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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 286

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Author

Robinson, Mary Elizabeth (1775-1818).

Title

The Wild Wreath. Dedicated (by Permission) to H.R.H. the Duchess of York.

Imprint

London: Printed for Richard Phillips, 1804.

Physical description

viii, 228pp., 8vo. Engraved title with vignette, and engraved vignettes throughout, all signed "Mrs. B. Tarleton del." (presumably the wife of the notorious officer); title very slightly spotted. Contemporary half calf; upper joint partly cracked, but sound.

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 73, no. 18.

Call number

WPRP 286.

Notes

Includes dedication. First edition of this compilation, by Mary, "Perdita" Robinson's daughter, and containing as many of Mary Robinson's verses as those of all other authors together. But the others are a distinguished lot, and include, apart from a couple of poems by the editor herself, Joanna Baillie, Anna Seward, Coleridge, Southey, Monk Lewis, and an otherwise unknown "Susan."

Epigraph

none

Contents

The Foster Child, a Tale, by Mrs. Robinson	4
Edwin and Ellen, a Tale—Susan	31
The Lady of the Black Tower—Mrs. Robinson	35
Lines addressed to Earl Moira	55
To Laura—by the late Robert Merry, Esq.	58
Lines written in Hampton Church-yard — Susan	62
The Felon—by M.G. Lewis, Esq	65
Ingratitude—by Mrs. Robinson	68
The Wint'ry Day—Idem	71
To an Infant Sleeping—Idem	75
To the Aspin Tree—Idem	77
The Old Shepherd and the Squire—Idem	81
The Miser—Idem	90
The Gamester—Idem	93
A London Summer Morning—Idem	97
The Fisherman—Idem	100
The Poet's Garret—Idem	103
The Sorrows of memory—Idem	107
Sonnet to Liberty—Idem	113
Lines to Spring—Idem	114
Lines—Susan	118
To a Friend, with some Painted Flowers	123
Excess—by M.G. Lewis, Esq. M.P.	128
A War Poem—by Robert Southey, Esq	128
An Evening Meditation by the Side of a River—Susan	131
Lines written on the 9th of September—Anon	135
The Dream—Dr. Darwin	137
Lines sent to a Lady, with an Almanack in a Silver Case.—Hon. and Rev. T.J. Twisleton	139
The Mad Monk—S.T. Coleridge, Esq.	142
To a False Friend—Susan	145
The Twilight Hour	147
A Receipt for Modern Love	149
Lesbia and her Lover	151
Inscribed to a once dear Friend	153
Impromptu—Maria	154
The Sailor's Departure—M.E.R.	155
The Mince Pye	158
Winkfield Plain	160
Lines sent to the lovely and accomplished Miss S—, M.G. Lewis	163
Papa's Nose	164
To Love—Captain Charles James	165
The Lover—Idem	167
Lines by the Hon. and REv. T.J. Twisleton	170
To a Friend—M.E.R.	172
To William Moody, Esq	174
Prologue—by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe	178
Epilogue to the Theatrical Representation at Strawberry Hill—Johanna Baillie	181
Morning	187
Winter	192
To Bacchus	194
A Kiss	199
Oberon to Titania	205
Titania's Answer to Oberon	208
To Georgiana, on the Morning of her Birth-day	211
Harvest Home—Mrs. Robinson	219
Sonnet—Robert Merry Esq	223
Sonnet, on reading a description of Pope's Gardens, at Twickenham—Miss Seward	227
Il Amanti Timido—Idem	227



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Women Poets of the Romantic Period Individual Item Contents: WPRP 286

Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 286