Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 6

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Author

Beverley, Charlotte.

Title

Poems on miscellaneous subjects, composed and selected by Charlotte Beverley.

Imprint

Hull, 1792. Printed for E. Foster, Bookseller, and sold by C. Dilly, Poultry, London : J. Todd ; and Wilson, Spence and Mawman, York. [1792].

Physical description

8.[3-7],8-247,[15]p. Engraved frontispiece, vignette title page. With a list of subscribers. Contemporary half calf, red label.

Notes

Contains 'Verses on the death of Captain Cook, inscribed to Miss Seward'. Charlotte Beverley (fl.1792). "The light poems are generally more successful than the serious ones, which are inert and stylized. Several are concerned with the poor, destitute and outcast - for example "The Dying Prostitute." See Janet Todd, A Dictionary of British and American Writers 1660-1800, p. 49.

Call number

WPRP 6.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 177.

Notes

Includes List of Subscribers.

Epigraph

Two illustrations with captions from the author:

Take hence the wretch &endash; and to the ship convey,
But tell the negro I require his stay!

Close where it stop’d they enter and adore.

Contents

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 1^st,	93
Ænigma 2d,	ib.
Ænigma 3d,	ib.
Ænigma 4^th,	94
Ænigma 5^th,	ib.
Ænigma 6^th,	ib.
Ænigma 7^th,	95
Ænigma 8^th,	ib.
Ænigma 9^th,	ib.
Ænigma 10^th,	96
Ænigma 11^th,	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



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 6

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 6