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Title page COPYRIGHT The Life and Poetry of Mary Robinson Brief Introduction: Mary Robinson by John Joseph Knight Poems, 1775

CONTENTS A PASTORAL BALLAD. PART THE SECOND. ANOTHER. A PASTORAL ELEGY. AN ODE TO WISDOM. AN ODE TO CHARITY. THE LINNET’S PETITION. A CHARACTER. WRITTEN ON THE OUTSIDE OF AN HERMITAGE. A CHARACTER. ODE TO VIRTUE. AN EPISTLE TO A FRIEND. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. THE WISH. ON A FRIEND. ON THE DEATH OF LORD GEORGE LYTTELTON. A CHARACTER. ODE TO SPRING. LETTER TO A FRIEND ON LEAVING TOWN. WRITTEN EXTEMPORE ON THE PICTURE OF A FRIEND. HYMN TO VIRTUE. SONG. SONG. ON THE BIRTH-DAY OF A LADY. TO AURELIA ON HER GOING ABROAD. TO LOVE: WRITTEN EXTEMPORE. THE COMPLAINT. THOUGHTS ON RETIREMENT. AN ODE TO CONTENTMENT. A SONG. THE VISION. TO MATILDA.

Captivity: A Poem; and, Celadon and Lydia: A Tale

CONTENTS DEDICATION TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. NOTE. CAPTIVITY. CELADON AND LYDIA.

Poems, 1791

DEDICATION. SUBSCRIBERS. ODE TO THE MUSE. ODE TO REFLECTION. ODE TO ENVY. ODE TO HEALTH. ODE TO VANITY. ODE TO MELANCHOLY. ODE TO DESPAIR. ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE. SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ODE ON ADVERSITY. ODE TO BEAUTY. ODE TO ELOQUENCE. ODE TO THE MOON. ODE TO MEDITATION. ODE TO DELLA CRUSCA. ODE TO VALOUR. INSCRIBED TO COLONEL BANASTRE TARLETON. LINES TO HIM WHO WILL UNDERSTAND THEM. ELEGY On the DEATH OF LADY MIDDLETON. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF RICHARD BOYLE, ESQ. * ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. MONODY TO THE MEMORY OF CHATTERTON. ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WERTER. CUPID SLEEPING. TO SIMPLICITY. ABSENCE. THE FADED BOUQUET. LINES INSCRIBED TO P. DE LOUTHERBOURG, ESQ. R. A. LINES ON HEARING IT DECLARED TAHT NO WOMEN WERE SO HANDSOME AS THE ENGLISH. STANZAS TO A FRIEND. RINALDO TO LAURA MARIA. TO RINALDO. TO THE MUSE OF POETRY. THE ADIEU TO LOVE. STANZAS TO FLORA. TO CESARIO. ECHO TO HIM WHO COMPLAINS. STANZAS. LINES WRITTEN ON THE SEA-COAST. STANZAS WRITTEN UNDER AN OAK IN WINDSOR FOREST, BEARING THE FOLLOWING INSCRIPTION. STANZAS TO THE ROSE. TO THE MYRTLE. STANZAS INSCRIBED TO LADY WILLIAM RUSSELL. MORNING. LIFE. LINES TO THE MEMORY OF RICHARD BOYLE, ESQ. SON OF MRS. WALSINGHAM. STANZAS TO LOVE. OBERON TO THE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES. LINES WRITTEN BY THE SIDE OF A RIVER. TO LEONARDO. THE BEE AND THE BUTTERFLY. STANZAS TO TIME. CANZONET. THE REPLY TO TIME. STANZAS. PASTORAL STANZAS. PASTORAL STANZAS. THE ORIGIN OF CUPID. SONNET INSCRIBED TO HER GRACE THE DUTCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE. SONNET TO AMICUS. † SONNET TO THE MEMORY OF MISS MARIA LINLEY. SONNET TO EVENING. SONNET TO INGRATITUDE. SONNET. SONNET TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER. SONNET. SONNET. THE MARINER. SONNET. SONNET. THE PEASANT. SONNET WRITTEN AMONG THE RUINS OF AN ANCIENT CASTLE IN GERMANY, IN THE YEAR 1786. SONNET. THE TEAR. SONNET. THE SNOW DROP. SONNET. PETRARCH TO LAURA. AINSI VA LE MONDE. SIR RAYMOND OF THE CASTLE. LEWIN AND GYNNETH.

Sight, the Cavern of Woe, and Solitude

CONTENTS SIGHT. THE CAVERN OF WOE. SOLITUDE.

Monody to the Memory of the Late Queen of France

CONTENTS ADVERTISEMENT. MONODY TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE QUEEN OF FRANCE.

