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Author |
Browne, Mary Ann, 1812-1844. |
Title |
Ada, and other poems. |
Imprint |
London : Longman, Hatchard, and W. Benning, 1828. |
Physical description |
12. iv,[2],ii,277,[3]p. Errata. Contemporary diced
calf. |
Call number |
WPRP 9. |
Citation |
Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 42. |
Notes
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Mary Ann Browne was a sister of Felicia Dorothea Hemans. Mary Russell
Mitford said of her that 'of all poetesses, George Sand herself not excepted,
she seems to me to touch with the sweetest, the firmest, the most delicate
hand, the difficult chords of female passions.' |
Notes |
Includes Dedication. |
Epigraph |
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Is not the life of Woman all bound up
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In her affections? What hath she to do
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In this bleak world alone? It may be well
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For Man, in his triumphal course, to move
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Uncumbered by soft bonds, - but we were born
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For love and grief.
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MRS. HEMANS
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Contents |
DEDICATION |
iii |
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v |
ADA |
1 |
The Painter |
75 |
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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. |
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Sonnet, to Miss M. R. Mitford |
101 |
The Native Land |
103 |
Stanzas, suggested by reading "Death’s Doings" |
107 |
Woman’s Heart |
111 |
Ballad |
115 |
Stanzas, written in Moore’s "Irish Melodies" |
118 |
To Thomas Moore, Esq. |
121 |
Memory |
124 |
Flowers |
127 |
They are not there! |
132 |
To James Montgomery, Esq. |
135 |
My Home |
137 |
The Discovery Ship |
142 |
The Land of Love |
145 |
The Sky |
149 |
Ione |
155 |
My Rest is in the Grave |
152 |
The Happiest Time |
162 |
The Cross by the Way-side |
166 |
Canzonet |
169 |
Music |
171 |
The Sun |
175 |
Lady Edith |
178 |
The Fate of Genius |
182 |
The Home of Dreams |
186 |
The Breeze in the Desert |
190 |
The dying Minstrel |
194 |
Stanzas, written on the 1st of January, 1828 |
199 |
Lines written beneath a drawing of Heart’s
ease, in the Album of a Lady, who was personally unknown to the
Author |
203 |
The Poetess |
205 |
We’ve met again |
210 |
The Birth-day Blessing |
212 |
The Martyrs |
217 |
The Heart and Lyre |
222 |
Isabelle |
225 |
To the Memory of Elizabeth Smith, supposed to be
written by her Grave |
228 |
Stanzas |
223 |
The Foreboding |
235 |
"Meet me To-Morrow!" |
238 |
The Recluse |
242 |
Stanzas, written in a Friend’s Album |
247 |
The Actress |
249 |
Stanzas, written on the Day the Author completed
her Fifteenth Year, Sept. 24th, 1827 |
254 |
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SACRED PIECES. |
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Ecce Homo |
259 |
The Star over the Water |
263 |
"Let Us Pray!" |
266 |
Signs |
271 |
"Thy Will be Done" |
275 |
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