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The rural lyre

a volume of poems ... by Ann Yearsley

Yearsley, Ann (1753-1806)

FAMILIAR POEM TO MILO, AN AGED FRIEND, WHO WISHED THE AUTHOR RICHES.

ELEGY SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF LORD WILLIAM RUSSEL .

SOLILOQUY.

THE CONSUL C. FANNIUS TO FANNIUS DIDIUS.

FAMILIAR POEM FROM NISA TO FULVIA OF THE VALE.

FAMILIAR POEM FROM CAIUS FANNIUS TO PLAUTUS.

REMONSTRANCE IN THE PLATONIC SHADE, FLOURISHING ON AN HEIGHT.

ADDRESS TO FRIENDSHIP;

PAROXYSM OF THE MOMENT.

TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES SHIELLS, ESQ.

THE CAPTIVE LINNET.

SONNET TO ---.

SONNET TO THE SAME, WRITTEN AT MORN, ON ST. VINCENT'S ROCK, BRISTOL HOT-WELLS.

THE GENIUS OF ENGLAND,

BRISTOL ELEGY.

EXTEMPORE ON HEARING A GENTLEMAN PLAY A HYMN ON HIS FLUTE, THURSDAY JULY THE THIRTY-FIRST, ELEVEN AT NIGHT, MDCCXCV. NEAR THE AUTHOR's WINDOW AT BRISTOL WELLS.

TO MIRA, ON THE CARE OF HER INFANT.

PRAYER AND RESIGNATION.

TO THE LORD BISHOP OF EXETER

THE INDIFFERENT SHEPHERDESS TO COLIN.

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I wander on, to rural scenes resign'd;
Nor fear the tempests of the furious mind:
For when to transient shelter I am driv'n,
Phœbus awakes that ardour due to Heav'n.