Sappho and Phaon

CONTENTS PREFACE. Account of Sappho. I. Introductory. II. The temple of Chastity. III. The Bower of Pleasure. IV. Sappho discovers her Passion. V. Contemns its Power. VI. Describes the characteristics of Love. VII. Invokes Reason. VIII. Her Passion increases. IX. Laments the volatility of Phaon. X. Describes Phaon. XI. Rejects the Influence of Reason. XII. Previous to her Interview with Phaon. XIII. She endeavours to fascinate him. XIV. To the Aeolian Harp. XV. Phaon awakes. XVI. Sappho rejects Hope. XVII. The Tyranny of Love. XVIII. To Phaon. XIX. Suspects his constancy. XX. To Phaon. XXI. Laments her early Misfortunes. XXII. Phaon forsakes her. XXIII. Sappho’s Conjectures. XXIV. Her Address to the Moon. XXV. To Phaon. XXVI. Contemns Philosophy. XXVII. Sappho’s Address to the Stars. XXVIII. Describes the fascinations of Love. XXIX. Determines to follow Phaon. XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos. XXXI. Describes her Bark. XXXII. Dreams of a Rival. XXXIII. Reaches Sicily. XXXIV. Sappho’s Prayer to Venus. XXXV. Reproaches Phaon. XXXVI. Her confirmed Despair. XXXVII. Foresees her Death. XXXVIII. To a Sigh. XXXIX. To the Muses. XL. Visions appear to her in a dream. XLI. Resolves to take the Leap of Leucata. XLII. Her last Appeal to Phaon. XLIII. Her Reflections on the Leucadian Rock before she perishes. XLIV. Sonnect Conclusive

Lyrical Tales

CONTENTS ALL ALONE. THE MISTLETOE. THE POOR, SINGING DAME. MISTRESS GURTON’S CAT. THE LASCAR. THE WIDOW’S HOME. THE SHEPHERD’S DOG. THE FUGITIVE. THE HAUNTED BEACH. OLD BARNARD, THE HERMIT OF MONT‐BLANC. DEBORAH’S PARROT, THE NEGRO GIRL. THE TRUMPETER. THE DESERTED COTTAGE. THE FORTUNE‐TELLER, POOR MARGUERITE. THE CONFESSOR, EDMUND’S WEDDING. THE ALIEN BOY. THE GRANNY GREY. GOLFRE GOLFRE PART I. GOLFRE PART II. GOLFRE PART III. GOLFRE PART IV. GOLFRE PART V.

The Wild Wreath

CONTENTS DEDICATION TO HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF YORK. TALES. THE FOSTER‐CHILD. CANTO I. CANTO II. EDWIN AND ELLEN. THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER. FUGITIVE PIECES. LINES ADDRESSED TO EARL MOIRA. TO LAURA. LINES WRITTEN IN HAMPTON CHURCH‐YARD. SUSAN. THE FELON. INGRATITUDE. THE WINT’RY DAY. TO AN INFANT SLEEPING. TO THE ASPIN TREE. THE OLD SHEPHERD AND THE SQUIRE. THE MISER. THE GAMESTER. A LONDON SUMMER MORNING. THE FISHERMAN. THE POET’S GARRET. THE SORROWS OF MEMORY. SONNET TO LIBERTY. LINES TO SPRING. WRITTEN IN MAY 1800. LINES, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY LADY, WHOM THE CRUELTY OF A SAVAGE HUSBAND COMPELLED TO QUIT HIS HOUSE TO A FRIEND, WITH SOME PAINTED FLOWERS. EXCESS. A WAR POEM. AN EVENING MEDITATION BY THE SIDE OF A RIVER. LINES WRITTEN ON THE 9TH OF SEPTEMBER, 1798. THE DREAM. LINES SENT TO A LADY, WITH AN ALMANACK IN A SILVER CASE. THE MAD MONK. TO A FALSE FRIEND. THE TWILIGHT HOUR. A RECEIPT FOR MODERN LOVE. LESBIA AND HER LOVER. INSCRIBED TO A ONCE DEAR FRIEND. IMPROMPTU. THE SAILOR’S DEPARTURE. THE MINCE‐PYE. WINKFIELD PLAIN; OR, A DESCRIPTION OF A CAMP IN THE YEAR 1800. LINES SENT TO THE LOVELY AND ACCOMPLISHED MISS S* * * * * *, WITH SOME OF THE AUTHOR’S POETRY. PAPA’S NOSE! TO LOVE. THE LOVER. LINES BY THE HON. AND REV. T. J. TWISLETON. TO A FRIEND, ON THE AUTHOR’S INTENTION TO QUIT ENGLAND FOR SEVERAL YEARS. TO WILLIAM MOODY, ESQ. WITH AN EMPTY PURSE. PROLOGUE, WRITTEN BY THE EARL OF MOUNT EDGCUMBE; AND SPOKEN BY HIM AT THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE, STRAW‐ BERRY‐HILL, NOV. 1800. EPILOGUE, TO THE THEATRICAL REPRESENTATION AT STRAWBERRY‐ HILL. ANACREONTIC. MORNING. BRING ME THE FLOWING CUP, DEAR BOY! WINTER. TO BACCHUS. THE DAY IS PAST; THE SULTRY WEST A KISS. FAIRY VISIONS. OBERON TO TITANIA. TITANIA’S ANSWER TO OBERON. TO GEORGIANA, ON THE MORNING OF HER BIRTH‐DAY. ADDENDA. HARVEST‐HOME. SONNET IL AMANTE TIMIDO. SONNET ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF POPE’S GARDENS AT TWICKENHAM.

The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction A Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination

A LETTER TO THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, ON THE INJUSTICE OF MENTAL SUBORDINATION LIST OF BRITISH FEMALE LITERARY CHARACTERS LIVING IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

The Memoir Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself

INTRODUCTION TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION EDITOR’S PREFACE MRS. MARY ROBINSON CONTINUATION BY A FRIEND JANE, DUCHESS OF GORDON GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE ENDNOTES

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