PREFACE |
3 |
Acrostic for Miss Beverley on her intended Publication |
5 |
On Happiness |
7 |
Verses on some falling Blossoms, written in the
year 1760. |
9 |
A Ballad |
10 |
Ode on Friendship |
18 |
Verses by a Lady, to the Memory of the best of
Parents |
21 |
The Captive |
28 |
The Vision, as versified from the Preceptor, vide
p. 15 |
31 |
A Wish |
36 |
Extempore on reading the above |
38 |
Extempore on receiving the Lady’s proposals
for publishing |
39 |
An Elegy on the death of a young Lady who died
thro’ unskillful treatment, written by the sea-side 1789 |
40 |
Verses written by a Lady on her Son’s receiving
a wound from a Pistol which he had in his pocket |
43 |
On a first-born Infant |
45 |
To the Memory of the best of Brothers, once Captain
of the Beaver’s Prize, lost off St. Lucia October 11, 1780 |
47 |
A Ballad |
51 |
Verses on the absence of a favourite young Gentleman |
53 |
Verses on the departure of a Lady from her Friend,
to the Authoress |
54 |
The dying Prostitute |
60 |
The Dream |
63 |
Verses by a young Lady a few Days before her Death |
64 |
Extempore on receiving a Letter of Raillery on
an intended Journey |
66 |
On the word Love |
70 |
Hope, from Strephon to Delia |
ib. |
The Answer, from Delia to Strephon |
71 |
To a Friend |
72 |
A Paraphrase on the 2d Chapter of St. Matthew |
77 |
Extempore on being desired to write some Verses
on a Friend’s birth-day |
82 |
An Elegiac Address to an empty purse |
85 |
To Miss B----------y |
91 |
Ænigma 1st, |
93 |
Ænigma 2d, |
ib. |
Ænigma 3d, |
ib. |
Ænigma 4th, |
94 |
Ænigma 5th, |
ib. |
Ænigma 6th, |
ib. |
Ænigma 7th, |
95 |
Ænigma 8th, |
ib. |
Ænigma 9th, |
ib. |
Ænigma 10th, |
96 |
Ænigma 11th, |
ib. |
An Apology for Vagrants from a Country Justice |
97 |
Protection of the Poor |
98 |
Continuation of the fame |
99 |
A Sonnet |
102 |
Another |
103 |
To Care |
104 |
Verses on the Death of Capt. Cook, inscribed to
Miss Seward |
106 |
The faithful Negroe, an Elegiac Fragment |
109 |
Anna, an Elegiac Character |
113 |
Monody to the Memory of a young Lady, (from Mr.
Dodfley’s Collection)by Mr. Shaw |
116 |
Lines addressed to a beautiful young Woman who
made her first Appearance on the Stage in the Character of Louisa
Dudley in the West Indian |
116 |
The Day of Judgment, an Ode, attempted in English
Sapphick |
132 |
Launching into Eternity |
135 |
A Moral Thought |
136 |
To Myrtillis. The New-year’s offering |
138 |
The Rake |
142 |
Life, and Ode |
144 |
An Epitaph |
147 |
The Ignorance of Man |
148 |
Liberty, an Elegy, feign’d to be written from
the happy Vale of Ambara |
151 |
The Tears of Old May Day |
156 |
An original Poem, written in the ruins of an ancient
Abbey |
162 |
November, an Elegy |
166 |
A Song |
173 |
The Complaint, an Elegy |
174 |
The Honest Lawyer |
179 |
Knowledge, an Ode |
180 |
The Wanderer |
192 |
the Enthusiast, an Ode |
200 |
Expostulation |
206 |
Lines on reading an account of a Friend’s
Death in the News Paper |
215 |
On the Death of Cornet B. |
217 |
On a Goldfinch starved to Death in his Cage |
219 |
The Furies, a Fable |
220 |
Life, an Ode |
224 |
Verses addressed to a Lady on her Marriage |
226 |
A Tale of Chlorinda |
229 |
An Ode to Ambition |
235 |
Another to Contentment |
238 |
