Anthologies

Women Romantic Poets

1785-1832
An Anthology

Edited by Jennifer Breen

London: J. M. Dent and Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1992, 1994.

CONTENTS

Note on the Authors and Editor

Chronology of the Times

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Note on the Texts of the Poems

HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS

A Song

To Dr Moore, In Answer to a Poetical Epistle Written by Him in Wales

To the Curlew

To Mrs K____, On Her Sending Me an English Christmas Plum-Cake at Paris

HELEN LEIGH

The Lady and the Doctor

The Natural Child

HANNAH MORE

Slavery

Patient Joe, Or the Newcastle Collier

The Hackney Coachman

ELIZABETH BENTLEY

On Education

ELIZABETH HANDS

A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid

A Poem, on the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read

Perplexity: A Poem

The Favourite Swain

The Widower's Courtship

On An Unsociable Family

ANNA SEWARD

Sonnet: To the Poppy

Sonnet LXXXIV

Sonnet XCI

Sonnet XCII

CHARLOTTE SMITH

Sonnet Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs H____y

Sonnet: On Being Cautioned against Walking on a Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic

On the Departure of the Nightingale

JOANNA BAILLIE

A Winter's Day

A Summer's Day

A Reverie

A Disappointment

A Mother to Her Waking Infant

A Child to His Sick Grandfather

Hooly and Fairly

The Black Cock

Song

MARY ROBINSON

January, 1795

Stanzas

The Birth-day

London's Summer Morning

ANNA BARBAULD

The Rights of Woman

To the Poor

To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible

Washing Day

To Mr [S. T.] C[oleridge]

ANNE GRANT

A Familiar Epistle to a Friend

MATILDA BETHAM

Invitation To JBC

Letter to ARC On Her Wishing to be Called Anna

ANN YEARSLEY

To Mira, On the Care of Her Infant

The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin

ELIZABETH MOODY

To Fashion

To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet

The Housewife; Or, The Muse Learning to Ride the Great Horse Heroic: Addressed to Lysander

AMELIA OPIE

Song: Yes, Mary Ann, I freely grant . . .

Song: A youth for Jane with ardour sighed . . .

Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale . . .

ANNA DODSWORTH

To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq., On a Noble Captain Declaring that His Finger Was Broken by a Gate

ELIZA KIRKHAM MATHEWS

The Indian

CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON

Valentine: To RR Written Extempore Feb. 14 1802

The Redbreast

The Rainbow

ANNE HUNTER

To My Daughter On Being Separated from Her on Her Marriage

Winter: A Sonnet

JANE TAYLOR

The Violet

The Poppy

Poverty

Recreation

CHRISTIAN MILNE

To A Lady Who Said It Was Sinful to Read Novels

Sent with a Flower-Pot Begging a Slip of Geranium

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH

Address To A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening

The Mother's Return

Floating Island

Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to A Child

MARY LAMB

Envy

The Reaper's Child

The Rook and the Sparrows

The First Tooth

Choosing A Profession

Breakfast

The Two Boys

Conquest of Prejudice

CAROLINA NAIRNE

The Laird o' Cockpen

Caller Herrin'

Lay Bye Yere Bawbee

FELICIA HEMANS

A Dirge

To Wordsworth

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Revenge

Lines of Life

New Year's Eve

Change

Notes on the Authors

Select Bibliography

Index of Authors

Index of First Lines and Titles


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