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Author

King, Harriet Rebecca.

Title

Poems.

Imprint

Salisbury : Printed and sold by Brodie and Dowding. Sold also by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, Paternoster-row, London. 1823.

Physical description

8vo (169mm), xii,62,[2]p. With a list of subscribers. Original boards, uncut.

Call number

WPRP 44.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 495; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 180; MN, INU in NUC.

Notes

Harriet Rebecca King suffered for many years from deafness.

Notes

Includes Preface and List of Subscribers.

Epigraph

none

Online copies

Contents

No Contents page. Includes:

The Consoling Influence of Religion in VariousTrials of Life	1
A Midnight Reflection in Sickness	31
On the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales	33
To the Memory of my Beloved and Lamented Sister Emily, Who expired in my Arms 16th April, 1818. Written a few hours after her decease	38
The Remembrance of Death	39
To a Friend	41
To a Sleeping Child	42
A Farewell	43
Written on the Blank Leaf of "The Pleasures of memory." The Gift of a Beloved Brother	45
An Address to my Beloved Parents, on the Anniversary of their Wedding Day	47
Absence. A Song	50
Written in the Porch of Gussage Church during a Heavy Storm	51
Impromptu Written on a Frozen Pane of Glass	51
Sonnet	52
To a Weeping Friend	53
Stanzas, Inscribed to Miss -------	54
A Morning Hymn for Christmas Day	56
The Defeat of Slander. A Fragment	57