The poetical works of Anna Seward, Vol. 3 [of 3]Front matterReading editionChapter navigation196 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTHE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;EYAM. [1]REMONSTRANCE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. IN 1788, ON THE SARCASMS LEVELLED AT NATIONAL GRATITUDE IN THE TASK.[4]CRUGAL’s GHOST, APPEARING TO CONNAL,—FROM OSSIAN.[14]THE GHOST OF CUCHULLIN. FROM OSSIAN.EPISTLE TO Mr Newton, the Derbyshire Minstrel, ON RECEIVING HIS DESCRIPTION, IN VERSE, OF AN AUTUMNAL SCENE, NEAR EYAM, IN THAT COUNTY, SEPTEMBER, 1791.TO Mr JOHN SALT, of LICHFIELD,[15] ON HAVING READ SOME OF HIS COMPOSITIONS ON A RAINY EVENING, IN AUGUST, 1789.ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF THE CELEBRATED Mr NORRIS, of OXFORD, BATCHELOR OF MUSIC.[16]ON MAJOR ANDRE. SERIOUS EPIGRAM TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.[17]HAROLD’s COMPLAINT.[18] A SCANDINAVIAN ODE. FROM DR ALEXANDER’S HISTORY OF WOMEN. [19]THE LAKE; OR, MODERN IMPROVEMENT IN LANDSCAPE.WRITTEN AFTER HAVING VISITED MISS MORE, AND HER SISTERS AT COWSLIP GREEN, NEAR BRISTOL, IN AUGUST 1791.TRANSLATION OF GRAY’S APOSTROPHE, TO THE MEMORY OF HIS YOUNG FRIEND, WEST, IN HIS UNFINISHED LATIN POEM, De principiis cogitandi.[22]PARAPHRASE OF GRAY’s ALCAICK ODE, WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE GRAND CHARTREUSE, ON HIS WAY BACK TO ENGLAND, AFTER HAVING VISITED THE ITALIAN CITIES WITH MR WALPOLE.[23]TO Sir NIGEL GRESLEY. APOLOGY FOR NOT ACCEPTING HIS INVITATION TO A MASQUERADE-BALL AT HIS SEAT, DRAKELOW, IN STAFFORDSHIRE.TO ---- SHERIVE, Esq. STUDENT AT OXFORD.SONNET, to the Rev. RICHARD POLWHELE, ON HIS poem UPON THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT.[27]THE FIRST PSALM PUT INTO VERSE.137th PSALM PARAPHRASED.TO CHARLES SIMPSON, Esq. BARRISTER; WITH THOS. WARTON’S EDITION OF MILTON’S LESSER POEMS, ENRICHED BY THE EDITOR’S CRITICAL NOTES.TO MAJOR ROOKE OF MANSFIELD, ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DIURNAL REGISTER OF THE WINDS FOR THE TWO LAST YEARS. OCTOBER, 1796.TO CH. CLARKE, Esq. ON HIS REQUEST TO OBTAIN THE AUTHOR’S SIGNATURE WRITTEN WITH HER OWN HAND. (IMPROMPTU.)A WARNING EXHORTATION.TO HUMPHRY REPTON, Esq. ON BEING PRESENTED BY HIM WITH HIS LANDSCAPE OF STOWE-VALLEY.[32]PHILIPPIC ON A MODERN EPIC.LLANGOLLEN VALE, INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ELEANOR BUTLER, AND MISS PONSONBY.VERSES ON WREXHAM, AND THE INHABITANTS OF ITS ENVIRONS.HOYLE LAKE, [58] A POEM, WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR, SIR JOHN STANLEY.HERVA, [64] AT THE TOMB OF ARGANTYR. A RUNIC DIALOGUE.INSCRIPTIONS. EACH WRITTEN ON A CARD INCLOSED IN A LETTER-CASE, NETTED BY THE AUTHOR, AND PRESENTED TO HER FRIENDS.INSCRIPTIONS, SEALED UP AND INCLOSED IN NET LETTER-CASES, PRESENTED TO THE CHARITABLE REPOSITORY AT LICHFIELD.TO MRS SIDDONS.ODE ON ENGLAND’S NAVAL TRIUMPHS IN THE PRESENT WAR.