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A Book of Women’s Verse

A Book of Women’s Verse

by Sir John Collings Squire

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Editor
Squire, John Collings, Sir, 1884-1958
Title
A book of women's verse
Original Publication
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.
Credits
Aaron Adrignola, Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- Women authors
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 74619
Release Date
October 21, 2024
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.A Book of Women’s Verse
  2. 2.PREFACE — FOOTNOTES
  3. 3.ANNE ASKEWE — 1. The Balade whych Anne Askewe made and sange when she was in Newgate
  4. 4.QUEEN ELIZABETH — 2. On Her Enemies — 3. Answer to a Popish Priest, Giving Her Opinion on the Corporeal Presence
  5. 5.LADY ELIZABETH CAREW — 4. Chorus from ‘Mariam’
  6. 6.MARY OXLIE OF MORPET — 5. To William Drummond of Hawthornden
  7. 7.LADY MARY WROTH — 6. Song
  8. 8.ANNE BRADSTREET — 7. Dedication: ‘To My Dear Children’ — 8. Epitaph for Queen Elizabeth
  9. 9.MARGARET, DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE — 9. Love and Poetry
  10. 10.ANONYMOUS — 10. To My Husband
  11. 11.ANN COLLINS — 11. Song — 12. The Soul’s Home
  12. 12.KATHERINE PHILIPS ( ORINDA ) — 13. To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship — 14. A Revery — 15. Orinda to Lucasia — 16. An Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage — 17. Orinda upon Little Hector Philips
  13. 13.ANNE, MARCHIONESS OF WHARTON — 18. On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe (Made at that Time) — 19. A Song
  14. 14.APHRA BEHN — 20. Song — 21. Song (from ‘Lycidus’) — 22. Song — 23. Song — 24. Song
  15. 15.‘EPHELIA’ — 25. Love’s First Approach — 26. Song — 27. To one that asked me why I loved J. G. — 28. Mocked in Anger — 29. Fortune Mistaken — 30. To Phylocles, inviting him to Friendship — 31. My Fate
  16. 16.MARY MOLLINEUX — 32. On the Sight of a Skull — 33. To Her Lord
  17. 17.ANNE KILLIGREW — 34. On a Picture painted by Herself, representing Two Nymphs of Diana — 35. Upon the Saying that My Verses were made by Another — 36. Epitaph on Herself
  18. 18.MRS. TAYLOR — 37. Song
  19. 19.MARY, LADY CHUDLEIGH — 38. Solitude — 39. Song
  20. 20.ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA — 40. The Soldier’s Death — 41. The Sensual Man — 42. A Nocturnal Reverie — 43. A Wish for Her Retreat — 44. Adam Pos’d — 45. The Wit and the Beau — 46. The Critick and the Writer of Fables — 47. To Death
  21. 21.LADY GRISEL BAILLIE — 48. Werena my Heart’s licht — 49. The Ewe-Buchtin’s Bonnie
  22. 22.HON. MARY MONK — 50. On a Favourite Dog — 51. Epitaph on a Gallant Lady — 52. Verses, written on her Death-bed at Bath to her Husband in London
  23. 23.ELIZABETH (SINGER) ROWE — 53. From Her Elegy on Her Husband, who died Young — 54. To a Friend who Persuades me to Leave the Muse
  24. 24.CATHARINE COCKBURN — 55. Song—The Vain Advice
  25. 25.LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU — 56. Verses addressed to the Imitator [2] of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace — FOOTNOTES — 57. An Answer to a Love-Letter — 58. In Answer to a Lady Who Advised Retirement
  26. 26.FANNY GREVILLE — 59. Prayer for Indifference
  27. 27.LAETITIA PILKINGTON — 60. Written on her Death-Bed
  28. 28.ALISON COCKBURN — 61. The Flowers of the Forest
  29. 29.MARY MASTERS — 62. To One who Questioned her being the Author of some Verses — 63. Answer to a Panegyrick by one who supposed her handsome
  30. 30.JUDITH MADAN — 64. Written in her brother’s Coke upon Littleton
  31. 31.ELIZABETH CARTER — 65. Epitaph on an Infant
  32. 32.MARY LEAPOR — 66. Upon her Play being returned to Her Stained with Claret — 67. Hope (Where it may reasonably be cherished) — 68. Of Friendship
  33. 33.MARY JONES — 69. An Epistle to Lady Bowyer
  34. 34.JANE ELLIOT — 70. A Lament for Flodden
  35. 35.JENNY GRAHAME — 71. Wedlock
  36. 36.ISOBEL PAGAN — 72. Ca’ the Yowes
  37. 37.ANNE HUNTER — 73. My Mother Bids me Bind my Hair
