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Individual Item Contents: WPRP 64

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Author

Richardson, Caroline E. (1777-1853).

Title

Poems. By Mrs. G. G. Richardson.

Imprint

Edinburgh : published by Cadell and Co., Edinburgh ; and Simpkin, Marshall and Co., and William Crofts, London. 1828.

Physical description

12mo in 6s (190mm), iv,iii-vi,227,[1]p. Original half red morocco, marbled boards.

Call number

WPRP 64.

Citation

Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 539; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 268.

Bio

Caroline E. Richardson, poet and novelist. In the preface the author states that 1700 copies were subscribed for. The volume contains 'Manfred; and Allegorical Legend', 'Lines on reading Sir John Malcolm's poem entitled "Persia" ', and Tributary lines, on reading "The Course of Time", by the late Robert Pollock'.

Notes

Includes Preface.

Epigraph

That people live and die, I knew: An hour ago as well as you.
PRIOR.

Contents

Stanzas--"Flow on my verse"	3
The Vision	6
Stanzas--"I call not on thy gentle shade"	13
Manfred; an Allegorical Legend	15
Lines, supposed to have been written by Queen Elizabeth, relating to circumstances during her residence at Hatfield	33
To the Author of, "Lines on the Loss of the Ship"	37
Sonnet--to Anacreon Moore	39
Lines to the Eolian Harp	40
To the Shade of a promising and most dear Relative	41
Epitaph, in St. Helier’s Church-yard, Jersey, to the memory of Mary Scott	43
Isabel	44
The little Angler	46
To a young and highly gifted professional Pianist	49
Sonnet--the Young Lovers	52
On a withered Flower	53
Sonnet--Night	54
Elegiac, on revisiting the Banks of the Esk, after an absence of many years	55
The Blind Twins	60
A Grandfather’s Dirge	62
Sonnet--the Swallow	64
Sonnet--"Through the long night"	65
To the Memory of P.L	66
St. Mary’s Kirk-yard, Selkirkshire	68
Scotch Song	70
The deserted Nest	71
A Mother’s Dirge--No. I.	73
The Outcast	75
Free Translations of an Ancient Lapland Song	80
The Sky-Lark	82
The Widow’s Son, a Fragment	83
A Mother’s Dirge--No. II	91
Rosalind, a Fragment	93
Sonnet	96
The Misanthrope	97
The Convict Prison Lamp	100
To Mr. W------- W------, who has made the Auther (sic) some excellent Pens	105
Kishen Kower, a Fragment	109
Song, to an Italian Air	113
A Funeral passing over newly fallen snow	115
To --------. "O throw that mournful lyre away!"	116
Lines sent to a Young Lady, with a Bunch of Lilies of the Valley	119
Written anonymously in a Lady’s Scrap book	120
Lines on revisiting F--------	121
Sonnet, translated from Boileau	124
Sonnet	125
A part of the Dithyrambic of Delille "Sur l’immortaltie d’l’ame"	126
A Trait of Albuera	130
"Hush! hush!"	132
The Dove	133
The ancient Spinster Beauty; a Portrait	136
Written in N------- H--------’s Scrap Book	141
The Lost Child	143
Reflections at Sea	147
Fragment to the Memory of P.C.S	148
Lorely; the Daughter of the Rhine	152
In memory of Emma -------	157
Lady Knocklofty and her Party, discovering the Abbey of Moycullen	161
To the beloved Parents; on the death of an Infant of thirteen months	165
Lines, on reading Sir John Malcolm’s Poem entitled "Persia"	167
Song	170
A Summer Sunday	171
Song-- "Where wert my sweet Ameerin?"	173
On the fear of Death	175
Tributary Lines, on reading "The Course of Time," by the late Robert Pollock, A.M.	190
The Sabbath Testimony	196
The Father of the Faithful	199
The Plain of Rephidim	203
Elegy, occasioned by the lamented death of George Walter Maxwell, of Carruchan, Esq.	205
NOTES	211

Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 64

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 64