn VII

92. Hymn VIII

93. To a Great Nation

94. To Dr. Priestley, Dec. 29, 1792

95. Inscription for an Ice-House

96. Hymn: "Ye are the salt of the earth"

97. Lines to Mr. W[ynch] on his forty-fifth Birthday

98. To the Poor

99. An Autumnal Thought, 1795

100. To a little invisible Being who is expected soon to become visible

101. To Mr. S. T. Coleridge

102. Washing-Day

103. Epitaph on [Susannah Barbauld Marissal]

Verses inscribed on a Pair of Screens

104. To Dr. A[ikin]

105. To Mrs. A[ikin]

106. Peace and Shepherd

107. On the Death of Mrs. Martineau

108. On a Portrait

109. Hymn [IX]

110. Hymn [X]

111. Hymn [XI]

112. Song for the London Volunteers

113. West End Fair

114. The Pilgrim

115. On being asked if One was a Number, in Reply to Mr. Houghton

116. Dirge

117. Dejection

118. The Unknown God

119. Eternity

120. Enigma. To the Ladies

121. [Reading Lesson]

122. On the King's Illness

123. [Fragment]: "Still dark with frowns"

124. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem

125. Ode to Remorse

126. Life

127. [Mock Epitaph on Mr. and Mrs. Estlin]

128. To [Sarah Taylor]

129. A Thought on Death

130. Stanzas: In the Manner of Spenser

131. To Lord Byron

132. The First Fire

133. The Caterpillar

134. To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th

135. On the Death of the Princess Charlotte

136. The Wake of the King of Spain

137. The Baby-House

138. Fragment: "As the poor schoolboy"

139. Lines written at the Close of the Year

140. To the New Year, 1823

141. To Mrs. ----, on Returning a fine Hyacinth Plant after the Bloom was over

142. Fragment: "Fall! fall! poor leaf"

143. To Mr. Bowring, on his poetical Translations from various Languages

144. Lines with a Wedding Present

145. To * * * * * * *. Occasioned by his Poem on the Sun

146. Fragment: "Oh is there not a land"

POEMS OF UNKNOWN DATE

147. Enigma: "From rosy bowers"

148. Riddle: "This creature, though extremely thin"

149. Prologue to a Drama, performed by a family Party on the Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. C[arr]'s Marriage

150. Lines written in a young Lady's Album of different-coloured Paper

151. To a Friend

152. Hymn [XII]

Riddles

153. I ("I often murmur")

154. II ("Ye youths and ye virgins")

155. III ("I never talk but in my sleep")

156. IV ("We are spirits all in white")

157. The Lament: a Ballad

158. A Riddle ("An unfortunate maid")

159. Sorrows and Consolations

CONJECTURAL ATTRIBUTIONS

160. [A Rebuke to Robert Southey]

161. India

162. Constantinople

163. Lapland

164. Canada

165. [Lines on Exodus 3:14]

166. [Lines on the Cottage at the Foot of Box Hill, Surrey]

167. Solution of the Charade in the Museum for October

168. To the Lark

169. Surnames

LOST POEMS

DOUBTFUL AND SPURIOUS ATTRIBUTIONS

Notes and Variants

Addenda

Sources of the Poems

Bibiography

Index

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