Anthologies

The New Book of Eighteenth Century Verse

Edited by Roger Lonsdale

Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1989, 1990

CONTENTS

Introduction

Acknowledgements

JOHN POMFRET (1667-1723)

1. The Choice

THOMAS D'URFEY (1653-1723)

2. Dialogue, between Crab and Gillian

JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1709)

3. from The Splendid Shilling

4. from Blenheim

JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)

5. The Humble Petition of Frances Harris

6. Baucis and Philemon

7. A Description of the Morning

8. A Description of a City Shower

9. In Sickness

10. To Stella, March 13, 1723-4

11. Stella's Birthday, 1725

12. A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed

13. The Day of Judgement

14. Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift

DANIEL DEFORE (1660-1731)

15. from Reformation of Manners

LAWRENCE SPOONER (fl. 1703)

16. from A Looking-Glass for Smokers

LADY MARY CHUDLEIGHT (1656-1710)

17. To the Ladies

SARAH FYGE EGERTON (1670-1723)

18. The Emulation

WILLIAM CONGREVE (1670-1729)

19. A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret

20. Song

21. Song

22. Doris

JOSEPH ADDISON (1672-1719)

23. A Letter from Italy

24. Ode

25. Song

MATTHEW PRIOR (164-1721)

26. To a Child of Quality of Five Years Old

27. A Simile

28. An Ode

29. A Dutch Proverb

30. from Solomon on the Vanity of the World

31. Jinny the Just

32. Daphne and Apollo

33. The Lady who Offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

34. A Better Answer to Cloe Jealous

35. A True Maid

36. A Reasonable Affliction

37. from Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind

38. A Letter to the Honourable Lady Miss Margaret Cavendish-Holles-Harley

ANONYMOUS

39. Ignotum per Ignotius, or a Furious Hodge-Podge of Nonsense

EDWARD WARD (1667-1731)

40. from A Journey to H[e]ll

41. Dialogue between a Squeamish Cotting Mechanic and his Sluttish

Wife, in the Kitchen

42. The Extravagant Drunkard's Wish

ISAAC WAATS (1674-1748)

43. Few Happy Matches

44. The Day of Judgement

45. Crucifixion to the World by the Cross of Christ

46. The Adventurous Muse

47. The Hurry of the Spirits, in a Fever and Nervous Disorders

48. Praise for Mercies Spiritual and Temporal

49. Against Idleness and M ischief

50. The Sluggard

51. Innocent Play

52. Man Frail, and God Eternal

ANDREW MICHAEL RAMSAY (1686-1743)

53. Friendship in Perfection

ANONYMOUS

54. On the Death of Old Bennet the News-Crier

WILLIAM KING (1662-1712)

55. The Beggar Woman

JOHN REYNOLDS (1667-1727)

56. from Death's Vision

WILLIAM DIAPER (1685-1717)

57. from Brent, a Poem

58. from Oppian's Halieuticks

AMBROSE PHILLIPS (1674-1749)

59. A Winter-Piece

60. To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in her Mother's Arms

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

61. The Alley. An Imitation of Spenser

62. from An Essay on Criticism

63. from Windsor Forest

64. from The Rape of the Lock

65. Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town, after the Coronation

66. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

67. A Hymn Written in Windsor Forest

68. To Mr. Gay. . . On the Finishing his House

69. On a Certain Lady at Court

BERNARD MANDEVILLE (1670-1733)

70. On Honour

JOHN SMITH (1662-1717)

71. A Solitary Canto to Chloris the Disdainful

ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720)

72. A Nocturnal Reverie

73. A Song on the South Sea

SAMUEL JONES (d. 1732)

74. Poverty, in Imitation of Milton

75. The Force of Love

76. The Ploughman, in Imitation of Milton

RICHARDSON PACK (1682-1728)

77. An Epistle from a Half-Pay Officer in the Country

WILLIAM HARRISON (1685-1713)

78. In Praise of Laudanum

THOMAS PARNELL (1679-1718)

