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Author

Yearsley, Ann (1756-1806)

Title

Poems, on Several Occasions, by Ann Yearsley, a Milkwoman of Bristol

Imprint

London, T. Cadell, 1785

Call number

WPRP 371

Physical Description

xxx, 127 p. 26 cm

Citation

Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 383.

Notes

"A prefatory letter to Mrs. Montagu" by Hannah More: p. iii-xii; List of subscribers: p. xiii-xxvii.

Epigraph

none

Contents

NIGHT. TO STELLA	1
THOUGHTS ON THE AUTHOR’S OWN DEATH	17
TO A FRIEND, ON VALENTINE’S DAY	23
ANOTHER VALENTINE, TO ANOTHER PERSON	27
A FRAGMENT	37
ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF A FRIEND	43
TO MR. R---, ON HIS BENEVOLENT SCHEME FOR RESCUING POOR CHILDREN FROM VICE AND MISERY, BY PROMOTING SUNDAY SCHOOLS	47
TO MRS. M---S	61
TO STELLA; ON A VISIT TO MRS. MONTAGU	65
TO THE SAME; ON HER ACCUSING THE AUTHOR OF FLATTERY, AND ASCRIBING TO THE CREATURE THAT PRAISE WHICH IS ONLY DUE TO THE CREATOR	71
SOLILOQUY	75
ADDRESS TO FRIENDSHIP	79
TO THE HONOURABLE H---E W---E, ON READING THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO	87
TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS FOWAGER OF PORTLAND	97
ON MRS. MONTAGU	101
CLIFTON HILL	107