The poetical works of Anna Seward, Vol. 2 [of 3]Front matterReading editionChapter navigation78 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTHE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;VERSES[1] WRITTEN IN DR DARWIN’S BOTANIC GARDEN, Near Lichfield, July, 1778.ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR JOSEPH SYKES, OF WEST-ELLA, AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN.CHARITY, PRIZE POEM AT BATH-EASTON; Containing a Paraphrase of the 13th Chap. of Corinthians.MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.ODE ON THE PYTHAGOREAN SYSTEM. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.INVOCATION OF THE COMIC MUSE. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.AMUSEMENTS OF WINTER. Written in 1779.BERMUDA, ADDRESSED TO DOCTOR TUCKER, A young Physician, Native of that Island.ELEGY ON CAPTAIN COOK.VERSES TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.ODE TO THE SUN. Published in May 1780.VERSES TO CAPTAIN ELIOTT, Written in the blank leaf of a manuscript Book, WHICH CONTAINED HIS POEMS.VERSES Inviting Mrs C—— to Tea on a public Fast-day, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR.ON THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF BRUTES.TO MISS SEWARD. IMPROMPTU.MONODY ON MAJOR ANDRE.LETTERS Addressed to the Author of the foregoing Poem, BY MAJOR ANDRE.LETTER II.LETTER III.ODE TO POETIC FANCY.EPISTLE TO CORNELIA.EPISTLE TO Mr ROMNEY, BEING PRESENTED BY HIM WITH A PICTURE OF WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.WRITTEN IN THE BLANK PAGE OF THE SORROWS OF WERTER.[66]WRITTEN IN THE TITLE PAGE OF A VOLUME CONTAINING Mr JEPHSON’s TRAGEDIES.WRITTEN IN A DIMINUTIVE EDITION OF GRAY’S POEMS.VERSES WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAVES OF MR HAYLEY’S POEMS, PRESENTED BY A. SEWARD, TO WM. GROVE, ESQ. OF LICHFIELD, 1793.WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAF OF A SMALL POCKET EDITION OF THOMSON’s SEASONS, THE GIFT OF MISS NOTT, OF LICHFIELD.WITH A LOCK OF THE AUTHOR’s HAIR, TO A GENTLEMAN WHO REQUESTED IT.ON SEEING MR HAYLEY’S WORKS INVIDIOUSLY CRITICIZED IN THE PUBLIC PRINTS OF THE YEAR 1783.VERSES TO THE CELEBRATED PAINTER, MR WRIGHT, OF DERBY, WRITTEN IN 1783.EPISTLE[73] TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.TO THE MEMORY OF LADY MILLAR.[83]EPISTLE TO THE REV. DR WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, OF REPTON, DERBYSHIRE, WRITTEN IN 1783.TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. ON LEAVING EARTHAM, HIS SEAT IN SUSSEX, SEPT. 1782.ADDRESS TO THE SUN. WRITTEN IN A CHAISE, RETURNING OUT OF SUSSEX, SEPT. 15, AFTER A SIX WEEKS RESIDENCE AT MR HAYLEY’S SEAT, IN THAT COUNTY, 1782.ADDRESS TO WOMAN. FROM THE ITALIAN.VERSES TO THE Rev. WILLIAM MASON, ON HIS SILENCE RESPECTING DR JOHNSON’S UNJUST CRITICISMS UPON MR GRAY’S WORKS, IN THE LIVES OF THE POETS.—WRITTEN IN 1782.[106]ON HANNAH ROBINSON, OF LICHFIELD, ADDRESSED TO HER HUSBAND, THE REV R. G. ROBINSON.ON LADY MILLER, INSCRIBED ON HER MONUMENT IN THE ABBEY CHURCH, BATH.ON ELIZA JONES, WIFE OF THE REVEREND JOHN JONES.ON MISS ANNE LAWLEY, DAUGHTER OF SIR ROBERT LAWLEY, OB. 1790. ÆTAT. 11.ON DAVID GARRICK, Esq.[107]ON MRS BENNET, [108] OB. SEPTEMBER 1792, ÆTAT. 73.ON ELIZA WHATELEY, WHO DIED MAY 1793, AGED NINE YEARS.ON ELIZABETH, WIFE OF J. B. SIMPSON, ESQ. OF BABWORTH, IN YORKSHIRE. She was celebrated for her skill in Painting and Music.ON ELIZABETH, WIFE OF THE REV. MICHAEL BAXTER, OF TAMWORTH.ON THE HON. HENRIETTA BAGOT, OB. JAN. 13, 1797, AGED 16.ON MISS WINGFIELD, OF SHREWSBURY, OB. DECEMBER 1797, ÆT. 25.INSCRIBED ON THE MONUMENT OF THE Rev. WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, IN REPTON CHURCH. HE DIED 1800.FOR A MARBLE TABLET IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN SAVILLE, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS VICAR-CHORAL OF THAT PLACE, DIED AUGUST 2, 1803, AGED 67.ON GENERAL SIMCOE.EPISTLE TO F. C. R. MUNDY, Esq. OF MARKETON, DERBYSHIRE.