79. A Hymn to Contentment

80. An Elegy, to an Old Beauty

81. A Night-Piece on Death

JOHN GAY (1685-1732)

82. from The Shepherd's Week

83. from Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London

84. The Birth of the Squire. An Eclogue

85. To a Young Lady With Some Lampreys

86. Sweet William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan

87. My Own Epitaph

88. from Fables

89. from The Beggar's Opera

90. from Polly, An Opera

91. from Acis and Galatea. An English Pastoral Opera

JOHN WINSTANLEY (1678?-1750)

92. Fanny's Removal in 1714

93. Epigram on the First of April

94. Miss Betty's Singing-Bird

95. To the Revd. Mr.-- on his Drinking Sea-Water

MARY MONCK (1690?-1715)

96. Masque of the Virtues against Love. From Guarini

97. On a Romantic Lady

HENRY CAREY (1687?-1743)

98. The Ballad of Sally in our Alley

99. from Namby-Pamby: or, A Panegyric on the New Versification

100. A Lilliputian Ode on their Majesties' Accession

101. Roger and Dolly

CAPTAIN H--- (fl. 1716)

102. An Imitation of Martial, Book XI Ep. 104

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)

103. from Six Town Eclogues

104. A Receipt to the Cure the Vapours

LEONARD WELSTED (1688-1747)

105. The Invitation

ALEXANDER PENNECUIK (d. 1730)

106. from A Marriage Betwixt Scrape, Monarch of the Maunders and Blobberlips, Queen of the Gypsies

EDWARD LITTLETON (1698?-1758)

107. The Spider

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758)

108. Polwart on the Green

109. Up in the Air

110. An Ode to Mr. F[orbes]

111. Lass with a Lump of Land

THOMAS TICKELL (1685-1740)

112. To the Earl of Warwick. On the Death of Mr. Addison

SAMUEL CROXALL (1690?-1752)

113. Sylvia

CHARLES MORDAUNT, EARL OF PETERBOROUGH (1658-1735)

114. 'I Said to my Heart'

DAVID MALLET (1705?-1765)

115. William and Margaret

ELIZABETH TOLLET (1694-1754)

116. from Hypatia

117. Winter Song

HENRY BAKER (1698-1774)

118. The Rapture

119. Love

120. The Declaimer

HETTY WRIGHT (1697-1750)

121. Wedlock. A Satire

122. To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth

JOHN DYER (1700-1758)

123. To Clio. From Rome

124. Gyongar Hill

125. My Ox Duke

126. from The Fleece

GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753)

127. On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

JONATHAN RICHARDSON (1667?-1745)

128. On My Late Dear Wife

129. Self-Consciousness Makes All Changes Happy. Ode

SAMUEL WESLEY (1691-1739)

130. On the Seting up Mr. Butler's Monument in Westminster Abbey

131. An Epitaph

132. Anacreontic, On Parting with a little Child

JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748)

133. Winter

134. from To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton

135. Hymn on Solitude

136. Rule, Britannia

137. from The Castle of Indolence

JOHN WRIGHT (fl. 1708-1727)

138. The Poor Man's Province

CHRISTOPHER PITT (1699-1748)

139. On the Masquerades

FRANCIS HAWLING (fl. 1727)

140. from The Signal: or, A Satire against Modesty

ANONYMOUS

141. [The Dream]

WILLIAM SOMERVILE (1675-1742)

142. from The Bowling-Green

143. Hudibras and Milton Reconciled

144. from The Chase

JOHN BYROM (1692-1763)

145. Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini

146. To Henry Wright of Mobberley, Esq. On Buying the Picture of F[ather] Malebranche

147. Tom the Porter

148. Careless Content

149. On the Origin of Evil

RICHARD SAVAGE (1697?-1743)

150. from The Bastard

EDWARD CHICKEN (1698-1746)

151. from The Collier's Wedding

ANONYMOUS

152. from The Comparison

JAMES BRAMSTON (1694?-1743)

