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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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STANZAS TO THE ROSE.

Sweet Picture of Life's chequer'd hour!
Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head?
Tell me, oh tell me, hapless flow'r,
Is it because thy charms are fled?
Come, gentle rose, and learn from me
A lesson of Philosophy.
Thy scented buds Life's joys disclose,
They strew our paths with magic sweets,
Where many a thorn like thine, fair Rose,
Full oft the weary wand'rer meets:
And when he sees thy charms depart,
He feels thy thorn within his heart.
When Morn's bright torch illum'd the sky,
Vainly thy flaunting buds display'd
Enamell'd leaves of crimson die,—
Ill-fated blossoms doom'd to fade:
'Tis so with Beauty, hapless flow'r,
Its lustre blooms but for an hour.
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Come, blushing rose, and on my breas
Recline thy gentle head, and die;
Thy scatter'd leaves shall there be press'd,
Bath'd with a tear from Pity's eye:
There shall thy balmy sweets impart
An essence grateful to my heart.
Thus Sympathy, with lenient pow'r,
Shall bid thy fading charms bestow
Soft odours for life's happy hour,
Kind healing balsam for its woe!
If such thy virtues, rose divine!
Oh! may thy envied fate be mine.
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