[71]TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE MARCHIONESS OF DONEGALL, WITH MR HAYLEY’S LIFE OF MILTON.TO MISS GODFREY,[73] WITH MR HAYLEY’S LIFE OF MILTON.SONNET I. [74]SONNET II.SONNET III. WRITTEN AT BUXTON IN A RAINY SEASON.SONNET IV. TO HONORA SNEYD,[75] WHOSE HEALTH WAS ALWAYS BEST IN WINTER. MAY 1770.SONNET V. TO A FRIEND, WHO THINKS SENSIBILITY A MISFORTUNE.SONNET VI. WRITTEN AT LICHFIELD, IN AN EASTERN APARTMENT OF THE BISHOP’S PALACE, WHICH COMMANDS A VIEW OF STOW VALLEY.SONNET VII.SONNET VIII. TRANSLATION.SONNET IX.SONNET X. TO HONORA SNEYD. APRIL 1773.SONNET XI.SONNET XII. JULY 1773.SONNET XIII. JULY 1773.SONNET XIV. JULY 1773.SONNET XV. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD. MAY 1774.SONNET XVI. TRANSLATED FROM BOILEAU.SONNET XVII.[76]SONNET XVIII. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER, WHICH HAD BEEN STORMY, GRADUALLY CLEARING UP, IN A MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY.SONNET XIX. TO——.SONNET XX. ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF POPE’S GARDENS AT TWICKENHAM.SONNET XXI.SONNET XXII. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XXIII. TO MISS E. S.SONNET XXIV. TRANSLATION.SONNET XXV. PETRARCH to VAUCLUSE.[79]SONNET XXVI.SONNET XXVII.SONNET XXVIII.SONNET XXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XXX.SONNET XXXI. TO THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF AN ALIENATED FRIEND.SONNET XXXII. SUBJECT OF THE PRECEDING SONNET CONTINUED.SONNET XXXIII. JUNE 1780.SONNET XXXIV. JUNE 1780.SONNET XXXV. APRIL 29TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVI. JUNE 27TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVII. OCTOBER 27TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVIII. DECEMBER 1ST, 1782.SONNET XXXIX. DECEMBER 7TH, 1782.SONNET XL. DEC. 19TH, 1782. DECEMBER MORNING.[80]SONNET XLI. DEC. 21ST, 1782. INVITATION TO A FRIEND.SONNET XLII. DEC. 31ST, 1782.SONNET XLIII. TO MAY, IN THE YEAR 1783.SONNET XLIV.SONNET XLV.[82]SONNET XLVI.SONNET XLVII. ON MR SARGENT’S DRAMATIC POEM, THE MINE.[83]SONNET XLVIII.SONNET XLIX. ON THE USE OF NEW AND OLD WORDS IN POETRY.SONNET L.SONNET LI. TO SYLVIA, ON HER APPROACHING NUPTIALS.SONNET LII.SONNET LIII. WRITTEN IN THE SPRING 1785 ON THE DEATH OF THE POET LAUREAT.SONNET LIV. A PERSIAN KING TO HIS SON. FROM A PROSE TRANSLATION IN SIR WILLIAM JONES’ ESSAY ON THE POETRY OF THE EASTERN NATIONS.SONNET LV. OH THE QUICK TRANSITION FROM WINTER TO SUMMER, IN THE YEAR 1785.SONNET LVI. TO A TIMID YOUNG LADY, DISTRESSED BY THE ATTENTIONS OF AN AMIABLE AND ACCEPTED LOVER.SONNET LVII. WRITTEN THE NIGHT PRECEDING THE FUNERAL OF MRS CHARLES BUCKERIDGE.[89]SONNET LVIII.SONNET LIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARIANNE CARNEGIE,SONNET LX.[90]SONNET LXI. TO MR HENRY CARY,[91] ON READING HIS SONNETS WRITTEN AT SIXTEEN.SONNET LXII.