153. from The Art of Politics

154. from The Man of Taste

ANDREW BRICE (1690-1773)

155. from Freedom: A Poem, Written in Time of Recess from the Rapacious Claws of Bailiffs

STEPHEN DUCK (1705-1756)

156. from The Thresher's Labour

HILDEBRAND JACOB (1693-1739)

157. The Judgement of Tiresias

158. to Geron

159. To Cloe

160. The Alarm

COLLEY CIBBER (1671-1757)

161. The Blind Boy

CHARLES WOODWARD (fl. 1731)

162. The Midnight Ramble

MARY BARBER (1690?-1757)

163. Written for My Son. . . at His First Putting on Breeches

164. On seeing an Officer's Widow distracted

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)

165. from An Epistle to Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington

166. from An Essay on Man

167. An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot

168. Epistle to a Lady: Of the Characters of Women

169. from One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight, Dialogue II

170. Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog

171. On the Benefactions in the Late Frost

172. from The Dunciad

ROBERT DODSLEY (1703-1764)

173. An Epistle to My Friend J.B.

GEORGE FAREWELL (fl. 1733)

174. An Adieu to my Landlady

175. Privy-love for my Landlady

176. from The Country Man

177. Molly Moor

178. To the Archdeacon

179. Quaere

180. There's Life in a Mussel. A Meditation

SAMUEL BOWDEN (fl. 1726-1771)

181. from The Paper Kite

ANONYMOUS

182. A Receipt to Cure a Love Fit

JOHN BANCKS (1709-1751)

183. A Fragment

184. A Description of London

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, EARL OF CHESTERFIELD (1694-1773)

185. To a Lady on Reading Sherlock Upon Death

186. Advice to a Young Lady

187. On Mr. Nash's Present of his own Picture

188. Song

ROBERT TATERSAL (fl. 1734)

189. The Bricklayer's Labours

JEAN ADAMS (1710-1765)

190. A Dream, or the Type of the Rising Sun

ANONYMOUS

191. On a Female Rope-Dancer

THOMAS GILBERT (1713?-1747)

192. from A View of the Town. In an Epistle to a Friend

ANONYMOUS

193. Laudanum

MATTHEW GREEN (1696-1737)

194. On Barclay's Apology for the Quakers

195. from The Spleen. An Epistle to Mr. C-- J--

MOSES BROWNE (1704-1787)

196. A Survey of the Amphitheatre

197. from The Shrimp

JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709-1779)

198. from The Oceonomy of Love. A Poetical Essay

199. from The Art of Preserving Health

HENRY TAYLOR (1711-1785)

200. The Country Curate

ANONYMOUS

201. from The Art of Wenching

ANONYMOUS

202. from The Diseases of Bath. A Satire

AARON HILL (1685-1750)

203. Whitehall Stairs

204. May-Day

205. Alone in an Inn at Southampton, April the 25th, 1737

WILLIAM SHESTONE (1714-1763)

206. The School-Mistress

207. Elegy XI

208. A Solemn Meditation

209. Written at an Inn at Henley

JOHN WESLEY

210. Hymn

E. DOWER (fl. 1738)

211. The New River Head, a Fragment

SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)

212. from London

213. An Epitaph on Claudy Phillips, a Musician

214. Prologue, Spoken by Mr. Garrick at the Opening of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1747

215. The Vanity of Human Wishes

216. A Short Song of Congratulation

217. On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet

MARY COLLIER (1690?-c. 1762)

218. from The Woman's Labour. An Epistle to Mr. Stephen Duck

JOHN GAMBOLD (1711-1771)

219. The Mystery of Life

SIR CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS (1708-1759)

220. from Isabella; or, The Morning

RICHARD GLOVER (1712-1785)

221. Admiral Hosier's Ghost

SARAH DIXON (1672-1745)

222. Lines Occasioned by the Burning of Some Letters

ANONYMOUS

223. Epitaph on a Child Killed by Procured Abortion

CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788)

