Poetry by English Women: Elizabethan to Victorian - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0856358940 ISBN 13: 9780856358944

Publisher: Carcanet Pr

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An indispensable compendium of poems by English women -- both those in the working- and middle- as well as upper classes -- dating from the mid-16th century to the early-20th century.

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On A Lady's Writing by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
The Rights Of Woman by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Tomorrow by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
Washing-day by Anna Letitia (aikin) Barbauld
The Disappointment by Aphra Behn
Love Armed by Aphra Behn
Song: The Willing Mistress by Aphra Behn
To Alexis In Answer To His Poem Against Fruition by Aphra Behn
To The Fair Clarinda, Who Made Love To Me by Aphra Behn
Afternoon by Louisa S. Bevington
Midnight by Louisa S. Bevington
Morning by Louisa S. Bevington
Twilight by Louisa S. Bevington
Two Songs: With The Tide - A Cry Of Weakness by Louisa S. Bevington
Wrestling by Louisa S. Bevington
Psalm 139: Domine, Probasti by Bible
Before The Birth Of One Of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet
A Letter To Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment by Anne Bradstreet
The Tenth Muse: The Prologue by Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet
Upon The Burning Of Our House July 10th 1666 by Anne Bradstreet
Song by Anne Bronte
Diving by Charlotte Bronte
My Dreams by Charlotte Bronte
Retrospection, Sels. by Charlotte Bronte
Stanzas by Charlotte Bronte
What Does She Dream Of, Lingering All Alone by Charlotte Bronte
High Waving Heather, 'neath Stormy Blasts Bending by Emily Jane Bronte
No Coward Soul Is Mine by Emily Jane Bronte
Plead For Me by Emily Jane Bronte
Remembrance by Emily Jane Bronte
Long Live The People! How They Lived! And Boiled by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nay, If There's Room For Poets In This World by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Part 1, Selection by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Recognition by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 29 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets From The Portuguese: 5 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Young Aurora's Fostermother by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Battle Episode by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A Dialogue Betweixt The Body And The Mind by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A Discourse Of Beasts by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A Dissert by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
An Excuse For So Much Writ Upon My Verses by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Natures Cook by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Of The Animal Spirits by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Of The Theme Of Love by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A Poet I Am Neither Born, Nor Bred by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
Soule, And Body by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
A Woman Drest By Age by Margaret Lucas Cavendish
To The Ladies by Mary Lee Chudleigh
Unhappy They, Who By Their Duty Led by Mary Lee Chudleigh
In Dispraise Of The Moon by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
An Insincere Wish Addressed To A Beggar by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Marriage by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
A Moment by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Other Side Of A Mirror by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Poison Flower by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The White Women by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
The Woman's Labour. Epistle To Mr. Stephen Duck by Mary Collier
Another Song by Anne Collins
Blasphemous Wretch! How Canst Thou Think Or Say by Sarah Fyge Egerton
The Emulation by Sarah Fyge Egerton
The Liberty by Sarah Fyge Egerton
On Monsieur's Departure by Elizabeth I
Written On A Wall At Woodstock by Elizabeth I
The Introduction by Anne Finch
A Letter To Daphnis by Anne Finch
A Nocturnal Reverie by Anne Finch
The Unequal Fetters by Anne Finch
What Art Thou, Spleen, Which Everything Dost Ape? by Anne Finch
A Scherzo (a Shy Person's Wishes) by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
The Sun-flower by Dora (dorothy) Greenwell
The Homes Of England by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Indian Woman's Death-song by Felicia Dorothea Hemans
3. by Jean Ingelow
The High Tide At [or, On The Coast Of] Lincolnshire by Jean Ingelow
After The Small Pox by Mary Jones
Soliloquy On An Empty Purse by Mary Jones
Spoiled Paper by Mary Jones
On A Picture Painted By Her Self, Representing Two Nimphs by Anne Killigrew
