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The Poetical Works of the late Mrs Mary Robinson

including many pieces never before published. In Three Volumes
Robinson, Mary (1758-1800)

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VOL. I.
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VOL. II.
  
THE SAVAGE OF AVEYRON.
  
SIR RAYMOND OF THE CASTLE.
  
DONALD AND MARY.
  
LLWHEN AND GWYNETH.
  
ANSELMO, THE HERMIT OF THE ALPS.
  
BOSWORTH FIELD.
  
THE DOUBLET OF GREY.
  
THE FOSTER-CHILD.
  
THE LADY OF THE BLACK TOWER.
  
ALL ALONE.
  
OLD BARNARD.
  
THE HAUNTED BEACH.
  
THE TRUMPETER.
  
THE POOR SINGING DAME.
  
THE WIDOW'S HOME.
  
MISTRESS GURTON'S CAT.
  
THE LASCAR.
  
THE SHEPHERD'S DOG.
  
DEBORAH'S PARROT.
  
THE MURDERED MAID.
  
THE NEGRO GIRL.
  
THE DESERTED COTTAGE.
  
TO AN INFANT SLEEPING.
  
A MADRIGAL.
  
TO THE WANDERER.
  
STANZAS TO FLORA.
  
STANZAS TO LOVE.
  
LOVE AND REASON.
  
TO A FRIEND.
  
LIFE.
  
TO ------
  
TO A FALSE FRIEND.
  
STANZAS TO A FRIEND.
  
STANZAS.
  
LINES WRITTEN ON THE SEA-COAST.
  
TO POPE'S OAK.
  
STANZAS TO THE ROSE.
  
TO THE MYRTLE.
  
STANZAS.
  
INSCRIBED TO MARIA,
  
LINES TO HIM WHO WILL UNDERSTAND THEM.
  
PASTORAL STANZAS.
  
Written on seeing a Rose still blooming at a Cottage Door on Egham Hill, the 25th of October, 1800.
  
LINES
  
MORNING.
  
STANZAS TO TIME.
  
THE REPLY TO TIME.
  
TO SIMPLICITY.
  
TO ABSENCE.
  
TO CESARIO.
  
STANZAS.
  
WRITTEN ON A FADED BOUQUET.
  
TO THE ASPIN TREE.
  
PITY'S TEAR.
  
STANZAS FROM THE NATURAL DAUGHTER.
  
THE SORROWS OF MEMORY.
  
TO THE MOLE.
  
TO THE WILD BROOK.
  
STANZAS.
  
STANZAS
  
STANZAS ON MAY 1799.
  
STANZAS.
  
STANZAS Supposed to be written near a Tree, over the Grave of AN OFFICER,
  
LINES TO MARIA, MY BELOVED DAUGHTER.
  
THE PILGRIM's FAREWELL.
  
STANZAS Written on the 14th of February, TO MY ONCE DEAR VALENTINE.
  
STANZAS INSCRIBED TO A ONCE DEAR FRIEND, WHEN CONFINED BY SEVERE INDISPOSITION, IN MARCH 1793.
  
TO THE SAME, ON HIS RECOVERING FROM A LONG INDISPOSITION, IN MAY, 1793.
  
THE ADIEU TO FANCY. INSCRIBED TO THE SAME.
  
THE MORALIST.
  
STANZAS TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER,
  
STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER SUCCESSIVE NIGHTS OF MELANCHOLY DREAMS.
  
THE MANIAC.
  
MARIE ANTOINETTE'S LAMENTATION,
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
INVOCATION TO OBERON,
  
TO JULIUS.
  
STANZAS.
  
STANZAS TO HIM WHO SAID, “WHAT IS LOVE?”
  
THE RECANTATION.
  
THE FUGITIVE.
  
THE BIRTH-DAY.
  
THE FISHERMAN.
  
STANZAS.
  
THE WORST OF ILLS.
  
THE GAMESTER.
  
MY NATIVE HOME.
  
THE SUMMER DAY.
  
THE WINTRY DAY.
  
LINES
  
ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY
  
WRITTEN AT BRIGHTON.
  
STANZAS TO REST.
  
A WISH.
  
FAREWEL TO GLENOWEN.
  
TO SPRING.
  
THE EXILE.
  
STANZAS.
  
REFLECTIONS.
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VOL. III.

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STANZAS TO FLORA.

Let others wreaths of roses twine,
With scented leaves of eglantine;
Enamell'd buds and gaudy flow'rs,
The pride of Flora's painted bow'rs;
Such common charms shall ne'er be wove
Around the brows of him I love.
Fair are their beauties for a day,
But swiftly do they fade away;
Each Pink sends forth its choicest sweet
Aurora's warm embrace to meet;
And each inconstant breeze that blows
Steals essence from the musky Rose.
Then lead me, Flora, to the vale,
Where, shelter'd from the fickle gale,
In modest garb, amidst the gloom,
The constant Myrtle sheds perfume;
And hid secure from prying eyes,
In spotless beauty blooms and dies.
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And should its velvet leaves dispense
No pow'rful odours to the sense;
Should no proud tints of gaudy hue
With dazzling lustre pain the view;
Still shall its verdant boughs defy
The northern blast, and wintry sky.
Ah, Venus! should this hand of mine
Steal from thy tree a wreath divine,
Assist me, while I fondly bind
Two hearts, by holy Friendship join'd;
Thy cherish'd branches then shall prove
Sacred to Truth, as well as Love.
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