224. Morning Hymn

225. In Temptation

226. Wrestling Jacob

227. [Inextinguishable Blaze]

ANONYMOUS

228. from Bedlam: A Poem on His Majesty's Happy Escape from his German Dominions

WILLIAM DUNKIN (1709?-1765)

229. from An Epistle to R[o]b[er]t N[u]g[en]t, Esq.With a Picture of Doctor Swift [in Old Age]

NICHOLAS JAMES (fl. 1742)

230. from The Complaints of Poverty

EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)

231. from The Complaint, or Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)

232. Ode on the Spring

233. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

234. Sonnet on the Death of Mr. Richard West

235. Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes

236. Tophet

237. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

238. The Progress of Poesy. A Pindaric Ode

239. The Bard. A Pindaric Ode

240. from Ode on the Pleasure Arising from Vicissitude

241. The Death of Hoel

242. On L[or]d H[olland']s Seat near M[argat]e, K[en]t

ROBERT BLAIR (1699-1746)

243. from The Grave

JOSIAH RELPH (1712-1743)

244. Hay-Time; or The Constant Lovers. A Pastoral

THOMAS MATHISON (d. 1754)

245. from The Goff. An Heroi-Comical Poem

PAUL WHITEHEAD (1710-1774)

246. from The Gymnasiad, or Boxing Match

JAMES DANCE (later LOVE) (1722-1774)

247. from Cricket. An Heroic Poem

ANONYMOUS

248. On the Death of Mr. Pope

ANONYMOUS

249. Spoken Extempore on the Death of Mr. Pope

WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

250. A Song from Shakespeare's Cymbeline

251. Ode to Fear

252. Ode on the Poetical Character

253. Ode Written in the Beginning of the Year 1746

254. Ode to Evening

255. Ode Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Thomson

256. An Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland

JOSEPH WARTON (1722-1800)

257. from The Enthusiast: or The Lover of Nature

258. from Ode to Fancy

259. The Dying Indian

MARK AKENSIDE (1721-1770)

260. from The Pleasures of Imagination

261. Inscription for a Grotto

262. Inscription

SNEYD DAVIES (1709-1769)

263. from A Voyage to Tintern Abbey

264. A Scene [after Hunting] at Swallowfield in Berkshire

ANONYMOUS

265. Delia Very Angry

ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE (1705-1760)

266. The Fire Side. A Pastoral Soliloquy

JOHN DOBSON (fl. 1746)

267. Robin. A Pastoral Elegy

TOBIAS SMOLLETT (1721-1771)

268. The Tears of Scotland, Written in the Year of 1746

MARY LEAPOR (1722-1746)

269. An Essay on Woman

270. Mira's Will

271. An Epistle to a Lady

JOHN ELLIS (1698-1791)

272. Sarah Hazard's Love Letter

ANONYMOUS

273. [The Poetess's Bouts-Rimes]

WILLIAM WHITEHEAD

274. New Night Thoughts on Death. A Parody

275. The Sweepers

THOMAS WARTON (1728-1790)

276. from The Pleasures of Melancholy

277. Sonnet. To the River Lodon

278. Verses on Sir Joshua Reynolds's Painted Window at New College, Oxford

ROBERT NUGENT, EARL NUGENT (1702-1788)

279. To Clarissa

280. Epigrams

THOMAS EDWARDS (1699-1757)

281. Sonnet on a Family-Picture

ANONYMOUS

282. from A Collection of Hymns. . . of the Moravian Brethren

CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)

283. A Morning-Piece, or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers

284. A Night-Piece, or, Modern Philosophy

285. from Hymn to the Supreme Being on Recovery from a Dangerous Fit of Illness

286. from Jubilate Agno

287. from A Song to David

288. On A Bed of Guernsey Lilies

289. Hymn. St. Philip and St. James

290. Hymn. The Nativity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

291. Gratitude

292. For Saturday

293. Pray Remember the Poor

HENRY BROOKE (1703?-1783)

294. from Jack the Giant Queller. An Antique History

ANONYMOUS ('C.G.H.')