[92]SONNET LXIII. TO COLEBROOKE DALE.SONNET LXIV. TO MR HENRY CARY, ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS SONNETS.SONNET LXV. TO THE SAME.SONNET LXVI.SONNET LXVII. ON DOCTOR JOHNSON’S UNJUST CRITICISMS IN HIS LIVES OF THE POETS.[93]SONNET LXVIII. ON THE POSTHUMOUS FAME OF DOCTOR JOHNSON.SONNET LXIX. TO A YOUNG LADY, PURPOSING TO MARRY A MAN OF IMMORAL CHARACTER IN THE HOPE OF HIS REFORMATION.SONNET LXX. TO A YOUNG LADY IN AFFLICTION, WHO FANCIED SHE SHOULD NEVER MORE BE HAPPY.SONNET LXXI. TO THE POPPY.SONNET LXXII. WRITTEN IN THE RAINY SUMMER OF 1789.SONNET LXXIII. TRANSLATION.SONNET LXXIV.SONNET LXXV. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET LXXVI. THE CRITICS OF DR JOHNSON’S SCHOOL.[95]SONNET LXXVII.SONNET LXXVIII.SONNET LXXIX.SONNET LXXX.SONNET LXXXI. ON A LOCK OF MISS SARAH SEWARD’S HAIR, WHO DIED IN HER TWENTIETH YEAR.SONNET LXXXII.SONNET LXXXIII. ON CATANIA AND SYRACUSE SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE. FROM THE ITALIAN OF FILACAJA.SONNET LXXXIV.SONNET LXXXV. TO MARCH.SONNET LXXXVI. TO THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY.[97]SONNET LXXXVII. TO A YOUNG LADY, ADDRESSED BY A GENTLEMAN, CELEBRATED FOR HIS POETICAL TALENTS.SONNET LXXXVIII.SONNET LXXXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XC. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XCI.SONNET XCII.SONNET XCIII.SONNET XCIV.SONNET XCV.SONNET XCVI.SONNET XCVII. TO A COFFIN-LID. LICHFIELD, MARCH 1790.SONNET XCVIII.SONNET XCIX. ON THE VIOLENT THUNDER STORMS, DECEMBER 1790.SONNET C. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1790.PARAPHRASES AND IMITATIONS OF HORACE.TO MÆCENAS. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE FIRST.TO PYRRHA. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE FIFTH.TO MUNATIUS PLANCUS.[102] BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE SEVENTH.TO LYDIA. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE EIGHTH.TO THALIARCHUS.[108] BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE NINTH.TO LEUCONOE. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE ELEVENTH.TO APOLLO. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE THIRTY-FIRST.TO HIS ATTENDANT. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE THIRTY-EIGHTH.TO SALLUST. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE SECOND.TO THE HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE. HORACE, BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE THIRD, IMITATED. OCTOBER, 1796.TO BARINE. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE EIGHTH.TO TITUS VALGIUS.[113] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE NINTH.TO LICINIUS MURENA.[120] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE TENTH.TO MÆCENAS.[122] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE TWELFTH.TO POSTHUMUS. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE FOURTEENTH.TO LYCE, ON HER REFUSING TO ADMIT HIS VISITS. BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE TENTH.TO THE FOUNTAIN OF BLANDUSIA.