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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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EPITAPH, ON THE SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ACCOMPLISHED YOUTH,

(Designed for a Tomb-Stone.)

“Death (deem'd abrupt) sits on my mortal frame;
“But can aught fall as sudden from a God?
“Does not his pitying eye in mercy view
“Man in his swift progression? What avails
“The early year, or date of lengthen'd age?
“Merely to live, boasts a Creator's hand,
“And life's first moment stamp'd my soul immortal.

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“Then trust Infinity, ye weeping friends,
“Nor spend that moment, in a fruitless sigh,
“Which to your soul belongs; already lodg'd
“Beyond the grasp of Death; my warfare's o'er,
“Then mourn but for yourselves, and own a God.”