295. The Power of Innocence

CATHERINE JEMMAT (fl. 1750-1766)

296. The Rural Lass

ANONYMOUS

297. A Song

PHILIP DODDRIDGE (1702-1751)

298. Meditations on the Sepulchre in the Garden

ANONYMOUS

299. Strip Me Naked, or Royal Gin for Ever. A Picture

SOAME JENYNS (1704-1787)

300. The Modern Fine Lady

301. The Temple of Venus

JOHN BROWN (1715-1766)

302. [A Rhapsody, Written at the Lakes in Westmorland]

ANONYMOUS

303. Tree-Topped Hill

ANONYMOUS

304. Mally

ANONYMOUS

305. Autumn

ANONYMOUS

306. A Description of the Spring in London

JOHN DALTON (1709-1763)

307. from A Descriptive Poem, Addressed to Two Ladies, at their Return from Viewing the Mines, near Whitehaven

ROBERT LLOYD

308. The Cit's Country Box

309. from Shakespeare, an Epistle to David Garrick, Esq.

310. from A Familiar Epistle to J.B. Esq.

KENRICK PRESCOT (1702-1779)

311. Balsham Bells

ROBERT ANDREWS (d. 1766?)

312. Mercury. On Losing my Pocket Milton at Luss

313. Urania

ANONYMOUS ('AGRICOLA')

314. The D[ave]ntry Wonder

ANONYMOUS ('J.T.')

315. A Sea-Chaplain's Petition to the Lieutenants

DAVID GARRICK (1717-1779)

316. Heart of Oak

FRANCES GREVILLE (172--?-1789)

317. A Prayer for Indifference

JOHN MACLAURIN, LORD DREGHORN (1734-1796)

318. Elegy

JAMES MACPHERSON (1736-1796)

319. from Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland

ANONYMOUS

320. The Linen Weaver

WILLIAM WOTY (1731-1791)

321. White Conduit House

322. from A Mock Invocation to Genius

323. Lines Written in the Dog-Days

JAMES CAWTHORN (1719-1761)

324. from Of Taste. An Essay

FRANCIS FAWKES (1720-1777)

325. An Elegy on the Death of Dobbin, the Butterwoman's Horse

JOHN CUNNINGHAM (1729-1773)

326. Morning

THOMAS MORRIS (1832-1806?)

327. [Sapphics: At the Mohawk-Castle, Canada]

EMANUEL COLLINS (b. 1712?)

328. The Fatal Dream: or, the Unhappy Favourite

THOMAS MOZEEN (d. 1768)

329. The Bedlamite

ANONYMOUS

330. Corydon's Farewell, on Sailling in the Late Expedition Fleet

JAMES EYRE WEEKS (b. 1719?)

331. On the Great Fog in London, December 1762

GEORGE ALEXANDER STEVENS (1710-1784)

332. Bartleme Fair

333. Repentance

334. A Simple Patoral

JOHN COLLIER (1708-1786)

335. The Pluralist and Old Soldier

ANONYMOUS

336. To a Gentleman, Who Desired Proper Materials for a Monody

CHARLES CHURCHILL (1731-1764)

337. from The Rosciad

338. from The Prophecy of Famine

339. from Gotham

JAMES GRAINGER (1721-1766)

340. from The Sugar Cane

OLIVER GOLDSMITH (1730?-1774)

341. from The Traveller, or a Prospect of Society

342. An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

343. [Song]

344. The Deserted Village

345. from Retaliation

LEONARD HOWARD (1699?-1767)

346. The Humours of the King's Bench Prison

THOMAS PERCY (1729-1811)

347. The Friar of Orders Gray

CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY (1724-1805)

348. from The New Bath Guide

EVAN LLOYD (1734-1776)

349. from The Methodist

FREDERICK FORREST (fl. 1766)

