Anthologies

The Poems of Charlotte Smith

Edited by Stuart Curran

New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1993

Foreword
Introduction

Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

To William Hayley, Esq.
Preface to the first and second editions
Preface to the third and fourth editions
Preface to the fifth edition
Preface to the sixth edition
Preface to the second edition of Volume II
I
II. Written at the close of spring
III. To a nightingale
IV. To the moon
V. To the South Downs
VI. To hope
VII. On the departure of the nightingale
VIII. To spring
IX.
X. To Mrs. G
XI. To sleep
XII. Written on the sea shore.--October. 1784
XIII. From Petrarch
XIV. From Petrarch
XV. From Petrarch
XVI. From Petrarch
XVI. From the thirteenth cantata of Metastasio
XVII. To the Earl of Egremont
XIX. To Mr. Hayley
XX. To the Countess of A--
XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter
XXII. By the same. To solitude
XXIII. By the same. To the North Star
XXIV. By the same
XXV. By the same. Just before his death
XXVI. To the River Arun
XXVII.
XXVIII. To friendship
XXIX. To Miss C--
XXX. To the River Arun
XXXI. Written in Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784
XXXII To melancholy. Written on the banks of the Arun
XXXIII. To the naiad of the Arun
XXXIV. To a friend
XXXV. To fortitude
XXXVI.
XXXVII. Sent to the Honorable Mrs. O'Neill
XXXVIII.
XXXIX. To night
XL.
XLI. To tranquillity
XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs
XLIII.
XLIV. Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex
XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in autumn 1788
XLVII. To fancy
XLVIII. To Mrs. ****
XLIX. Supposed to have been written in a church-yard
L.
LI. Supposed to have been written in the Hebrides
LII. The pilgrim
LIII. The Laplander
LIV. The sleeping woodman. Written in April 1790
LV. The return of the nightingale. Written in May 1791
LVI. The captive escaped in the wilds of America
LVII. To dependence
LVIII. The glow-worm
LIX. Written September 1791, during a remarkable thunder storm
LX. To an amiable girl
LXI. Supposed to have been written in America
LXII. Written on passing by moonlight through a village
LXIII. The gossamer
LXIV. Written at Bristol in the summer of 1794
LXV. To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic drawings
LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex
LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country
LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, midsummer, 1795
LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a seaman return
LXX. On being cautioned against walking on an headland
LXXI. Written at Weymouth in winter
LXXII. To the morning star. Written near the sea
LXXIII. To a querulous acquaintance
LXXIV. The winter night
LXXV.
LXXVI. To a young man entering the world
LXXVII. To the insect of the gossamer
LXXVIII. Snowdrops
LXXIX. To the goddess of botany
LXXX. To the invisible moon
LXXXI.
LXXXII. To the shade of Burns
LXXXIII. The sea view
LXXXIV. To the Muse
LXXXV.
LXXXVI. Written near a port on a dark evening
LXXXVII. Written in October
LXXXVIII. Nepenthe
LXXXIX. To the sun
XC. To oblivion
XCI Reflections on some drawings of plants
XCII. Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799
Ode to despair
Elegy
Song from the French of Cardinal Bernis
The origin of flattery
The peasant of the Alps
Song
Thirty-eight
Verses intended to have been prefixed to the novel of Emmeline
The dead beggar
The female exile
Written for the benefit of a distressed player
Inscription on a stone, in the church-yard at Boreham
A descriptive ode
Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest
Song from the French
Apostrophe to an old tree
The forest boy
Verses, on the death of [Henrietta O'Neill]
April
Ode to death
Stanzas
To the winds
To Vesper
Lydia

The Emigrants

To William Cowper, Esq.
Book the First
Book the Second

Uncollected Poems

Hymn to love and life
Sonnet to the Forest Ytene
Prologue to What is She?
Epilogue [A] to What is She?
Epilogue [B] to What is She?
Epilogue [C] to What is She?
Prologue to Godwin's Antonio

Conversations Introducing Poetry

To a green-chafer, on a white rose
A walk by the water
Invitation to the bee
The hedge-hog seen in a frequented path
The early butterfly
The moth
To the snow-drop
Violets
To a butterfly in a window
Wild flowers
The close of Summer
The wheat-ear
An evening walk by the sea-side
The heath
Ode to the missel thrush
Ode to the olive tree
To the fire-fly of Jamaica
Lines composed in passing through a forest in Germany
To a geranium which flowered during the winter
To the mulberry-tree

Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems

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Beachy Head
Notes to the Fables
The dictatorial owl
The jay in masquerade
The truant dove, from Pilpay
The lark's nest
The swallow
Flora
Studies by the sea
The horologe of the fields
Saint Monica
A walk in the shrubbery
Hope. A rondeau
Evening
Love and Folly
On the aphorism "L'Amitié est l'Amour sans ailes"
To my lyre

Textual Notes
Index of First Lines
Index of Titles

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