[124] BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE THIRTEENTH.TO TELEPHUS.[125] BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE NINETEENTH.TO PHYLLIS. EXHORTING HER TO BE CONTENT WITH A FRUGAL SACRIFICE. BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE TWENTY-THIRD.TO MELPOMENE. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE THIRD.TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE SEVENTH, IMITATED.TO LIGURIA. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE TENTH.TO PHYLLIS. INVITING HER TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH-DAY OF MÆCENAS. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE ELEVENTH.ON THE PLEASURES OF RURAL LIFE.[131] BOOK THE FIFTH, EPODE THE SECOND.TO NEAERA. BOOK THE FIFTH, EPODE THE FIFTEENTH.TO THE ROMAN PEOPLE, ON THEIR RENEWING THE CIVIL WARS. BOOK THE FIFTH, ODE THE SEVENTH.PROEM.GREVILLE and JULIA.SONNET,SPEECH OF THE NYMPH OF THAT BROOK, WHICH, AFTER HEAVY RAIN, BECOMES A DEEP, VIOLENT, AND FORMIDABLE TORRENT.SONNET.[147]A MEDITATION.PROEM TO A COMPOSITION IN VERSE, INTITLED, “The Terrestrial Year passing through the Signs of the Zodiac.”THE TERRESTRIAL YEAR, ON HER PROGRESS THRO’ THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE, DRAWN BY THE REV. WILLIAM BREE OF COLESHILL, IN WARWICKSHIRE.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THE COMPANION LANDSCAPE.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE, COPIED FROM GLOVER, BY MISS FLEMING OF LICHFIELD.ADDRESS TO THE RIVER IN A LANDSCAPE, BEAUTIFULLY DRAWN BY THE REV. WILLIAM BREE, AND IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REV. HENRY WHITE OF LICHFIELD.TO MISS HONORA SMITH of LICHFIELD.[150] WRITTEN JUNE 1800.ADMONITION TO ROSILDA.A MARINE VIEW MORALIZED ADDRESSED TO MISS ANNE LLOYD OF DERBY.[152]TO CLARISSA.A FAREWELL TO THE SEAT OF LADY ELEANOR BUTLER, AND MISS PONSONBY, IN LLANGOLLEN VALE, DENBIGHSHIRE. SEPTEMBER, 1802.CONSOLATION, ADDRESSED TO MR THOS. H——D, APRIL 1801, WITH A POCKET-BOOK.TO ROBERT HARPER, Esq. SENT TO HIM THE NIGHT BEFORE HE TOOK HIS BRIDE TO THEIR HOUSE IN LONDON.BALLAD IN THE ANCIENT SCOTCH DIALECT, AULD WILLIE’S FAREWELL, A Free-Booter, taken in a Border Battle, and condemned to be Executed.[157]ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGEWICK WHALLEY, ON LEAVING HIS SEAT, MENDIP LODGE, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, OCT. 10th, 1804.THE GRAVE OF YOUTH.TO MRS SKERETT, WRITTEN, NOV. 1805.TO MISS CATHERINE MALLET.IMPROMPTU, WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAVES OF MISS ANNA BURT’S REPOSITORY OF FRIENDSHIP.ELEGY, WRITTEN AS FROM A FRENCH LADY, WHOSE HUSBAND HAD BEEN THREE YEARS PRISONER OF WAR AT LICHFIELD.TO MISS MANSEL, OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG ROSCIUS.[183]A FAVOURITE CATS DYING SOLILOQUY, ADDRESSED TO MRS PATTON OF LICHFIELD.TO LITTLE CATHERINE HARPER, AGED THREE YEARS, PRESENTING HER WITH A BLUE SATTIN BONNET.INSCRIBED ON THE BLANK LEAVES OF THE POEM MADOC.TO F. N. C. MUNDY, Esq. ON HIS POEM, THE FALL OF NEEDWOOD FOREST.TO REMEMBRANCE.