—WRITTEN 1794THE RED-BREAST AND SPARROW. A FABLE.MOUNT ETNA. WRITTEN AFTER HAVING READ MR BRYDONE’S TOUR THROUGH SICILY.EPISTLE TO COLONEL ST. GEORGE. WRITTEN APRIL 1783.ODE ON TIME.LOUISA. A POETICAL NOVEL, IN FOUR EPISTLES.LOUISA TO EMMA, HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.SECOND EPISTLE. EUGENIO TO EMMA, ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIES.THIRD EPISTLE. LOUISA TO EMMA, WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM HER EUGENIO’S EXCULPATING LETTER.FOURTH EPISTLE. LOUISA TO EMMA.SONG OF ROXANA.[120] A PERSIAN POEM.THE SONG OF ZILLIA.[121]EASTERN ODE, TRANSLATED FROM THE PROSE OF SIR WILLIAM JONES.[122]DAPHNE’s COYNESS ACCOUNTED FOR.[124]VERSES TO Mr. HAYLEY, CONCERNING UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF OSSIAN.[125]WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, 1784, AFTER A VISIT TO COLTON, THE SEAT OF WILLIAM GILBERT, ESQ. IN STAFFORDSHIRE.COLEBROOK DALE.INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY TRUE VIRTUE. ADDRESSED TO Mr WILLIAM NEWTON, WITH THE AUTHOR’S FORMER PUBLICATIONS.[136]TO THE Rev. JOHN GRANVILLE.EPISTLE TO NATHANIEL LISTER, Esq. OF LICHFIELD, ON HAVING READ HIS VERSES IN MANUSCRIPT, WRITTEN DECEMBER 1786.[141]EPISTLE TO GEORGE ROMNEY, Esq. ON HIS HAVING PRESENTED THE AUTHOR’S PICTURE TO HER FATHER, MAY 1788.IDYLLIUM. FROM THE ITALIAN.TO Mrs SMITH, DAUGHTER OF MR SAVILLE, ON HER SINGING IN PUBLIC,—JANUARY 1789.ALPINE SCENERY. A POEM. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGWICK WHALLEY, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ON THE CONTINENT, IN 1785.ODE ON GENERAL ELIOTT’s RETURN FROM GIBRALTAR, IN 1787.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →THE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;All chapters and sections (78)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTHE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;Volume 2 · Other sectionsVERSES[1] WRITTEN IN DR DARWIN’S BOTANIC GARDEN, Near Lichfield, July, 1778.ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR JOSEPH SYKES, OF WEST-ELLA, AT THE AGE OF NINETEEN.CHARITY, PRIZE POEM AT BATH-EASTON; Containing a Paraphrase of the 13th Chap. of Corinthians.MONODY ON THE DEATH OF DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.ODE ON THE PYTHAGOREAN SYSTEM. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.INVOCATION OF THE COMIC MUSE. Prize Poem at Bath-Easton.AMUSEMENTS OF WINTER. Written in 1779.BERMUDA, ADDRESSED TO DOCTOR TUCKER, A young Physician, Native of that Island.ELEGY ON CAPTAIN COOK.VERSES TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.ODE TO THE SUN. Published in May 1780.VERSES TO CAPTAIN ELIOTT, Written in the blank leaf of a manuscript Book, WHICH CONTAINED HIS POEMS.VERSES Inviting Mrs C—— to Tea on a public Fast-day, DURING THE AMERICAN WAR.ON THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF BRUTES.TO MISS SEWARD. IMPROMPTU.MONODY ON MAJOR ANDRE.LETTERS Addressed to the Author of the foregoing Poem, BY MAJOR ANDRE.Volume 2 · Letters23Volume 2 · Other sectionsODE TO POETIC FANCY.EPISTLE TO CORNELIA.EPISTLE TO Mr ROMNEY, BEING PRESENTED BY HIM WITH A PICTURE OF WILLIAM HAYLEY, ESQ.WRITTEN IN THE BLANK PAGE OF THE SORROWS OF WERTER.