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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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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
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VERSES WRITTEN IN DR DARWIN'S BOTANIC GARDEN
  
ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR JOSEPH SYKES, OF WEST-ELLA,
  
CHARITY,
  
MONODY
  
ODE
  
INVOCATION OF THE COMIC MUSE.
  
AMUSEMENTS OF WINTER.
  
BERMUDA,
  
ELEGY ON CAPTAIN COOK.
  
VERSES TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
  
ODE TO THE SUN.
  
VERSES TO CAPTAIN ELIOTT,
  
VERSES Inviting Mrs C—--- to Tea on a public Fast-day,
  
ON THE FUTURE EXISTENCE OF BRUTES.
  
TO MISS SEWARD.
  
MONODY ON MAJOR ANDRE.
  
ODE TO POETIC FANCY.
  
EPISTLE TO CORNELIA.
  
EPISTLE TO Mr ROMNEY,
  
WRITTEN IN THE BLANK PAGE OF THE SORROWS OF WERTER.
  
WRITTEN IN THE TITLE PAGE OF A VOLUME CONTAINING Mr JEPHSON's TRAGEDIES.
  
WRITTEN IN A DIMINUTIVE EDITION OF GRAY'S POEMS.
  
VERSES
  
WRITTEN
  
WITH A LOCK OF THE AUTHOR's HAIR,
  
ON
  
VERSES TO THE CELEBRATED PAINTER, MR WRIGHT, OF DERBY,
  
EPISTLE TO WILLIAM HAYLEY,Esq.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF LADY MILLAR.
  
EPISTLE TO THE REV. DR WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS, OF REPTON, DERBYSHIRE,
  
TO WILLIAM HAYLEY, Esq.
  
ADDRESS TO THE SUN.
  
ADDRESS TO WOMAN.
  
VERSES TO THE Rev. WILLIAM MASON,
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EPITAPHS.
  
INSCRIBED ON THE MONUMENT OF THE Rev. WILLIAM BAGSHOT STEVENS,
  
FOR A MARBLE TABLET IN LICHFIELD CATHEDRATA
  
ON GENERAL SIMCOE.
  
EPISTLE TO F. C. R. MUNDY, Esq.
  
THE RED-BREAST and SPARROW.
  
MOUNT ETNA.
  
EPISTLE TO COLONEL ST. GEORGE.
  
ODE ON TIME.
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LOUISA TO EMMA,
  
SONG OF ROXANA.
  
THE SONG OF ZILLIA.
  
EASTERN ODE
  
DAPHNE's COYNESS ACCOUNTED FOR.
  
VERSES TO Mr. HAYLEY,
  
WRITTEN IN AUTUMN, 1784,
  
COLEBROOK DALE.
  
INDEPENDENT INDUSTRY TRUE VIRTUE.
  
TO THE Rev. JOHN GRANVILLE.
  
EPISTLE TO NATHANIEL LISTER, Esq. OF LICHFIELD,
  
EPISTLE TO GEORGE ROMNEY, Esq.
  
IDYLLIUM.
  
TO Mrs SMITH,
  
ALPINE SCENERY.
  
ODE ON GENERAL ELIOTT's RETURN FROM GIBRALTAR, IN 1787.
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VERSES TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.

See the sky glows!—how fierce the beams of noon
Pour their wide splendours o'er the yellow hill!
But rosy hours fly fast;—dim Autumn soon
Shall, from her drizzling urn, the gay green valley fill.
Pale billows then shall cast a sickly gleam
Through the thin umbrage of the rifled groves;
Whose rustling leaves, thick show'ring, swell the stream,
That drenches the 'lorn mead, and widens as it roves.
With many a rising sigh for pleasures flown
We view the destin'd ravage, cold, and drear;
But let a few frore months be past and gone,
And the sweet hour of prime shall renovate the year.
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But ah! no minstrel of the merry morn
Shall wake to joy the icy sleep of Age;
No purple wreaths the palsied brow adorn,
Or chace of pain and death the desolate presage.
Like broken lustres in the golden West,
Now auburn tints gleam sunny in thy hair;
And Youth's warm spirit, dancing in thy breast,
Looks through thy shining eyes, and animates thy air.
Seize the awaken'd moments—for they speed
Thy light gay bark to Age's torpid wave;
And with th' exalted thought, the generous deed,
Quick, from Oblivion's gulph, thy rescu'd memory save!
The Man, whose name on virtuous lips shall dwell,
Disdains to think the mortal lot severe,
Nor heeds the darkness of the funeral cell;
Fame, and the Summer-Morn shall gild his passage there!
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