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →THE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;All chapters and sections (196)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTHE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD;Volume 3 · Other sectionsEYAM. [1]REMONSTRANCE ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM COWPER, ESQ. IN 1788, ON THE SARCASMS LEVELLED AT NATIONAL GRATITUDE IN THE TASK.[4]CRUGAL’s GHOST, APPEARING TO CONNAL,—FROM OSSIAN.[14]THE GHOST OF CUCHULLIN. FROM OSSIAN.EPISTLE TO Mr Newton, the Derbyshire Minstrel, ON RECEIVING HIS DESCRIPTION, IN VERSE, OF AN AUTUMNAL SCENE, NEAR EYAM, IN THAT COUNTY, SEPTEMBER, 1791.TO Mr JOHN SALT, of LICHFIELD,[15] ON HAVING READ SOME OF HIS COMPOSITIONS ON A RAINY EVENING, IN AUGUST, 1789.ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF THE CELEBRATED Mr NORRIS, of OXFORD, BATCHELOR OF MUSIC.[16]ON MAJOR ANDRE. SERIOUS EPIGRAM TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.[17]HAROLD’s COMPLAINT.[18] A SCANDINAVIAN ODE. FROM DR ALEXANDER’S HISTORY OF WOMEN. [19]THE LAKE; OR, MODERN IMPROVEMENT IN LANDSCAPE.WRITTEN AFTER HAVING VISITED MISS MORE, AND HER SISTERS AT COWSLIP GREEN, NEAR BRISTOL, IN AUGUST 1791.TRANSLATION OF GRAY’S APOSTROPHE, TO THE MEMORY OF HIS YOUNG FRIEND, WEST, IN HIS UNFINISHED LATIN POEM, De principiis cogitandi.[22]PARAPHRASE OF GRAY’s ALCAICK ODE, WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE GRAND CHARTREUSE, ON HIS WAY BACK TO ENGLAND, AFTER HAVING VISITED THE ITALIAN CITIES WITH MR WALPOLE.[23]TO Sir NIGEL GRESLEY. APOLOGY FOR NOT ACCEPTING HIS INVITATION TO A MASQUERADE-BALL AT HIS SEAT, DRAKELOW, IN STAFFORDSHIRE.TO ---- SHERIVE, Esq. STUDENT AT OXFORD.SONNET, to the Rev. RICHARD POLWHELE, ON HIS poem UPON THE INFLUENCE OF LOCAL ATTACHMENT.[27]THE FIRST PSALM PUT INTO VERSE.137th PSALM PARAPHRASED.TO CHARLES SIMPSON, Esq. BARRISTER; WITH THOS. WARTON’S EDITION OF MILTON’S LESSER POEMS, ENRICHED BY THE EDITOR’S CRITICAL NOTES.TO MAJOR ROOKE OF MANSFIELD, ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS DIURNAL REGISTER OF THE WINDS FOR THE TWO LAST YEARS. OCTOBER, 1796.TO CH. CLARKE, Esq. ON HIS REQUEST TO OBTAIN THE AUTHOR’S SIGNATURE WRITTEN WITH HER OWN HAND. (IMPROMPTU.)A WARNING EXHORTATION.TO HUMPHRY REPTON, Esq. ON BEING PRESENTED BY HIM WITH HIS LANDSCAPE OF STOWE-VALLEY.[32]PHILIPPIC ON A MODERN EPIC.LLANGOLLEN VALE, INSCRIBED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY ELEANOR BUTLER, AND MISS PONSONBY.VERSES ON WREXHAM, AND THE INHABITANTS OF ITS ENVIRONS.HOYLE LAKE, [58] A POEM, WRITTEN ON THAT COAST, AND ADDRESSED TO ITS PROPRIETOR, SIR JOHN STANLEY.HERVA, [64] AT THE TOMB OF ARGANTYR. A RUNIC DIALOGUE.INSCRIPTIONS. EACH WRITTEN ON A CARD INCLOSED IN A LETTER-CASE, NETTED BY THE AUTHOR, AND PRESENTED TO HER FRIENDS.INSCRIPTIONS, SEALED UP AND INCLOSED IN NET LETTER-CASES, PRESENTED TO THE CHARITABLE REPOSITORY AT LICHFIELD.TO MRS SIDDONS.ODE ON ENGLAND’S NAVAL TRIUMPHS IN THE PRESENT WAR.