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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 92

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Author

Jewsbury, Maria Jane. afterwards Fletcher. (1800-1833).

Title

Lays of leisure hours.

Imprint

London : J. Hatchard and Son, 1829.

Physical description

pp.xii 189 12mo. Contemporary full calf, black label.

Call number

WPRP 92.

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 174.

Notes

This is the third of only four titles by Jewsbury, elder sister of the better-known Manchester novelist Geraldine Jewsbury, and a particular friend of the Wordsworths. Her first work, Phantasmagoria (1825) was dedicated to Wordsworth; he thought very highly of her and in 1829 addressed his poem Liberty to her in return. In 1832 Jewsbury married a clergyman, who was in the service of the East India Company, and sailed for Bombay where she died from cholera in 1833.

Citation:

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 174.

Notes

Includes Dedication. This is the third of only four titles by Jewsbury.

Epigraph

So hath my spirit passed!
As a wild bird amidst the foliage turns
That which within him triumphs, beats, or burns,: Into a fleeting lay.
Mrs. Hemans.

Contents

Invocation to the Spirit of Poesy	1
The First Sacrifice	5
POETICAL PORTRAITS.----I. II. III. IV. V.	16
The Glory of Heights	24
Passing Away	33
Alexander the Great, Weeping	36
Dreams of Heaven	39
Address to Sleep	47
The Aspen Leaf	50
King Herod’s Oath	54
Love’s Likeness	58
To an Absent One	64
Earth and Heaven	67
Faded Flowers	72
World, Hence with thy Baubles	76
Christ Crowned	78
Youth in Age	82
Age in Youth	85
Hamlet on his Bier	87
The Exile’s Heart	90
Stanzas	93
To a Dying Friend	95
To the Same	98
To a Village Church	101
The Bitterness of Death	105
The Bitterness of Death Past	108
I Love Thee Rose	111
The Presence of Evil	114
I am come back to my Bower	116
The Syren World	119
The Altered Heart	121
The Roving Bee	125
The Pearl of Price	128
A Queen’s Grief	130
Where Dwelleth Good?	133
Home! Home!	135
Fancy and Philosophy	138
Adieu! Adieu!	142
The Happy Spirit	144
A Remembered Scene	147
A Maiden’s Fantasy	150
A Summer Eve’s Vision	152
There is None like unto Thee	155
The Wounded Spirit	157
The Resting Place	160
O that I had Wings!	163
The Returning Wanderer	166
They Shall Revive as the Corn	170
Now mine Eye seeth Thee	173
The Dove of the Valley	175
Hymn for a Child	177
To My Own Heart	180
The Hour of Account	186



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 92

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 92