350. St. Anthony and his Pig. A Cantata

ANONYMOUS

351. Sir Dilberry Diddle, Captain of Militia

RICHARD JAGO (1715-1781)

352. from Edge-Hill, or The Rural Prospect Delineated and Moralised

MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-1767)

353. Ode: To the Cuckoo

354. from Elegy: To Spring

ANONYMOUS ('WORCESTER')

355. A Pastoral. In the Modern Style

WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE (1735-1788)

356. There's nae Luck about the House

THOMAS MOSS (1740?-1808)

357. The Beggar

JOHN GERRARD (fl. 1769)

358. A Remonstrance

ANONYMOUS

359. A Song

THOMAS CHATTERTON (1752-1770)

360. from Aella: A Tragycal Enterlude

361. An Excelente Balade of Charitie

362. Sentiment

GILBERT WHITE (1720-1793)

363. The Naturalist's Summer-Evening Walk

364. On the Dark, Still, Dry, Warm Weather

GEORGE SMITH (1713-1776)

365. The Country Lovers

ISAAC BICKERSTAFFE (1733-1808?)

366. from The Recruiting Serjeant

WILLIAM MASON (1724-1797)

367. from The English Garden

JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803)

368. from The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius

LADY ANNE LINDSAY (later BARNARD) (1750-1825)

369. Auld Robin Gray

GEORGE KEATE (1729-1797)

370. from A Burlesque Ode, On the Author's Clearing a New House of Some Workmen

CHARLES JENNER (1736-1774)

371. from Eclogue IV. The Poet

JAMES GRAEME (1749-1772)

372. The Mortified Genius

ROBERT FERGUSSON (1750-1774)

373. The Daft-Days

374. Braid Claith

374. The Sow of Feeling

HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD (1717-1797)

376. To Lady [Anne Fitzpatrick], When about Five Years Old

377. Epitaph on Two Piping-Bullfinches

WILLIAM COWPER (1731-1800)

378. Walking with God

379. Light Shining out of Darkness

380. 'Hatred and Vengeance, my Eternal Portion'

381. To Mr. Newton on his Return from Ramsgate

382. Verses, Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk

383. Epitaph on a Hare

384. The Poplar-Field

385. from The Task

386. Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce

387. On the Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bullfinch

388. On the Receipt of My Mother's Picture out of Norfolk

389. Yardley Oak

390. To Mary

391. Lines Written upon a Window-Shutter at Weston

392. The Castaway

PHILLIS WHEATLEY (1753?-1784)

393. On Being Brought from Africa to America

ANONYMOUS

394. Morning

JOHN LANGHORNE (1735-1779)

395. from The Country Justice

CHARLES DIBDIN (1745-1814)

396. [The Jolly Young Waterman]

397. [A Popular Functionary]

398. Poor Tom

399. The Lady's Diary

400. The Anchorsmiths

THOMAS PENROSE (1742-1779)

401. The Helmets, A Fragment

ANONYMOUS

from Modern Midnight Conversation

402. Between an Unemployed Artist and his Wife

403. Between a Contractor and his Wife

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN (1751-1816)

404. from The Duenna

405. from The School for Scandal

AUGUSTUS MONTAGU TOPLADY (1740-1778)

406. A Living and Dying Prayer

ANONYMOUS

407. Boston in Distress

ANONYMOUS ('M.')