[66]WRITTEN IN THE TITLE PAGE OF A VOLUME CONTAINING Mr JEPHSON’s TRAGEDIES.WRITTEN IN A DIMINUTIVE EDITION OF GRAY’S POEMS.VERSES WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAVES OF MR HAYLEY’S POEMS, PRESENTED BY A. SEWARD, TO WM. GROVE, ESQ. OF LICHFIELD, 1793.WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAF OF A SMALL POCKET EDITION OF THOMSON’s SEASONS, THE GIFT OF MISS NOTT, OF LICHFIELD.WITH A LOCK OF THE AUTHOR’s HAIR, TO A GENTLEMAN WHO REQUESTED IT.ON SEEING MR HAYLEY’S WORKS INVIDIOUSLY CRITICIZED IN THE PUBLIC PRINTS OF THE YEAR 1783.VERSES TO THE CELEBRATED PAINTER, MR WRIGHT, OF DERBY, WRITTEN IN 1783.EPISTLE[73] TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.TO THE MEMORY OF LADY MILLAR.[83]EPISTLE TO THE REV. DR WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, OF REPTON, DERBYSHIRE, WRITTEN IN 1783.TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. ON LEAVING EARTHAM, HIS SEAT IN SUSSEX, SEPT. 1782.ADDRESS TO THE SUN. WRITTEN IN A CHAISE, RETURNING OUT OF SUSSEX, SEPT. 15, AFTER A SIX WEEKS RESIDENCE AT MR HAYLEY’S SEAT, IN THAT COUNTY, 1782.ADDRESS TO WOMAN. FROM THE ITALIAN.VERSES TO THE Rev. WILLIAM MASON, ON HIS SILENCE RESPECTING DR JOHNSON’S UNJUST CRITICISMS UPON MR GRAY’S WORKS, IN THE LIVES OF THE POETS.—WRITTEN IN 1782.[106]ON HANNAH ROBINSON, OF LICHFIELD, ADDRESSED TO HER HUSBAND, THE REV R. G. ROBINSON.ON LADY MILLER, INSCRIBED ON HER MONUMENT IN THE ABBEY CHURCH, BATH.ON ELIZA JONES, WIFE OF THE REVEREND JOHN JONES.ON MISS ANNE LAWLEY, DAUGHTER OF SIR ROBERT LAWLEY, OB. 1790. ÆTAT. 11.ON DAVID GARRICK, Esq.[107]ON MRS BENNET, [108] OB. SEPTEMBER 1792, ÆTAT. 73.ON ELIZA WHATELEY, WHO DIED MAY 1793, AGED NINE YEARS.ON ELIZABETH, WIFE OF J. B. SIMPSON, ESQ. OF BABWORTH, IN YORKSHIRE. She was celebrated for her skill in Painting and Music.ON ELIZABETH, WIFE OF THE REV. MICHAEL BAXTER, OF TAMWORTH.ON THE HON. HENRIETTA BAGOT, OB. JAN. 13, 1797, AGED 16.ON MISS WINGFIELD, OF SHREWSBURY, OB. DECEMBER 1797, ÆT. 25.INSCRIBED ON THE MONUMENT OF THE Rev. WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, IN REPTON CHURCH. HE DIED 1800.FOR A MARBLE TABLET IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRAL. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN SAVILLE, FORTY-EIGHT YEARS VICAR-CHORAL OF THAT PLACE, DIED AUGUST 2, 1803, AGED 67.ON GENERAL SIMCOE.EPISTLE TO F. C. R. MUNDY, Esq. OF MARKETON, DERBYSHIRE.—WRITTEN 1794THE RED-BREAST AND SPARROW. A FABLE.MOUNT ETNA. WRITTEN AFTER HAVING READ MR BRYDONE’S TOUR THROUGH SICILY.EPISTLE TO COLONEL ST. GEORGE. WRITTEN APRIL 1783.ODE ON TIME.LOUISA. A POETICAL NOVEL, IN FOUR EPISTLES.LOUISA TO EMMA, HER FRIEND IN THE EAST-INDIES.SECOND EPISTLE. EUGENIO TO EMMA, ON HER RETURN FROM THE EAST-INDIES.THIRD EPISTLE. LOUISA TO EMMA, WRITTEN THE DAY AFTER SHE HAD RECEIVED FROM HER EUGENIO’S EXCULPATING LETTER.FOURTH EPISTLE. LOUISA TO EMMA.SONG OF ROXANA.[120] A PERSIAN POEM.THE SONG OF ZILLIA.[121]EASTERN ODE, TRANSLATED FROM THE PROSE OF SIR WILLIAM JONES.[122]DAPHNE’s COYNESS ACCOUNTED FOR.[124]VERSES TO Mr. HAYLEY, CONCERNING UNPUBLISHED REMAINS OF OSSIAN.[125]WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, 1784, AFTER A VISIT TO COLTON, THE SEAT OF WILLIAM GILBERT, ESQ. IN STAFFORDSHIRE.COLEBROOK DALE.INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY TRUE VIRTUE. ADDRESSED TO Mr WILLIAM NEWTON, WITH THE AUTHOR’S FORMER PUBLICATIONS.[136]TO THE Rev. JOHN GRANVILLE.EPISTLE TO NATHANIEL LISTER, Esq. OF LICHFIELD, ON HAVING READ HIS VERSES IN MANUSCRIPT, WRITTEN DECEMBER 1786.[141]EPISTLE TO GEORGE ROMNEY, Esq. ON HIS HAVING PRESENTED THE AUTHOR’S PICTURE TO HER FATHER, MAY 1788.IDYLLIUM. FROM THE ITALIAN.TO Mrs SMITH, DAUGHTER OF MR SAVILLE, ON HER SINGING IN PUBLIC,—JANUARY 1789.ALPINE SCENERY. A POEM. ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGWICK WHALLEY, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ON THE CONTINENT, IN 1785.ODE ON GENERAL ELIOTT’s RETURN FROM GIBRALTAR, IN 1787.JOHN ANDRÉ.—[FROM PORTRAIT BY JOSHUA REYNOLDS.]◇Contents of Volume Second. Footnotes.◇THE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD; →