Poetry by English Women by Pritchard, R.E. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Further Reading QUEEN ELIZABETH I 1533–1603

Written with a Diamond On her Window at Woodstock Written on a Wall at Woodstock Written in her French Psalter The Doubt of Future Foes On Monsieur’s Departure

ISABELLA WHITNEY

From The admonition by the Auctor to all yong Gentilwomen: And to al other Maids being in Love Wyll and Testament

LADY MARY HERBERT, COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE 1561–1621

Psalm 57: Miserere Mei, Deus Psalm 58: Si Vere Utique Psalm 92: Bonum Est Confiteri Psalm 139: Domine, Probasti

EMILIA LANYER (or LANIER) 1569–1645

The Description of Cooke-ham

LADY MARY WROTH 1587?–1652?

Sonnets from Pamphilia to Amphilanthus from The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania

ANNE BRADSTREET 1613?–1672

The Prologue To my Dear and loving Husband Before the Birth of one of her Children A Letter to her Husband, absent upon Publick employment Upon the Burning of our House July 10th 1666 Copied out of a loose paper

AN COLLINS

Song Another Song

MARGARET CAVENDISH DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE 1624?–1674

An Excuse for so much writ upon my Verses ‘A poet I am neither born, nor bred’ Of the Theam of Love Natures Cook A Dissert Soule, and Body A Woman drest by Age Of the Animal Spirits A Dialogue betwixt the Body and the Mind from the battle episode in The Fort or Castle of Hope* A Discourse of Beasts

KATHERINE PHILIPS 1631–1664

Friendship’s Mystery, to my dearest Lucasia To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship An Answer to another persuading a Lady to marriage To the Queen of Inconstancy, Regina Collier, in Antwerp Epitaph on her Son H.P. at St Syth’s Church, where her body also lies interred Lucasia, Rosania and Orinda parting at a Fountain, July 1663

APHRA BEHN 1640–1689

Love Arm’d Song: The Willing Mistriss The Disappointment To Alexis in Answer to his Poem against Fruition To the fair Clarinda, who made Love to me, imagin’d more than Woman

LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH 1656–1710

from The Ladies Defence Or, the Bride-Woman’s Counsellor Answered To the Ladies

‘EPHELIA’

On a Bashful Shepherd To One that asked me why I loved J.G. Maidenhead Written at the request of a friend To a Proud Beauty In the Person of a Lady, to Bajazet, Her Unconstant Gallant

ANNE KILLIGREW 1660–1685

On a picture Painted by her self, representing two Nimphs of Diana’s, one in a Posture to Hunt, the other Batheing On Death Upon the saying that my verses were made by another

ANNE FINCH COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA 1661–1720

The Introduction A Letter to Daphnis from The Spleen. A Pindaric Poem The Unequal Fetters A Nocturnal Reverie

SARAH FYGE EGERTON 1669–1723

from The Female Advocate Or, An Answer to a Late Satyr The Liberty The Emulation

ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE 1674–1737

To Celinda The Expostulation from To one that persuades me to leave the Muses To Orestes from A Paraphrase on the Canticles

LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU 1689–1762

from Six Town Eclogues The Lover, A Ballad A Receipt to Cure the Vapours ‘Between your sheets’

MARY COLLIER 1689/90-after 1762

The Womans Labour, an epistle

LAETITIA PILKINGTON 1712?–1750

The Wish, By a Young Lady Dol and Roger A Song A Song Fair and Softly goes far or, The Wary Physician

MARY LEAPOR 1722–1746

from Essay on Friendship from The Head-ache: To Aurelia The Sacrifice: An Epistle to Celia On Winter Mira’s Will

MARY JONES d. 1778

from An Epistle to Lady Bowyer After the Small Pox Soliloquy on an empty Purse

ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD 1743–1825

On a Lady’s Writing Tomorrow Washing-Day The Rights of Woman

ANNA SEWARD 1742–1809

Verses Inviting Mrs. C — to Tea on a public Fast-day During the American War from Colebrook Dale Invocation, To the Genius of Slumber Written Oct. 1787

HANNAH MORE 1745–1833

from The Bas Bleu; Or, Conversation The Riot; or Half a Loaf is Better than No Bread In a Dialogue between Jack Anvil and Tom Hod

CHARLOTTE SMITH 1749–1806

Written in the churchyard at Middleton in Sussex On the Aphorism: ‘L’Amitié est l’amour sans ailes’ from Beachy Head Thirty-eight: Addressed to Mrs H—y

DOROTHY WORDSWORTH 1771–1855

Grasmere – a Fragment Floating Island at Hawkshead, An Incident in the schemes of Nature Thoughts on my sick-bed

JANE TAYLOR 1783–1824

Recreation The Squire’s Pew

FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS 1793–1835

The Homes of England The Indian Woman’s Death Song

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING 1806–1861

from Sonnets from the Portuguese To George Sand: A Recognition from Casa Guidi Windows from Aurora Leigh A Musical Instrument

CHARLOTTE BRONTË 1816–1855

‘Again I find myself alone’ ‘What does she dream of’ Diving from Retrospection

EMILY BRONTË 1818–1848

‘High waving heather’ Plead for Me Remembrance ‘No coward soul is mine’ Stanzas

ANNE BRONTË 1820–1849

Song

JEAN INGELOW 1820–1897

from Divided The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571

DORA GREENWELL 1821–1882

A Scherzo A Shy Person’s Wishes The Sunflower

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 1830–1893

Remember The World From the Antique Echo In An Artist’s Studio A Birthday Up-Hill Amor Mundi The Thread of Life

LOUISA S. BEVINGTON later GUGGENBERGER b.1845

Morning Afternoon Twilight Midnight from Two songs with the tide: a cry of weakness Wrestling

ALICE MEYNELL 1847–1922

Renouncement The Shepherdess Maternity Parentage A Dead Harvest In Kensington Gardens Chimes

EDITH NESBIT 1858–1924

Song Among His Books The Gray Folk Villeggiature

AMY LEVY 1861–1889

London Poets Epitaph A London Plane-Tree In the Mile End Road The Old House

MARY COLERIDGE 1861–1907

The Other Side of a Mirror A Moment In Dispraise of the Moon The Poison Flower An Insincere Wish Addressed to a Beggar Marriage The White Women

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