408. On the Frequent Review of the Troops

ANONYMOUS

409. Hob upon a Holiday

ANONYMOUS

410. Little Britain

SUSANA BLAMIRE (1747-1794)

411. from Stoklewath; or, The Cumbrian Village

JOHN CODRINGTON BAMPFYLDE (1754-1797)

412. Sonnet

413. On a Frightful Dream

414. To the Evening

415. On a Wet Summer

JOHN NEWTON (1725-1807)

416. The Name of Jesus

417. Zion, or the City of God

J. WILDE (fl. 1779)

418. Verses to Miss----

ANONYMOUS ('BRAIN BENDO')

419. The Dream

JOHN HAWTHORN (fl. 1779)

420. On his Writing Verses

421. from The Journey and Observations of a Countryman

JOHN FREETH (1731?-1808)

422. Bunker's Hill, or the Soldier's Lamentation

423. The Cottager's Complaint

424. Botany Bay

ANONYMOUS

425. A Translation of the Cywdd to Morvydd, an Elegiac Ode

JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783)

426. Ode

SAMUEL HENLEY (1740-1815)

427. Verses Addressed to a Friend, Just Leaving a Favourite Retirement

----O'BRIEN (fl. 1782)

428. The Ghost

EDWARD THOMPSON (1739-1786?)

429. from An Humble Wish. Off Porto-Sancto, March 29, 1779

430. To Emma, Extempore, Hyaena, off Gambia, June 4, 1779

431. The Indian Maid. Demararie, Oct. 27, 1781

GEORGE CRABBE (1754-1832)

432. The Village, Book I

ANONYMOUS ('W. J.')

433. A City Eclogue

THOMAS HOLCROFT (1745-1809)

434. On Shakespeare and Voltaire

435. The Seasons

436. Fool's Song

437. Song

438. The Dying Prostitute, An Elegy

439. Gaffer Gray

440. To Haydn

WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

441. To Spring

442. To the Evening Star

443. Song

444. Mad Song

445. To the Muses

from SONGS OF INNONCENCE

446. Introduction

447. The Little Black Boy

448. Holy Thursday

449. The Lamb

450. The Chimney-Sweeper

451. The Divine Image

from SONGS OF EXPERIENCE

452. Introduction

453. Earth's Answer

454. London

455. The Tiger

453. The Human Abstract

457. The Sick Rose

458. The Chimney-Sweeper

459. Holy Thursday

460. Ah, Sunflower

THOMAS MAURICE (1754-1824)

461. from An Epistle to the Right Hon. Charles James Fox

SIR GEORGE DALLAS (1758-1833)

462. from The India Guide

ROBERT BURNS (1759-1796)

463. Holy Willie's Prayer

464. A Poet's Welcome to his love-begotten Daughter

465. To a Mouse

466. Address to the Deil

467. To a Louse

468. from Love and Liberty. A Cantata

469. Ay Waukin O

470. John Anderson my Jo

471. The Banks o' Doon

472. Song

473. A Red, Red Rose

474. Song: For a' that and a' that

ROBERT MERRY (1755-1798)

475. Sir Roland; a Fragment

JOHN CARR (1732-1807)

476. from Derwent: An Ode

HENRY JAMES PYE (1745-1813)

477. from Aerophorion

JOHN FREDERICK BRYANT (1753-1791)

478. On a Piece of Unwrought Pipeclay

ANN YEARSLEY (1752-1806)

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

L. KER (fl. 1787)

480. The Death of the Gods: An Ode

JOHN O'KEEFE (1747-1833)

481. Air

482. I Want a Tenant: A Satire

CHARLES MORRIS (1745-1838)

483. Addressed to Lady ****, Who Asked What the Passion of Love was?

484. Country and Town

JOHN WOLCOT (1738-1819)

485. from Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat

486. Ode

487. from Resignation: an Ode to the Journeymen Shoemakers

488. To a Fly, Taken out of a Bowl of Punch

489. Ode to a Country Hoyden

490. from The Royal Tour, and Weymouth Amusements

491. from The Sorrows of Sunday: An Elegy

WILLIAM CROWE (1745-1829)

492. from Lewesdon Hill

THOMAS RUSSELL (1762-1788)

493. Sonnet Supposed to be Written at Lemnos

ANONYMOUS

494. The Soldier that has Seen Service

ANNA SEWARD (1742-1809)

495. from Eyam

496. Sonnet

497. from Colebrook Dale

498. An Old Cat's Dying Soliloquy

CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)

