18th Century · English
Poems
Chapters
- 01AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH of MISS M—s.verse
- 02RUMORA; OR, THE MAID OF RAASA.verse
- 03ELEGY. TO ALMERIA.verse
- 04INVOCATION TO OBLIVION. TO ROBERT MERRY, ESQ.verse
- 05TO MISS — OF DUBLIN, ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER.verse
- 06TO MIRANDA, ON HER DETERMINING TO ASSUME THE VEIL.verse
- 07EPITAPH ON G. R. BERKELEY, ESQ. TO MRS. GEORGE BERKELEY, HIS MOTHER.verse
- 08EPITAPH ON AN UNFORTUNATE LADY. TO THE REV. GEORGE GLEIG, A.M.verse
- 09IMPROMPTU, ON HEARING, AS HE WAS RISING IN THE MORNING, OF THE DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN DUNCOMBE, M.A. INSCRIBED TO MRS. DUNCOMBE, OF CANTERBURY.verse
- 10THE VIRGIN'S MIDNIGHT HYMN, SUPPOSED TO BE SUNG BY A CHORUS OF NUNS AT BRUSSELS, IN THE YEAR 1786, WHEN THE AUTHOR WAS THERE. INSCRIBED TO THE HON. MISS MOLESWORTHS, DAUGHTERS OF LORD MOLESWORTH, AND TO MISS HORNES, DAUGHTERS OF THE BISHOP OF NORWICH.verse
- 11EVENING, A PASTORAL. TO HENRY GRIMSTON, ESQ. OF YORKSHIRE.verse
- 12SONG. TO ALMERIA.verse
- 13ELEGIAC BALLAD. TO HENRY M'KENZIE ESQ.verse
- 14TO MIRANDA.verse
- 15VERSES ON THE DUTCHESS OF RUTLAND'S PREFERRING MR. PETERS. TO GEORGE ATKINSON, M.D.verse
- 16ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF LADY JANE GRAY AND MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. TO JUDITH LADY LAURIE.verse
- 17ADDRESS TO THE WINDS. SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY A LADY DURING THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER.verse
- 18TO MIRANDA, ON THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER-IN-LAW THE EARL OF L—.verse
- 19THE MAIDS OF MORVEN, AN ELEGIAC ODE. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MARY VISCOUNTESS RUTHVEN, DAUGHTER OF THE EXCELLENT EARL AND COUNTESS OF LEVEN AND MELVIL.verse
- 20ADDRESS TO THE SHADE OF SHAKSPEARE. ON MRS. B—'S VISITING HIS TOMB IN COMPANY WITH THE WRITER OF THESE LINES, AUGUST 13, 1787.verse
- 21STANZAS WRITTEN AT THE TOMB OF SHAKSPEARE.verse
- 22VERSES ON SEEING THE TRAGEDY OF THE REGENT. TO BERTIE GREATHEAD, ESQ.verse
- 23THE BANKS OF ALMOND. (VIDE PENNANT'S TOUR.)verse
- 24VERSES ON MRS. BILLINGTON'S APPEARANCE AT OXFORD. TO THOMAS BARRETT LENNARD, ESQ.verse
- 25THE POWER OF LOVE. TO ROBERT BERKELEY, ESQ. JUNIOR, OF SPETCHLEY PARK, WORCESTERSHIRE.verse
- 26INVOCATION TO CUPID. TO FREDERICK REYNOLDS, ESQ.verse
- 27INSCRIPTION FOR A GOTHIC NICHE LINED WITH IVY, IN THE GARDEN OF DR. BERKELEY'S PREBENDAL HOUSE IN THE OAKS AT CANTERBURY, WHERE MR. BERKELEY USED TO SIT AND READ GREEK. THE LADIES OF THE FAMILY NAMED IT “THE GREEK SEAT.”verse
- 28THE BIRTH OF BLISS. TO THE HONOURABLE GEORGE LESLIE, SON OF THE EARL OF LEVEN, &c.verse
- 29INSCRIPTION FOR THE FRONT OF SINGLETON ABBEY. TO MISS MALTHUS'S, THE BELOVED, THE RESPECTED FRIENDS OF HIS EARLY YOUTH.verse
- 30THE FAIRIES. TO MISS GRIMSTON, YOUNGEST SISTER OF THOMAS GRIMSTON, ESQ. OF GRIMSTON, YORKSHIRE.verse
- 31THE IMMORTALITY OF VIRTUE. TO MRS. FRINSHAM.verse
- 32TO A NIGHTINGALE IN CLIFDEN WOOD. TO MRS. D. MONCK, OF COOKHAM.verse
- 33FAREWELL STANZAS ON LEAVING COOKHAM, IN THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, 1781, WHEN MR. B. WAS NOT QUITE EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD, TWO YEARS AFTER HE LEFT ETON-SCHOOL.verse
- 34THE AUTHOR. TO ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ.verse
- 35STANZAS ON PAINTING. TO THE REVEREND WILLIAM PETERS, LL.B.verse
- 36ODE TO LOVE. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY DUDLEY AND WARD.verse
- 37ODE TO CONSCIENCE. TO MRS. YEARSLEY.verse
- 38ODE TO TRAGEDY. TO MRS. SIDDONS.verse
- 39ODE TO GENIUS. TO THE REV. WILLIAM MASON, A.M. PRECENTOR OF THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF YORK.verse
- 40PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY THE AUTHOR, ON OPENING THE NEW THEATRE AT BLENHEIM, OCTOBER 1787. TO THEIR GRACES THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF MARLBOROUGH.verse
- 41PROLOGUE TO BONDS WITHOUT JUDGEMENT, OR THE LOVES OF BENGAL.verse
- 42SONG. SUNG BY A CHORUS OF PEASANTS.verse
- 43LUCY, OR THE BANKS OF AVON. WRITTEN AT THE AGE OF SEVENTEEN, AND NEVER MEANT BY MR. B. FOR THE PUBLIC EYE.verse
- 44THE RAPE OF THE WIG. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1782.verse