[71]TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE MARCHIONESS OF DONEGALL, WITH MR HAYLEY’S LIFE OF MILTON.TO MISS GODFREY,[73] WITH MR HAYLEY’S LIFE OF MILTON.SONNET I. [74]SONNET II.SONNET III. WRITTEN AT BUXTON IN A RAINY SEASON.SONNET IV. TO HONORA SNEYD,[75] WHOSE HEALTH WAS ALWAYS BEST IN WINTER. MAY 1770.SONNET V. TO A FRIEND, WHO THINKS SENSIBILITY A MISFORTUNE.SONNET VI. WRITTEN AT LICHFIELD, IN AN EASTERN APARTMENT OF THE BISHOP’S PALACE, WHICH COMMANDS A VIEW OF STOW VALLEY.SONNET VII.SONNET VIII. TRANSLATION.SONNET IX.SONNET X. TO HONORA SNEYD. APRIL 1773.SONNET XI.SONNET XII. JULY 1773.SONNET XIII. JULY 1773.SONNET XIV. JULY 1773.SONNET XV. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD. MAY 1774.SONNET XVI. TRANSLATED FROM BOILEAU.SONNET XVII.[76]SONNET XVIII. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER, WHICH HAD BEEN STORMY, GRADUALLY CLEARING UP, IN A MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY.SONNET XIX. TO——.SONNET XX. ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF POPE’S GARDENS AT TWICKENHAM.SONNET XXI.SONNET XXII. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XXIII. TO MISS E. S.SONNET XXIV. TRANSLATION.SONNET XXV. PETRARCH to VAUCLUSE.[79]SONNET XXVI.SONNET XXVII.SONNET XXVIII.SONNET XXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XXX.SONNET XXXI. TO THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF AN ALIENATED FRIEND.SONNET XXXII. SUBJECT OF THE PRECEDING SONNET CONTINUED.SONNET XXXIII. JUNE 1780.SONNET XXXIV. JUNE 1780.SONNET XXXV. APRIL 29TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVI. JUNE 27TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVII. OCTOBER 27TH, 1782.SONNET XXXVIII. DECEMBER 1ST, 1782.SONNET XXXIX. DECEMBER 7TH, 1782.SONNET XL. DEC. 19TH, 1782. DECEMBER MORNING.[80]SONNET XLI. DEC. 21ST, 1782. INVITATION TO A FRIEND.SONNET XLII. DEC. 31ST, 1782.SONNET XLIII. TO MAY, IN THE YEAR 1783.SONNET XLIV.SONNET XLV.[82]SONNET XLVI.SONNET XLVII. ON MR SARGENT’S DRAMATIC POEM, THE MINE.[83]SONNET XLVIII.SONNET XLIX. ON THE USE OF NEW AND OLD WORDS IN POETRY.SONNET L.SONNET LI. TO SYLVIA, ON HER APPROACHING NUPTIALS.SONNET LII.SONNET LIII. WRITTEN IN THE SPRING 1785 ON THE DEATH OF THE POET LAUREAT.SONNET LIV. A PERSIAN KING TO HIS SON. FROM A PROSE TRANSLATION IN SIR WILLIAM JONES’ ESSAY ON THE POETRY OF THE EASTERN NATIONS.SONNET LV. OH THE QUICK TRANSITION FROM WINTER TO SUMMER, IN THE YEAR 1785.SONNET LVI. TO A TIMID YOUNG LADY, DISTRESSED BY THE ATTENTIONS OF AN AMIABLE AND ACCEPTED LOVER.SONNET LVII. WRITTEN THE NIGHT PRECEDING THE FUNERAL OF MRS CHARLES BUCKERIDGE.[89]SONNET LVIII.SONNET LIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARIANNE CARNEGIE,SONNET LX.[90]SONNET LXI. TO MR HENRY CARY,[91] ON READING HIS SONNETS WRITTEN AT SIXTEEN.SONNET LXII.