On Death by Anne Killigrew
Upon The Saying That My Verses Were Made By Another by Anne Killigrew
The Description Of Cooke-ham by Aemilia (bassano) Lanyer
Essay On Friendship, Sels. by Mary Leapor
The Headache. To Aurelia by Mary Leapor
Mira's Will by Mary Leapor
On Winter (in Imitation Of An Epistle By Ambrose Philips) by Mary Leapor
The Sacrifice: An Epistle To Celia by Mary Leapor
Epitaph (on A Commonplace Person Who Died In Bed) by Amy Levy
In The Mile End Road by Amy Levy
A London Plane-tree by Amy Levy
London Poets by Amy Levy
The Old House by Amy Levy
Chimes by Alice Meynell
A Dead Harvest (in Kensington Gardens) by Alice Meynell
Mother by Alice Meynell
Parentage by Alice Meynell
Renouncement by Alice Meynell
The Shepherdess by Alice Meynell
Long Was Society O'er-run by Hannah More
The Riot, Or Half A Loaf Is Better Than No Bread by Hannah More
Among His Books by Edith Bland Nesbit
The Gray Folk by Edith Bland Nesbit
Song (2) by Edith Bland Nesbit
Villeggiature by Edith Bland Nesbit
In The Person Of A Lady, To Bajazet, Her Unconstant Gallant by Joan Philips
Maidenhead: Written At The Request Of A Friend by Joan Philips
On A Bashful Shepherd by Joan Philips
To A Proud Beauty by Joan Philips
To One That Asked Me Why I Lov'd J.g. by Joan Philips
An Answer To Another Persuading A Lady To Marriage by Katherine Philips
Epitaph On Her Son H.p. At St. Syth's Church by Katherine Philips
Friendship's Mystery, To My Dearest Lucasia by Katherine Philips
Lucasia, Rosania, And Orinda Parting At A Fountain by Katherine Philips
To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship by Katherine Philips
To The Queen Of Inconstancy, Regina Collier by Katherine Philips
Dol And Roger by Laetitia (van Lewen) Pilkington
Fair And Softly Goes Far Or, The Wary Physician by Laetitia (van Lewen) Pilkington
A Song by Laetitia (van Lewen) Pilkington
Song by Laetitia (van Lewen) Pilkington
The Wish, By A Young Lady by Laetitia (van Lewen) Pilkington
Amor Mundi by Christina Georgina Rossetti
A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Echo by Christina Georgina Rossetti
From The Antique (2) by Christina Georgina Rossetti
In An Artist's Studio by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Remember by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Thread Of Life by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Up-hill by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The World by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Expostulation by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Forgo The Charming Muses! No, In Spite by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles, Sels. by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: Blushing by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: Daughters Of Jerusalem by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: Fruitful Tree by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: Spiteful Foxes by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: Spousa by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
A Paraphrase On The Canticles: The Bridegroom by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
To Celinda by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
To Oresetes by Elizabeth Singer Rowe
Invocation, To The Genius Of Slumber Written Oct. 1787 by Anna Seward
Scene by Anna Seward
Verses Inviting Mrs. C- To Tea On A Public Fast-day, 1791 by Anna Seward
Elegiac Sonnet: 44. Written In The Church Yard At Middleton In Sussex by Charlotte (turner) Smith
I Once Was Happy, When While Yet A Child by Charlotte (turner) Smith
On The Aphorism: L'amitie Est L'amour Sans Ailes by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Thirty Eight. Addressed To Mrs. H -- Y. by Charlotte (turner) Smith
Recreation by Jane Taylor
The Squire's Pew by Jane Taylor
The Author Maketh Her Will & Testament: A Communication ... by Isabella Whitney
The Author Maketh Her Will & Testament: The Manner Of ... by Isabella Whitney
Ye Virgins That From Cupid's Tents by Isabella Whitney
Floating Island [at Hawkshead, An Incident ...] by Dorothy Wordsworth
Grasmere - A Fragment by Dorothy Wordsworth
Thoughts On My Sick Bed by Dorothy Wordsworth
The Lover: A Ballad by Mary Wortley Montagu
A Receipt To Cure The Vapours by Mary Wortley Montagu
Six Town Eclogues: Saturday; The Small-pox by Mary Wortley Montagu
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 101 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 24 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 39 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 40 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 68 by Mary Sidney Wroth
Pamphilia To Amphilanthus: 9 by Mary Sidney Wroth
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

About this edition

• Publisher: Carcanet Pr
• ISBN 10: 0856358940
• ISBN 13: 9780856358944
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Pritchard R. E.