Author |
Dacre, Charlotte, b.1782. |
Title |
Hours of solitude. A collection of original poems, now
first published. |
Imprint |
London: printed by D.N. Shury, for Hughes and Ridgeway, 1805. |
Physical description |
Two volumes bound in one. 8vo. [6],136p; [2],140p.
Frontis. in vol. one. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked preserving
part of old spine. Inscribed on the dedication "Signed Charlotte Dacre,
Author of the 'Confessions of the Nun of St. Omer.' " |
Call number |
WPRP 24 |
Citation |
Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 287; Jackson, Romantic Poetry
by Women, p. 95. |
Note |
Charlotte Dacre, who also wrote under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda" was
a sensational novelist and poet ; one of her Gothic romances, Zofloya,
influenced Shelly's Zastrozzi, 1811. Hours of Solitude includes new poems,
together with some published in 1798. |
Citation: |
Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 287; Jackson, Romantic
Poetry by Women, p. 95. |
Notes |
Two vols. bound in one.Includes
Dedication and "To the Public." |
Epigraph |
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Ah! what is mirth but turbulence unholy,
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When to the charm compar’d of heav’nly melancholy?
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MILTON
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Online copies |
Digital copy and transcription at UC Davis:
Volume I
Volume II
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Contents |
No Contents page. Includes:
Vol. I.
THE TRIUMPH OF PLEASURE. (Written at Sixteen.) |
1 |
THE EXILE. Composed on the sea-shore, and founded
on the fate of an unfortunate Female born to better hopes. (Written
at Sixteen.) |
11 |
ELOQUENCE. Addressed to a gentleman who eloquently
maintained that Love, if analyzed, was Folly. (Written at Fifteen.) |
17 |
PASSION UNINSPIRED BY SENTIMENT. Addressed to him
who denied their existing together. |
19 |
To JOHN PENN, Esq. |
21 |
THE KISS. |
22 |
THE VANITY OF HOPE. |
24 |
TO HIM WHO SAYS HE LOVES. |
26 |
THE ANSWER, By George Skeene, Esq. as it appeared
in the Morning Herald. |
29 |
LOVE AND MADNESS. |
30 |
THE FOLLY OF LIFE. |
33 |
THE UNFAITHFUL LOVER. (Impromptu.) |
36 |
THE MOTHER TO HER DYING INFANT. |
39 |
THE MUSING MANIC. (Written at eighteen.) |
42 |
THE EMIGRANT. |
43 |
THE MOUNTAIN VIOLET. (Written at seventeen.) |
48 |
THE LOVER’S VISION. |
51 |
EXPERIENCE. (Written at eighteen.) |
54 |
THE VISIONS OF FANCY. (Written at sixteen). |
56 |
THE MURDERER. |
60 |
THE ORPHAN’S CURSE. |
65 |
THE SKELETON PRIEST; OR, THE MARRIAGE OF DEATH. |
67 |
JULIA’S MURDER; OR, THE SONG OF WOE. |
76 |
THE AIREAL CHORUS; OR, THE WARNING. |
79 |
DEATH AND THE LADY. In imitation of the old English
ballads. |
82 |
THE ELFIN KING; OR, THE SCOFFER PUNISHED. |
92 |
SIMILE. |
98 |
FRACAS BETWEEN THE DEITIES. Addressed to Mr. F--------,
an enthusiastic votary at the shrine of Bacchus. (Written at
sixteen.) |
99 |
LOGANS’ GRAVE. |
104 |
RUIN’D INNOCENCE, Written at seventeen, Upon
the same occasion as "THE EXILE." |
105 |
MOORISH COMBAT. |
108 |
THE MANIAC. |
113 |
THE POOR NEGRO SADI. |
117 |
THE DYING LOVER. Written for a friend, whose lover,
an amiable young man, died the martyr of a swift decline. |
123 |
THE SOVEREIGNTY OF LOVE. |
126 |
TO THE SHADE OF MARY ROBINSON. |
130 |
THE FEMALE PHILOSOPHER. |
134 |
Vol. II.
THE MOTHER To her Sleeping Infant. |
1 |
ALAS! FORGIVE ME. |
4 |
THE REPLY. |
7 |
TO --------- My Reason for being one Week absent
from her. |
9 |
TO HER I LOVE. |
11 |
SONG. The Metamorphosis. |
14 |
IN ANSWER. |
16 |
THE CONFESSION. |
18 |
LE VRAI SEUL EST AIMABLE. . |
.20 |
¿ L’OREILLER DE MA MAITRESSE. |
22 |
THE DOUBT. |
25 |
HOW CANST THOU DOUBT? |
27 |
THE MISTRESS To the Spirit of her Lover, Which,
in the phrenzy occasioned by his loss, she imagined to pursue
continually his footsteps. Attempted after the manner of Ossian. |
31 |
THE MISTRESS To the Spirit of the Lover. Versified. |
34 |
FOG. |
37 |
WILL-O’-WISP. |
39 |
MILDEW. |
41 |
WIND. |
43 |
FROST. |
45 |
THAW. |
47 |
THE GIANT’S BURIAL GROUND. |
49 |
ADDRESSED TO THE AUTHOR. In the Morning Herald,
By an unknown Hand. In Answer to her lines entitled "The Philosopher." |
51 |
WEYMOUTH. On being prevented by severe illness
from going thither. |
53 |
IL TRIONFO DEL AMOR. |
55 |
QUEEN MAB AND HER FAYS, Transforming themselves
into Flies. |
56 |
THE EVIL BEING. |
59 |
GRIMALKIN’S GHOST; OR, THE WATER SPIRITS.
In humble imitation of the soaring flights of some legendary
and exquisitely pathetic modern Bards. |
60 |
THE HUNTER OF THE ALPS. |
63 |
SONG OF MELANCHOLY. |
65 |
L’ABSENCE. |
68 |
THE APPARITION. |
70 |
TU ES BEAU COMME LE DESERT, AVEC TOUTES SES FLEURS
ET TOUTES SES BRISES. |
71 |
LASSO A ME! |
73 |
THE WARRIOR. |
75 |
WE CAN LOVE BUT ONCE. |
81 |
SPECIMEN OF THE FORMER TRANSLATION OF THE LASS
OF FAIR WONE. |
84 |
THE LASS OF FAIR WONE. From the German of B¸rger. |
86 |
APPENDIX.
SONNET. |
101 |
MEDITATION. |
102 |
INVOCATION TO SLEEP. . |
104 |
TO LAURA. |
105 |
MADNESS. |
107 |
MORNING. |
109 |
EVENING. A Descriptive Piece. |
111 |
INDIFFERENCE. |
114 |
WAR. |
116 |
PEACE. |
118 |
TO LOVE. |
120 |
TO LINDORF. . |
122 |
TO SYMPATHY. |
124 |
TO OBLIVION. |
126 |
TO PRUDENCE. |
128 |
THE POWER OF LOVE. |
130 |
EDMUND AND ANNA. A Legendary Tale. |
133 |
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