[92]SONNET LXIII. TO COLEBROOKE DALE.SONNET LXIV. TO MR HENRY CARY, ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS SONNETS.SONNET LXV. TO THE SAME.SONNET LXVI.SONNET LXVII. ON DOCTOR JOHNSON’S UNJUST CRITICISMS IN HIS LIVES OF THE POETS.[93]SONNET LXVIII. ON THE POSTHUMOUS FAME OF DOCTOR JOHNSON.SONNET LXIX. TO A YOUNG LADY, PURPOSING TO MARRY A MAN OF IMMORAL CHARACTER IN THE HOPE OF HIS REFORMATION.SONNET LXX. TO A YOUNG LADY IN AFFLICTION, WHO FANCIED SHE SHOULD NEVER MORE BE HAPPY.SONNET LXXI. TO THE POPPY.SONNET LXXII. WRITTEN IN THE RAINY SUMMER OF 1789.SONNET LXXIII. TRANSLATION.SONNET LXXIV.SONNET LXXV. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET LXXVI. THE CRITICS OF DR JOHNSON’S SCHOOL.[95]SONNET LXXVII.SONNET LXXVIII.SONNET LXXIX.SONNET LXXX.SONNET LXXXI. ON A LOCK OF MISS SARAH SEWARD’S HAIR, WHO DIED IN HER TWENTIETH YEAR.SONNET LXXXII.SONNET LXXXIII. ON CATANIA AND SYRACUSE SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE. FROM THE ITALIAN OF FILACAJA.SONNET LXXXIV.SONNET LXXXV. TO MARCH.SONNET LXXXVI. TO THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY.[97]SONNET LXXXVII. TO A YOUNG LADY, ADDRESSED BY A GENTLEMAN, CELEBRATED FOR HIS POETICAL TALENTS.SONNET LXXXVIII.SONNET LXXXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XC. SUBJECT CONTINUED.SONNET XCI.SONNET XCII.SONNET XCIII.SONNET XCIV.SONNET XCV.SONNET XCVI.SONNET XCVII. TO A COFFIN-LID. LICHFIELD, MARCH 1790.SONNET XCVIII.SONNET XCIX. ON THE VIOLENT THUNDER STORMS, DECEMBER 1790.SONNET C. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1790.PARAPHRASES AND IMITATIONS OF HORACE.TO MÆCENAS. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE FIRST.TO PYRRHA. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE FIFTH.TO MUNATIUS PLANCUS.[102] BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE SEVENTH.TO LYDIA. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE EIGHTH.TO THALIARCHUS.[108] BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE NINTH.TO LEUCONOE. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE ELEVENTH.TO APOLLO. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE THIRTY-FIRST.TO HIS ATTENDANT. BOOK THE FIRST, ODE THE THIRTY-EIGHTH.TO SALLUST. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE SECOND.TO THE HONOURABLE THOMAS ERSKINE. HORACE, BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE THIRD, IMITATED. OCTOBER, 1796.TO BARINE. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE EIGHTH.TO TITUS VALGIUS.[113] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE NINTH.TO LICINIUS MURENA.[120] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE TENTH.TO MÆCENAS.[122] BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE TWELFTH.TO POSTHUMUS. BOOK THE SECOND, ODE THE FOURTEENTH.TO LYCE, ON HER REFUSING TO ADMIT HIS VISITS. BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE TENTH.TO THE FOUNTAIN OF BLANDUSIA.