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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward

With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes

Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

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SONNET III. WRITTEN AT BUXTON IN A RAINY SEASON.

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SONNET IV. TO HONORA SNEYD,

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SONNET V. TO A FRIEND, WHO THINKS SENSIBILITY A MISFORTUNE.

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SONNET VI. WRITTEN AT LICHFIELD,

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SONNET X. TO HONORA SNEYD.

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XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

SONNET XV. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD.

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SONNET XVI. TRANSLATED FROM BOILEAU.

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XVIII.

SONNET XVIII. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER,

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SONNET XIX. TO ---

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SONNET XX. ON READING A DESCRIPTION OF POPE'S CARDENS AT TWICKENHAM.

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XXII.

SONNET XXII. SUBJECT CONTINUED.

XXIII.

SONNET XXIII. TO MISS E.S.

XXIV.

XXV.

SONNET XXV. PETRARCH to VAUCLUSE.

XXVI.

XXVII.

XXVIII.

XXIX.

SONNET XXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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SONNET XXXI. TO THE DEPARTING SPIRIT OF AN ALIENATED FRIEND.

XXXII.

SONNET XXXII. SUBJECT OF THE PRECEDING SONNET CONTINUED.

XXXIII.

XXXIV.

XXXV.

SONNET XXXV. SPRING.

XXXVI.

SONNET XXXVI. SUMMER.

XXXVII.

SONNET XXXVII. AUTUMN.

XXXVIII.

SONNET XXXVIII. WINTER.

XXXIX.

SONNET XXXIX. WINTER EVENING.

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SONNET XL. DECEMBER MORNING.

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SONNET XLI. INVITATION TO A FRIEND.

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XLIII.

XLIV.

XLV.

XLVI.

XLVII.

SONNET XLVII. ON MR SARGENT'S DRAMATIC POEM, THE MINE.

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SONNET LI. TO SYLVIA,

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LIII.

SONNET LIII. WRITTEN IN THE SPRING 1785 ON THE DEATH OF THE POET LAUREAT.

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SONNET LIV. A PERSIAN KING TO HIS SON.

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SONNET LV. ON THE QUICK TRANSITION FROM WINTER TO SUMMER, IN THE YEAR 1785.

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SONNET LVI. TO A TIMID YOUNG LADY,

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SONNET LVII. WRITTEN THE NIGHT PRECEDING THE FUNERAL OF MRS CHARLES BUCKERIDGE.

LVIII.

LIX.

SONNET LIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARIANNE CARNEGIE,

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LXI.

SONNET LXI. TO MR HENRY CARY,

LXII.

LXIII.

SONNET LXIII. TO COLEBROOKE DALE.

LXIV.

SONNET LXIV. TO MR HENRY CARY,

LXV.

SONNET LXV. TO THE SAME.

LXVI.

LXVII.

LXVIII.

LXIX.

SONNET LXIX. TO A YOUNG LADY,

LXX.

LXXI.

LXXII.

LXXIII.

LXXIV.

LXXV.

LXXVI.

SONNET LXXVI. THE CRITICS OF DR JOHNSON'S SCHOOL.

LXXVII.

LXXVIII.

SONNET LXXVIII.

LXXIX.

LXXX.

LXXXI.

LXXXII.

LXXXIII.

SONNET LXXXIII. ON CATANIA AND SYRACUSE

LXXXIV.

LXXXV.

SONNET LXXXV. TO MARCH.

LXXXVI.

SONNET LXXXVI. TO THE LAKE OF KILLARNEY.

LXXXVII.

SONNET LXXXVII. TO A YOUNG LADY,

LXXXVIII.

SONNET LXXXVIII. THE PROSPECT A FLOODED VALE.

LXXXIX.

SONNET LXXXIX. SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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SONNET XC. SUBJECT CONTINUED.

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XCII.

XCIII.

XCIV.

XCV.

XCVI.

XCVII.

SONNET XCVII. TO A COFFIN-LID.

XCVIII.

XCIX.

SONNET XCIX. ON THE VIOLENT THUNDER STORMS.

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SONNET C. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1790.

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SONNET LI. TO SYLVIA,

ON HER APPROACHING NUPTIALS.

Hope comes to Youth, gliding thro' azure skies
With amaranth crown:—her full robe, snowy white,
Floats on the gale, and our exulting sight
Marks it afar.—From waning life she flies,
Wrapt in a mist, covering her starry eyes
With her fair hand.—But now, in floods of light,
She meets thee, Sylvia, and with glances, bright
As lucid streams, when Spring's clear mornings rise.
From Hymen's kindling torch, a yellow ray
The shining texture of her spotless vest
Gilds;—and the month that gives the early day
The scent odorous, and the carol blest,
Pride of the rising year, enamour'd May,
Paints its redundant folds with florets gay.

Milton, in the Par. Lost, gives the lengthened and harmonious accent to that word, rather than the short, and common one:

—“the bright consummate flower
“Spirit odorous breathes.”