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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 32

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Author

Hart, Mary Kerr.

Title

Heath blossoms: or, poems written in obscurity and seclusion. With a memoir of the author.

Imprint

Ballingdon : printed by W. Hill and sold by Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster Row ; Deck, Shalders, Hunt and Piper, Ipswich ; Deck, Bury ; Hardacre, Hadleigh ; Loder, Woodbridge ; and Smith, Edinburgh. n.d. [1830?].

Physical description

8vo (219mm), 144p. Frontispiece printed in brown on glazed paper. With a list of subscribers. Original boards, cloth spine, paper label.

Call number

WPRP 32.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 552; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 147; CtY,ICN,IU in NUC.

Notes

Includes Dedication, Introduction, Memoir of the Author, and List of Subscribers.

Epigraph

Epigraph, source not listed:

When Earth lies parch’d by solar pow’r,
How welcome is cool Ev’ning’s hour;
As welcome, when to grief is given
Compassion’s tear &endash; the dew of Heav’n.

Contents

SKETCH	29
Lavenham Church	37
Early Youth	39
School Friendship	41
Lines in my Prayer Book	43
The Suckling	44
Compassion	47
Enigma	48
The Finished Coxcomb	49
The Halcyon Nest	52
Hedge Blossoms	54
On Visiting Brenteleigh Hall	57
To the Lady who Educated Me	60
The Tear of Gratitude	62
A Walk to Cornard	64
A Definition	66
The Blackbird’s Note	67
To the Moon	69
The Suicide’s Grave	70
To ---------	72
Written in Illness, and a prospect of Death	73
Oh! happy, ‘ere surrendered quite	75
Byron! Where is He!	76
The Vine	77
The Tear on a Widow’s Cheek	79
The Dimmed Star	80
TO ---------	82
It is Well!	84
Music	86
Written during my Son’s Illness	87
La Feuille	88
The Translation	89
It came like the Music, &c.	90
The Hearts-ease	91
Twilight	93
To Miss Bird	95
To a Coxcomb	96
To a Person, &c. *c.	98
The Tear	99
Enigma	100
Sir Scythe	101
Enigma	104
To a Ruin	105
Lines on a Lock of Miss Byron’s Hair	106
Answer to a Letter	108
To the diminutive Mademoiselle De M------	109
Acrostic	110
Enigme	111
To W.M., Esq.	112
To the Head of a Noble Family	115
To ---------	116
Enigme	117
To an Enemy	118
To my Pillow	121
The Miller’s Boy	123
Lines on James Reed, Esq., of Ipswich	126
Years----years ago, a sad farewell	128



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 32

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 32