spine Poems *
by Anna Lætitia Aikin

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C O N T E N T S.
Title Page.
Corsica. Page 1.
The Invitation, To Miss B----. 13.
The Groans of the Tankard. 25.
On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771. 31.
VERSES written in an Alcove. 33.
The Mouse's Petition. 37.
To Mrs. P--------., With Drawings of Birds and Insects. 41.
Characters. 49.
On a Lady's writing. 52.
Hymn to Content. 53.
To Wisdom. 57.
The Origin of Song-Writing. 59.
Songs. 66.
Delia, An Elegy. 82.
Ovid to his Wife. Page 88.
To a Lady, with painted Flowers. 95.
Ode to Spring. 97.
Verses on Mrs. Rowe. 101.
To Miss R----, On her Attendance on her Mother at Buxton. 104.
On the Death of Mrs. Jennings. 107.
Hymns. 110.
An Address to the Deity. 125.
A Summer Evening's Meditation. 131.

* 1773 edition of Poems courtesy Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, University of Alberta.
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Poems (1773)
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Table of Contents

Introduction to this Hypertext

Acknowledgements

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Contemporary View
"Observations on Female Literature in General, Including Some Particulars Relating to Mrs. Montagu and Mrs. Barbauld," The Westminster Magazine (June 1776): 283-5

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"On a Lady's Writing"

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Anna Barbauld: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography of Barbauld's Works, by Daniel E. White, University of Puget Sound

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