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Author |
Fry, Caroline, 1787-1846 |
Title |
Serious poetry. With a supplement, containing a selection of pieces from the Assistant of Education, by the same author. By Caroline Fry, author of Death and Other Poems; A Poetical Catechism for the Use of Young Persons &c. |
Imprint |
London: Printed for Baker and Fletcher, 1826. Third edition. |
Call number |
WPRP 293 |
Notes |
Advertisement to the third edition. Preface to the first edtion. |
Epigraph |
None. |
Online copies |
Digital copy and transcription at UC Davis
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Contents |
Evening | 1 |
To a Friend, who expressed a fear that the Bible was a sealed Book to her | 5 |
The Lily | 8 |
On the Love of God | 12 |
Lines written under a Sketch of Oare Church | 21 |
The Gale | 25 |
The Dawn | 28 |
Lines written on hearing it said, we ought not to pray for our Saviour's Second Coming upon Earth | 30 |
On hearing the Song of a Bird one cold Sabbath Evening in February | 35 |
To a Friend who complained that she had not a Home | 37 |
The Setting Sun | 39 |
Midnight Thoughts | 42 |
The Wild Flower | 46 |
When shall I fly away, and be at rest? | 50 |
The Sabbath | 52 |
Poll. Peg, Leicestershire: a Sketch | 57 |
Faith | 63 |
Patience | 66 |
On parting from a Friend | 74 |
Lines written in time of Sickness, on hearing it asked if I was resigned to die | 78 |
The Calm | 82 |
To a Friend, on taking leave of Oare | 85 |
On being asked the necessity of Prayer to those who believe in the Immutability of the Divine Decrees | 88 |
From the Thirty-sixth Chapter of Ezekiel | 94 |
Reflections on the Close of the Year, December 31st, 1821; being also my Birth-Day | 97 |
Humility | 102 |
To a Friend | 107 |
The Harp of Judah | 110 |
Night | 112 |
On parting from a Friend, under particular Circumstances | 114 |
The Complaint | 119 |
The Consolation | 123 |
To an absent Friend, who complained of being forgotten | 127 |
The Rejected Prayer | 129 |
The Winter Moon | 132 |
The Barren Rock | 136 |
The Anchor | 141 |
A Thought on Beachy-Head | 143 |
A Borrowed Thought | 145 |
The Night-blowing Cerus | 149 |
Easter Thoughts | 152 |
The Vine-branch | 157 |
The Sea-bird | 159 |
A Hymn in Sickness | 162 |
The Violet | 165 |
The Twin Roses | 168 |
The Mediator | 171 |
On being asked to paint a Flower in the Winter | 175 |
Reply to the above, with a Forget-me-not | 177 |
On hearing it said, there is no Satisfactory Happiness on Earth | 180 |
In Answer to a Remark | 186 |
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