[124] BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE THIRTEENTH.TO TELEPHUS.[125] BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE NINETEENTH.TO PHYLLIS. EXHORTING HER TO BE CONTENT WITH A FRUGAL SACRIFICE. BOOK THE THIRD, ODE THE TWENTY-THIRD.TO MELPOMENE. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE THIRD.TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE SEVENTH, IMITATED.TO LIGURIA. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE TENTH.TO PHYLLIS. INVITING HER TO CELEBRATE THE BIRTH-DAY OF MÆCENAS. BOOK THE FOURTH, ODE THE ELEVENTH.ON THE PLEASURES OF RURAL LIFE.[131] BOOK THE FIFTH, EPODE THE SECOND.TO NEAERA. BOOK THE FIFTH, EPODE THE FIFTEENTH.TO THE ROMAN PEOPLE, ON THEIR RENEWING THE CIVIL WARS. BOOK THE FIFTH, ODE THE SEVENTH.PROEM.GREVILLE and JULIA.SONNET,SPEECH OF THE NYMPH OF THAT BROOK, WHICH, AFTER HEAVY RAIN, BECOMES A DEEP, VIOLENT, AND FORMIDABLE TORRENT.SONNET.[147]A MEDITATION.PROEM TO A COMPOSITION IN VERSE, INTITLED, “The Terrestrial Year passing through the Signs of the Zodiac.”THE TERRESTRIAL YEAR, ON HER PROGRESS THRO’ THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE, DRAWN BY THE REV. WILLIAM BREE OF COLESHILL, IN WARWICKSHIRE.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THE COMPANION LANDSCAPE.INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE, COPIED FROM GLOVER, BY MISS FLEMING OF LICHFIELD.ADDRESS TO THE RIVER IN A LANDSCAPE, BEAUTIFULLY DRAWN BY THE REV. WILLIAM BREE, AND IN THE POSSESSION OF THE REV. HENRY WHITE OF LICHFIELD.TO MISS HONORA SMITH of LICHFIELD.[150] WRITTEN JUNE 1800.ADMONITION TO ROSILDA.A MARINE VIEW MORALIZED ADDRESSED TO MISS ANNE LLOYD OF DERBY.[152]TO CLARISSA.A FAREWELL TO THE SEAT OF LADY ELEANOR BUTLER, AND MISS PONSONBY, IN LLANGOLLEN VALE, DENBIGHSHIRE. SEPTEMBER, 1802.CONSOLATION, ADDRESSED TO MR THOS. H——D, APRIL 1801, WITH A POCKET-BOOK.TO ROBERT HARPER, Esq. SENT TO HIM THE NIGHT BEFORE HE TOOK HIS BRIDE TO THEIR HOUSE IN LONDON.BALLAD IN THE ANCIENT SCOTCH DIALECT, AULD WILLIE’S FAREWELL, A Free-Booter, taken in a Border Battle, and condemned to be Executed.[157]ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGEWICK WHALLEY, ON LEAVING HIS SEAT, MENDIP LODGE, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, OCT. 10th, 1804.THE GRAVE OF YOUTH.TO MRS SKERETT, WRITTEN, NOV. 1805.TO MISS CATHERINE MALLET.IMPROMPTU, WRITTEN IN THE BLANK LEAVES OF MISS ANNA BURT’S REPOSITORY OF FRIENDSHIP.ELEGY, WRITTEN AS FROM A FRENCH LADY, WHOSE HUSBAND HAD BEEN THREE YEARS PRISONER OF WAR AT LICHFIELD.TO MISS MANSEL, OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG ROSCIUS.[183]A FAVOURITE CATS DYING SOLILOQUY, ADDRESSED TO MRS PATTON OF LICHFIELD.TO LITTLE CATHERINE HARPER, AGED THREE YEARS, PRESENTING HER WITH A BLUE SATTIN BONNET.INSCRIBED ON THE BLANK LEAVES OF THE POEM MADOC.TO F. N. C. MUNDY, Esq. ON HIS POEM, THE FALL OF NEEDWOOD FOREST.TO REMEMBRANCE.Contents of Volume Third. Footnotes.◇THE POETICAL WORKS OF ANNA SEWARD; →