  38. 38.ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD — 74. To a Lady with Some Flowers — 75. Life
  39. 39.FRANCES BROOKE — 76. Song
  40. 40.SUSANNA BLAMIRE — 77. Song
  41. 41.CHARLOTTE SMITH — 78. Sonnet Written at the Close of Spring
  42. 42.LADY ANNE (LINDSAY) BARNARD — 79. Auld Robin Gray
  43. 43.HENRIETTA, LADY O’NEILL — 80. On Seeing Her Two Sons at Play
  44. 44.JOANNA BAILLIE — 81. A Mother to Her Waking Infant — 82. The Kitten — 83. Song — 84. The Outlaw
  45. 45.CATHERINE M. FANSHAWE — 85. A Riddle on the Letter H
  46. 46.MARY LAMB — 86. A Child
  47. 47.CAROLINE, LADY NAIRNE — 87. The Land o’ the Leal — 88. The Auld House — 89. Caller Herrin’ — FOOTNOTES — 90. Heavenward
  48. 48.HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS — 91. Sonnet to Twilight — 92. Sonnet to Hope
  49. 49.ANNE M’VICAR GRANT OF LAGGAN — 93. Postscript
  50. 50.AMELIA OPIE — 94. A Lament
  51. 51.CAROLINE SOUTHEY — 95. To Death
  52. 52.EMMA (HART) WILLARD — 96. Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep
  53. 53.FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS — 97. Night-Blowing Flowers — 98. Casabianca — 99. A Dirge
  54. 54.SARA COLERIDGE — 100. O Sleep, my Babe
  55. 55.ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING — 101. To George Sand. I. A Desire — 102. II. A Recognition — Sonnets from the Portuguese — 103. i — 104. iii — 105. vi — 106. xxii — 107. xxviii — 108. xliii — 109. A Musical Instrument — 110. The Cry of the Children — 111. To Flush, My Dog — 112. The Deserted Garden — 113. Grief
  56. 56.HELEN SELINA, LADY DUFFERIN — 114. Lament of the Irish Emigrant
  57. 57.THE HON. CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH NORTON — 115. I Do Not Love Thee
  58. 58.CHARLOTTE BRONTË — 116. He Saw My Heart’s Woe — 117. Evening Solace — 118. Speak of the North!
  59. 59.EMILY BRONTË — 119. Remembrance — 120. The Visionary — 121. Fall, Leaves, Fall — 122. The Prisoner — 123. Stanzas to [Branwell Brontë?] — 124. Often Rebuked — 125. Last Lines
  60. 60.JULIA WARD HOWE — 126. Battle-Hymn of the Republic — 127. Our Orders
  61. 61.ANNE BRONTË — 128. If This Be All — 129. In Memory of a Happy Day in February
  62. 62.PHOEBE CARY — 130. One Sweetly Solemn Thought
  63. 63.CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — 131. Song — 132. Sonnet — 133. Echo — 134. A Soul — 135. Good Friday — 136. Twice — 137. Rest — 138. Up-hill — 139. Remember — 140. Bride-Song (From ‘The Prince’s Progress’) — 141. A Birthday — 142. Amor Mundi — 143. In Progress — 144. What would I give!
  64. 64.JEAN INGELOW — 145. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571)
  65. 65.LADY CURRIE (VIOLET FANE) — 146. Forbidden Love
  66. 66.THE HON. EMILY LAWLESS — 147. Fontenoy (1745)
  67. 67.FANNY PARNELL — 148. After Death
  68. 68.MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE — 149. A Moment — 150. Gone — 151. Unwelcome
  69. 69.AMY LEVY — 152. A London Plane-Tree — 153. In September — 154. In the Nower — 155. Cambridge in the Long — 156. New Love, New Life — 157. London Poets
  70. 70.DORA SIGERSON SHORTER — 158. Sixteen Dead Men — 159. Ireland
  71. 71.ALICE MEYNELL — 160. In Manchester Square (In memoriam T. H.) — 161. Christ in the Universe — 162. Renouncement — 163. A Letter from a Girl to Her own Old Age — 164. Chimes
  72. 72.MARGARET L. WOODS — 165. To the Forgotten Dead — 166. Genius Loci — 167. A Ballade of the Night
  73. 73.ROSE TERRY COOKE — 168. Arachne
  74. 74.VIOLET JACOB — 169. Tam i’ the Kirk
  75. 75.ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY — 170. The Snowdrop
  76. 76.MOIRA O’NEILL — 171. The Rachray Man — 172. The Grand Match
  77. 77.FRANCES CORNFORD — 173. Autumn Evening — 174. Autumn Morning at Cambridge — 175. The Watch
  78. 78.EVA GORE-BOOTH — 176. The Little Waves of Breffny
  79. 79.KATHARINE TYNAN HINKSON — 177. Sheep and Lambs
  80. 80.ROSE MACAULAY — 178. The Devourers
  81. 81.SYLVIA LYND — 179. Hunting Song
  82. 82.INDEX OF AUTHORS
  83. 83.INDEX OF FIRST LINES

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