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Poems, on various subjects

by Ann Yearsley ... being her second work

Yearsley, Ann (1753-1806)

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ADDRESSED TO SENSIBILITY.

ON THE DEATH OF HER GRACE, The Duchess Dowager of PORTLAND.

TO A SENSIBLE BUT PASSIONATE FRIEND.

TO THE BRISTOL MARINE SOCIETY.

FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A FRIEND,

To Mr. V---, On his pronouncing the Author to be in Love, when she wrote the preceding.

EPITAPH, ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUTH,

ELEGY, Written on the Banks of the Avon, where the Author took a last Farewel of her Brother.

TO MISS ELIZA DAWSON, OF OXTON, YORKSHIRE.

TO INDIFFERENCE.

To those who accuse the Author of Ingratitude.

TO FREDERICK YEARSLEY,

ON THE DEATH OF FREDERICK YEARSLEY.

ODE, TO MISS SHIELLS, ON HER ART OF PAINTING.

Lines, composed in a Carriage, on seeing an Half-blown Primrose in the Mouth of a Peasant; the Author being on the Road to Bath.

To Mr. ---, an unlettered Poet, on GENIUS UNIMPROVED.

ON BEING PRESENTED WITH A SILVER PEN.

ADDRESSED TO IGNORANCE,

ADDRESSED TO REVENGE.

THE MATERIALIST.

ON JEPHTHAH'S VOW,

WRITTEN ON A VISIT.

ELEGY, ON MR. CHATTERTON.

On being introduced to a Gentleman, who had laboured under an Affliction sixteen Years.

ON THE REMEMBRANCE OF A MOTHER.

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ON THE DEATH OF FREDERICK YEARSLEY.

Obdurate angel! spare my Fred'rick's heart;
Ah, yet forbear! Behold the infant smile!
His innocence will dull thy barbed dart,
And ev'ry horror of its sting beguile.

Oh clasp him not within thine icy arms!
But give him to my tender warm embrace;
Let me but breathe upon his op'ning charms,
And call the flying beauties to his face.

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Down! down! he sinks on Death's ungentle breast,
Nor lists attentive to the voice of Fame;
While Glory weeping, from his infant crest,
Bears back to Bristol his too mighty name.

Distinguish'd Babe, farewel! a few short years,
And I will meet thee on a happier shore;
Thy angel smile shall there repay my tears,
Then shall this anguish of the soul be o'er.