Table of Contents

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Editorial Note
Maria Abdy (c. 1797-1867)
An Original Thought
My Very Particular FriendLucy Aikin (1781-1864)
from Epistles on WomenJane Austen (1775-1817)
Verses to Rhyme with "Rose"
On a HeadacheJoanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Wind
Thunder
The Kitten
Up! Quit Thy Bower!
Woo'd and Married and A'
Address to a Steam-Vessel
Song ("The gliding fish that takes his play")
The Sun Is Down
Lines to a Teapot
The Maid of LlanwellynAnna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Mouse's Petition
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
A Summer Evening's Meditation
Tomorrow
Inscription for an Ice-House
To the Poor
Washing-Day
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem
Life
The Baby-House
Riddle ("From rosy bowers we issue forth")Mrs. E. -G. Bayfield (A. 1803-1816)
The Danger of DiscontentElizabeth Bentley (1767-1839)
To a RedbreastMatilda Betham (1776-1852)
To Miss Rouse Boughton, Now the Right Hon.
Lady St. John
Sonnet ("Urge me no more!")
To a Llangollen Rose, The Day after It Had
Been Given by Miss Ponsonby
Fragment ("A Pilgrim weary, toil-subdued")
The Daughter
II ("Lucy, I think not of my beauty")
VII ("Come, Magdalen, and bind my hair")Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
The Nabob
The Siller Croun
What Ails This Heart o'Mine?
The Chelsea Pensioners
Barley Broth
Stoklewath; or, The Cumbrian Village Countess of Blessington (1790-1849)
Stock in Trade of Modern PoetessesMary Ann Browne (1812-1844)
A World without Water
The Song of the Elements
The Wild Horse
To a Wild BeeLady Byron (nee Anne Isabella Milbanke) (1792-1860)
To AdaDorothea Primrose Campbell (1793-1863)
The Shetland FishermanAnn Candler (1740-1814)
Reflections on My Own SituationElizabeth Cobbold (nee Eliza Knipe) (1767-1824)
On the Lake of Windermere
Keswick
The Nurse and the NewspaperSara Coleridge (1802-1852)
Poppies
I Was a Brook
Blest Is the Tarn
Milk-White Doe, 'Tis But the Breeze
I Tremble When with Look Benign
The Captive Bird with Ardour SingsHannah Cowley (1743-1809)
Monologue
InvocationAnn Batten Cristall (c. 1768-after 1816)
Written in Devonshire, near the Dart
To a Lady, on the Rise of Morn
Songs of Arla (from "The Enthusias")
Song I ("Wild wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain")
Song II ("With awe my soul the wreck of Nature views")
Song III ("Impassion'd strains my trembling lips rehearse")
Verses Written in the Spring
A Song of Arla Written during her Enthusiasm
An Ode ("Almighty Power! who rul'st this world of storms!")
Song on Leaving the Country Early in the SpringCatherine Ann Dorset (1750?-1817?)
The Humble Bee
To the Lady-BirdMaria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
On Chauntry's Statue of Watt in Handsworth Church
To Mrs. Carr
Laura Leicester
With a Dyed Silk Quilt Sent to Aunt RuxtonSusan Evance (A. 1808-1818)
Sonnet to Melancholy
Sonnet Written in a Ruinous Abbey
Sonnet to a Violet
Sonnet to the Clouds Written during a Storm of WindCatherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834)
A Riddle (" 'Twas in heaven pronounced, and 'twas muttered in hell")
Fragment in Imitation of WordsworthAnne Grant (Mrs. Grant of Laggan) (1755-1838)
PostscriptElizabeth Hands (A. 1789)
A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper
A Poem, on the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read
Written, Originally Extempore, on Seeing a Mad Heifer Run through the Village
A Song ("Ye swains cease to flatter")
On a Wedding
The Widower's Courtship
Mary Hays (1760-1843)
Invocation to the Nightingale
Ode to Her BullfinchFelicia Hemans (1793-1835)
Epitaph on Mr. W —-, a Celebrated Mineralogist
Epitaph on the Hammer of the Aforesaid Mineralogist
The Voice of Spring
The Messenger Bird
Bring Flowers
Troubadour Song
The Graves of a Household
The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
A Monarch's Death-Bed
Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death
Casabianca
The Wings of the Dove
The Image in Lava
The Coronation of Inez de Castro
Indian Woman's Death-Song
Arabella Stuart
The Dreamer
The Return
The Painter's Last Work — A Scene
I Dream of All Things FreeMary Howitt (1799-1888)
The Countess Lamberti
The Spider and the Fly
The Voyage with the Nautilus
Tibbie Inglis, or The Scholar's Wooing
The Nettle-King
The Broom-Flower
A Swinging Song
The Sea-Gull
Old Christmas
The Fairies of the Caldon LowAnna Maria Jones (1748-1829)
Sonnet to the MoonLady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
Invocation to SleepLetitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
The Oak
Home
Another Epistle to Nell
To My Aunty
On Reading Lady Mary Montague and Mrs. Rowe's Letters
To a Lady Who Sent the Author Some Paper with a Reading of Sillar's Poems Given to a Lady Who Asked Me to Write a Poem
On Seeing Mr. —— Baking Cakes
The Month's LoveMaria Logan (fl. 1793)
To Opium
Verses on Hearing That an Airy and Pleasant Situation... Was Surrounded with New BuildingsChristian Milne (1773-after 1816)
To a Lady, Who Did Me the Honour to Call at My House
Sent with a Flower Pot, Begging a Slip of Geranium
On a Lady, Who Spoke with Some Ill-Nature of the Advertisement of My Little Work in the "Aberdeen Journal"
To a Gentleman, Desirous of Seeing My Manuscripts
Song ("At eve, when Dee's transparent stream")Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
Winter Scenery, January, 1809
To Mr. LucasElizabeth Moody (d. 1814)
To Dr. Darwin, On Reading His Loves of the Plants
To Sleep, a Song
The Housewife; or, The Muse Learning to Ride the Great Horse HeroicHannah More (1745-1833)
The Black Slave Trade. A Poem
Countess of Morley (1781-1857)
A Party of Pleasure up the River Tamer
EpilogueCarolina, Baroness Nairne (1766-1845)
The Laird o' Cockpen
Caller Herrin'
The Lass o' Gowrie
John Tod
The Land o' the Leal
Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
I Do Not Love Thee
The Faithless Knight
We Have Been Friends Together
The Arab's Farewell to His HorseHenrietta O'Neill (1758-1793)
Ode to the PoppyAmelia Opie (1769-1853)
Ode: Written on the Opening of the Last Campaign
Stanzas Written under Aeolus's Harp
Allen Brooke, of Windermere
An Evening Walk at Cromer
Song ("I know you false")
Song ("Go, youth beloved")
The Despairing WandererIsabel Pagan (c. 1741-1821)
Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes
The Crook and Plaid
Account of the Author's Lifetime
A New Love Song, with the Answer
The Answer
On Burns and Ramsay
A Letter
The Spinning Wheel
A Love Letter
Muirkirk Light WeightsAnn Radcliffe (1764-1823)
To the Nightingale
Song of a Spirit
Sunset
The First Hour of Morning
Sonnet ("Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve")
To Melancholy
The Sea-Nymph
Rondeau
Storied Sonnet
Shakspeare's Cliff
To the River Dove
The Sea-Mew
On a First View of the Group Called the Seven Mountains
A Second View of the Seven MountainsEmma Roberts (1794?-1840)
Song ("Upon the Ganges' regal stream")Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
The Linnet