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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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II.

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SONNET III. WRITTEN AT BUXTON IN A RAINY SEASON.

IV.

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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VIII.

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X.

SONNET X. TO HONORA SNEYD.

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XII.

XIII.

XIV.

XV.

SONNET XV. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD.

XVI.

SONNET XVI. TRANSLATED FROM BOILEAU.

XVII.

XVIII.

SONNET XVIII. AN EVENING IN NOVEMBER,

XIX.

SONNET XIX. TO ---

XX.

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

XXI.

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.

XXX.

XXXI.

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.

XL.

SONNET XL. DECEMBER MORNING.

XLI.

SONNET XLI. INVITATION TO A FRIEND.

XLII.

XLIII.

XLIV.

XLV.

XLVI.

XLVII.

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

XLVIII.

XLIX.

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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.

LIV.

SONNET LIV. A PERSIAN KING TO HIS SON.

LV.

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

LVI.

SONNET LVI. TO A TIMID YOUNG LADY,

LVII.

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

LVIII.

LIX.

SONNET LIX. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LADY MARIANNE CARNEGIE,

LX.

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.

SONNET 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.

XC.

SONNET XC. SUBJECT CONTINUED.

XCI.

XCII.

XCIII.

XCIV.

XCV.

XCVI.

XCVII.

SONNET XCVII. TO A COFFIN-LID.

XCVIII.

XCIX.

SONNET XCIX. ON THE VIOLENT THUNDER STORMS.

C.

SONNET C. WRITTEN DECEMBER 1790.

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SONNET LXXIV.

In sultry noon when youthful Milton lay,
Supinely stretch'd beneath the poplar shade,
Lured by his form, a fair Italian maid
Steals from her loitering chariot, to survey
The slumbering charms, that all her soul betray.
Then, as coy fears th' admiring gaze upbraid,
Starts;—and these lines, with hurried pen pourtray'd,
Slides in his half-clos'd hand;—and speeds away.—
“Ye eyes, ye human stars!—if, thus conceal'd
“By sleep's soft veil, ye agitate my heart,
“Ah! what had been its conflict if reveal'd
“Your rays had shone!”—Bright nymph, thy strains impart
Hopes, that impel the graceful bard to rove,
Seeking thro' Tuscan vales his visionary love.

This romantic circumstance of our great Poet's juvenility was inserted, as a well known fact, in one of the General Evening Posts in the Spring 1789, and it was there supposed to have formed the first impulse of his Italian journey.