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Author

Temple, Laura Sophia (1763-after 1838).

Title

The Siege of Zaragoza, and other poems.

Imprint

London : William Miller, 1812.

Physical description

8. [6],150,[2]p. Half title. Errata. Marbled boards, rebacked.

Call number

WPRP 77

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 347; Jackson, Annals of English Verse, p. 364; CtY in NUC.

Notes

She was the daughter of lieutenant-colonel Richard Temple and his wife Francis. She married Samuel B. Sweetman who went bankrupt in about 1817.

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Contents

Introductory Lines	3
The Siege of Zaragoza	7
Youth and Age	23
An Evening Ode	28
The Joys of Faith	31
The Feast of Glenullin	39
The Interrogation	47
The Judgment Day	49
The Soldier's Grave	52
The Years to Come	57
Somebody	60
Solitude	63
Fair Rosalie	65
Memory, Hope, and Despondency	70
The Sick Man's Counsel to Youth	73
The Rose of Love	77
The Wish	79
The British Stripling's War-Song	81
The Warrior's Return from Battle	83
Woman's Love	86
The Fall of Babylon	90
The Tale of my Heart	95
The Days of Chivalry	98
The Death of the Youthful	103
The Death of the Aged	105
The Withered Rose	107
Song	109
The Orphan's Tale	111
The Haunted Manor-House	118
The Contrast	123
The Victory	124
Despondency and Resignation	127
Song of Gladness	130
Reflection	132
Beauty's Grave	136
Time - an Ode	138
Reason and Vanity	142
The Vision	116