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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 59

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Author

Opie, Amelia (nee Alderson, 1769-1853).

Title

Lays for the dead.

Imprint

London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, Paternoster Row, 1834.

Physical description

12mo (174mm), viii,144p.

Engraved frontispiece. Original grey boards, uncut, spine worn, front cover loose.

Call number

WPRP 59.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 580; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 248.

Notes

Includes Preface.
Contains 'On the death of Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta'. Amelia Opie (1769-1853), novelist and poet.

Illustration with caption from the author:

"Still on!" cried the Voice, and surrounding his Altar,
Trichinopoly’s sons hail’d the labour of love.

Epigraph

none

Contents

Dirge on the death of Capt. C.W. Thompson	1
Lines addressed to a departed friend	7
To the Spirit of -----	11
Lines on the death of two brothers	12
On the anniversary of the birth-day of Ollyett Woodhouse	16
Stanzas on the death of the same	19
On the anniversary of a funeral, 1832	22
In memory of my mother	26
On the funeral of ---------	29
In memory of a dear young friend	32
Lines supposed to be addressed by a Brazilian to the messenger bird	34
The shipwreck	37
A lament	40
On the sudden death of a beautiful child	43
Lines on the death of an aged friend	45
On the death of a Lady	47
On the death of Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta	50
On the death of a bride	55
Epitaph on an amiable individual in humble life	58
Lines written in an album after the death of its owner	59
On the Christmas of 1830	63
To ------ on the death of her mother	67
Address to a dying friend	69
Epitaph on a mother and daughter	72
Tributary lines, part the first	74
----------------- part the second	75
On the death of a near relation	78
On the same	79
On the death of a child	80
On seeing the statue of Dr. Alderson, of Hull	82
The parent’s chant of thanksgiving	84
In memory of -----	87
Remembrance	90
To a departed friend	91
On the portraits of deceased relatives and friends which hang around me;--
Introductory lines	93
Portrait the first	95
Portrait the second	97
Portrait the third	99
Portrait the fourth	101
Portrait the fifth	103
Portrait the sixth	105
On a luminous sea	107
The last letter	111
On Cuvier	115
In memory of the Viscount G---y	117
On a dear friend, lately deceased	119
Sketches of St. Michael’s Mount;--
The Argument	123
Sketch the first	125
Sketch the second	131
Sketch the third	133
Sketch the fourth	136
The skeleton	139



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 59

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 59