499. Sonnet Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex

JOHN WILLIAMS (1761-1818)

500. Matrimony

SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES (1762-1837)

501. Lines Written Immediately after Parting from a Lady

ANONYMOUS

502. To a Lady, with a Present of a Fan

WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES (1762-1850)

503. Sonnet

504. Sonnet. At Ostend, July 22, 1787

ERASMUS DARWIN (1731-1802)

505. Visit of Hope to Sydney Cove, near Botany-Bay

506. from The Botanic Garden

ANDREW MACDONALD (1755?-1790)

507. The Lover's Leap. A Tale

WILLIAM SOTHEBY (1757-1833)

508. Netley Abbey. Midnight

JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)

509. A Disappointment

510. A Mother to her Waking Infant

511. A Child to his Sick Grandfather

512. The Horse and his Rider

SAMUEL BISHOP (1731-1795)

513. Epigrams

JOHN AIKIN (1747-1822)

514. Picturesque; A Fragment

RICHARD POLWHELE (1760-1838)

515. from The Influence of Local Attachment

LAURENCE HYNES HALLORAN (1766-1831)

516. Animal Magnetism. The Pseudo-Philospher Baffled

JOHN TAYLOR (1750-1826)

517. The Trumpet of Liberty

JOHN LEARMONT (fl. 1791)

518. from An Address to the Plebians

ANONYMOUS

519. The Volunteer

WILLIAM SHEPHERD (1768-1847)

520. Ode on Lord Macartney's Embassy to China

JOSEPH MATHER (1737-1804)

521. The File-Hewer's Lamentation

522. God Save Great Thomas Paine

RICHARD GRAVES (1715-1804)

523. Maternal Despotism; or, The Rights of Infants

EDWARD RUSHTON (1756-1814)

524. Human Debasement. A Fragment

JOHN PARRISH (fl. 1793)

525. The Democratic Barber; or, Country Gentleman's Surprise

THOMAS COLE (1727?-1796)

526. from The Life of Hubert, Book I

JAMES WOODHOUSE (1735-1820)

527. from The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus

JAMES KENNEDY (fl. 1795)

528. from The Exile's Reveries

GEORGE GALLOWAY (b. 1755)

529. To the Memory of Gavin Wilson (Boot, Leg, and Arm Maker)

JOSEPH FAWCETT (1758?-1804)

530. from The Art of War

HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)

531. The Riot; or Half a Loaf is Better than No Bread

WILLIAM PARSONS (1758?-1828)

532. To a Friend in Love during the Riots

WILLIAM TAYLOR (1765-1836)

533. The Vision

ANNABELLA PLUMPTRE (1761-1838)

534. from Ode to Moderation

JOHN THELWALL (1764-1834)

535. Sonnet. The Cell

536. from Lines Written at Bridgwater, 27 July 1797

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)

537. The Rights of Woman

538. To Mr. [S. T.] C[olerid]ge

ANONYMOUS ('ORESTES')

539. A Sonnet to Opium; Celebrating its Virtues

EDMUND GARDNER (1752?-1798)

540. Sonnet Written in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire

GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER (1762-1836)

541. from The Maid of the Moor, or The Water-Fiends

CHARLES NEWTON (b. 1776?)

542. from Stanzas

ROBERT SOUTHEY (1774-1843)

543. The Widow

GEORGE CANNING (1770-1827)

544. Sapphics. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-grinder

545. Rogero's Song from The Rovers

546. from New Morality

MARY ALCOCK (1742?-1798)

547. The Chimney-Sweeper's Complaint

548. Written in Ireland

JOSEPH COTTLE (1770-1853)

549. from Malvern Hills

JAMES PLUMPTRE (1770-1832)

550. from Prologue to The Lakers: A Comic Opera

ANONYMOUS ('S.')

551. Ode to the German Drama

JAMES BISSET (1762?-1832)

552. from Ramble of the Gods through Birmingham

Notes and References

Index of First Lines

Index of Authors


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