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Author |
Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853 |
Title |
POEMS by Mrs. Opie. [Amelia] |
Imprint |
London: Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Paternoster-Row, By Wilks and Taylor, Chancery Lane. 1802. |
Physical description |
iv, 192 p. front. 17 cm |
Citation |
Jackson,
Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 247. |
Call number |
WPRP 254 |
Notes |
Plate with tissue. |
Epigraph |
"—some there are, ere spent my vital days,
Within whose breasts my tomb I wish to raise;
Loved in my life, lamented in my end,
Their praise would crown me, as the precepts mend."—
R. West
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Contents |
Sonnet to Winter | 1 |
The Dying Daughter to her Mother | 3 |
Allen Brooke of Windermere | 11 |
The Maid of Corinth to her Lover | 15 |
Song. Bring the song, and join them in chorus | 47 |
The Mourner | 49 |
Another on the same subject | 51 |
Elegiac Song | 55 |
To the Glow-worm | 58 |
The Negro Boy's Tale | 61 |
Lines written at Norwich on the first News of Peace | 81 |
Lines for the Album at Cossey, the Seat of Sir William Jerningham, Bart. | 87 |
Song to Laura | 96 |
Song of a Hindustàní Girl | 99 |
Song. Yes, Mary Anne | 104 |
Song. A youth for Jane with ardour sighed | 105 |
Mad-Song | 107 |
Song. I once rejoiced, sweet Evening Gale | 110 |
The Voice of Him I love | 112 |
The Complaint | 115 |
Address of a Felon to his Child on the Morning of his Execution. Respectfully inscribed to the Philanthropic Society | 121 |
The Virgin's first Love | 127 |
Stanzas written under Æolus's Harp | 131 |
Consumption | 135 |
Epigram | 139 |
Lines addressed to Mr. Biggs | 140 |
Fatherless Fanny, a Ballad | 141 |
The Despairing Wanderer | 144 |
The Orphan Boy's Tale | 149 |
Symptoms of Love | 152 |
Song. Fond dream of love | 157 |
Song. Go, youth beyond | 159 |
Sonnet | 161 |
Song. I know you false | 163 |
Lines respectfully inscribed to the Society for the Relief of Persons imprisoned for Small Debts | 165 |
To Twilight | 171 |
Epistle to a Friend, on New-Year's Day—1802 | 176 |
On reading, since the Duke of Bedford's Death, Mr. Burke's Letter reflecting on his Grace | 190 |
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