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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

By Anna Williams

Williams, Anna (1706-1783)

ESSAYS IN VERSE AND PROSE.

The ANT.

A SONNET. TO A LADY OF INDISCREET VIRTUE.

To CLARA.

THE ROSE.

THE VALLEY OF THE MOON.

To MISS ---

The CAUTION.

To MYRTILIS.

[HERE Pollio lies, whose contemplations fir'd]

The HAPPY LIFE.

On a YOUNG LADY Confined to her Chamber by Sickness.

AN EPITAPH ON CLAUDY PHILLIPS, A MUSICIAN.

The WISH.

TO CLEORA ON HER ABSENCE.

The TRUE HERO.

VERSES addressed to Mr. RICHARDSON, ON HIS HISTORY of Sir CHARLES GRANDISON.

To Miss S. GREY. ON HER SINGING.

EPITAPH ON MR. WORRAL OF WORCESTERSHIRE.

To MARCUS.

Occasioned by the Marriage of MISS --- and Mr. ---.

AN ITALIAN SONG, SUNG BY MRS. MINGOTTI, At the Beginning of the late War, TRANSLATED.

On the DEATH of STEPHEN GREY, F. R. S.

On the DEATH of Sir ERASMUS PHILIPPS,

The EXCURSION.

An ODE.

An ODE, ON THE DEATH of the Patriot MARCUS.

THE PETITION.

REFLECTIONS

The HAPPY SOLITUDE, OR THE WISHED RETIREMENT.

BOILEAU to his GARDENER.

An ODE ON FRIENDSHIP.

To LAURA:

A TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN EPITAPH On Sir THOMAS HANMER.

THE UNINHABITED ISLAND. FROM THE ITALIAN OF METASTASIO.

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TO CLEORA ON HER ABSENCE.

I

The northern climes to clouds and frost
When the departing sun resigns,
In half a year of darkness lost,
The chill inhabitant repines.

II

Regretted thus Cleora flies,
Fair source of love and joy and mirth,
Withdraws the influence of those eyes
That give ten thousand pleasures birth.

III

Not long the happy Scythians mourn,
Revolving suns the loss repay;
O would Cleora thus return,
And bless me with continued day!