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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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TRIBUTARY POEMS.
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
IMPROMPTU TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
SONNET TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
SONNET TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
SONNET TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
IMPROMPTU. TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
BOUQUET FOR MRS. ROBINSON, AN IMPROMPTU,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON.
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON, ON HER VISITING BATH IN ILL HEALTH.
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON,
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. ROBINSON.
  
A STRANGER MINSTREL.
  
IMPROMPTU ON MRS. ROBINSON
  
TO MRS. ROBINSON.
  
LINES ADDRESSED TO MRS. ROBINSON.
  
TO THE MEMORY OF MRS. ROBINSON.
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POEMS, &c.
  
PETRARCH TO LAURA.
  
AINSI VA LE MONDE. INSCRIBED TO A FRIEND.
  
SIGHT.
  
SOLITUDE.
  
THE PROGRESS OF MELANCHOLY,
  
THE CAVERN OF WOE.
  
MONODY
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ODES.
  
ODE TO THE MUSE.
  
ODE TO DELLA CRUSCA.
  
ODE TO GENIUS.
  
ODE TO REFLECTION.
  
ODE TO ENVY.
  
ODE TO HEALTH.
  
ODE TO VANITY.
  
ODE TO MELANCHOLY.
  
ODE TO DESPAIR.
  
ODE TO THE SNOW-DROP.
  
ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
SECOND ODE TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
  
ODE TO BEAUTY.
  
ODE TO ELOQUENCE.
  
ODE TO THE MOON.
  
ODE TO MEDITATION.
  
ODE TO VALOUR.
  
ODE TO THE MEMORY OF MY LAMENTED FATHER,
  
ODE TO NIGHT.
  
ODE TO HOPE.
  
ODE TO HUMANITY.
  
ODE TO THE HARP OF LOUISA.
  
TO THE MUSE OF POETRY.
  
TO THE BLUE BELL.
  
NEGLECT.
  
ODE TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER,
  
ODE TO WINTER.
  
HORATIAN ODE.
  
ODE FOR THE 18th OF JANUARY, 1794.
  
TO PEACE: FROM THE “SHRINE OF BERTHA,”
  
ODE IN IMITATION OF POPE.
  
TO APATHY.
  
ODE TO THE SUN-BEAM.
  
BEAUTY's GRAVE.
  
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
  
ODE INSCRIBED TO THE INFANT SON OF S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq.
  
TO THE POET COLERIDGE.
  
LINES TO THE REV. J. WHITEHOUSE.
  
TO THE DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.
  
LINES INSCRIBED TO P. DE LOUTHERBOURG, Esq. R. A.
  
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF GARRICK.
  
MONODY TO THE MEMORY OF CHATTERTON.
  
ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WERTER.
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THE SICILIAN LOVER,
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
 III. 
SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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ACT II.
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SCENE V.
 VI. 
SCENE VI.
 VII. 
SCENE VII.
 VIII. 
SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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ACT III.
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SCENE X.
 XI. 
SCENE XI.
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ACT IV.
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SCENE XII.
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SCENE XIII.
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ACT V.
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SCENE XIV.
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SCENE XV.
 XVI. 
SCENE XVI.
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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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THE PROGRESS OF LIBERTY.
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BOOK THE FIRST.
 2. 
BOOK THE SECOND.
  
A MONODY
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SAPPHO AND PHAON: IN A SERIES OF LEGITIMATE SONNETS.
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SONNET INTRODUCTORY.
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SONNET II.
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SONNET III.
 IV. 
SONNET IV.
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SONNET V.
 VI. 
SONNET VI.
 VII. 
SONNET VII.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII.
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SONNET IX.
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SONNET X.
 XI. 
SONNET XI.
 XII. 
SONNET XII.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV.
 XV. 
SONNET XV.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVIII.
 XIX. 
SONNET XIX.
 XX. 
SONNET XX.
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SONNET XXI.
 XXII. 
SONNET XXII.
 XXIII. 
SONNET XXIII.
 XXIV. 
SONNET XXIV.
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SONNET XXV.
 XXVI. 
SONNET XXVI.
 XXVII. 
SONNET XXVII.
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SONNET XXVIII.
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SONNET XXIX.
 XXX. 
SONNET XXX.
 XXXI. 
SONNET XXXI.
 XXXII. 
SONNET XXXII.
 XXXIII. 
SONNET XXXIII.
 XXXIV. 
SONNET XXXIV.
 XXXV. 
SONNET XXXV.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET XXXVII.
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SONNET XXXVIII.
 XXXIX. 
SONNET XXXIX.
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SONNET XL.
 XLI. 
SONNET XLI.
 XLII. 
SONNET XLII.
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SONNET XLIII. CONCLUSIVE.
  
SONNET. TO AMICUS.
  
SONNET. TO INDEPENDENCE.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET. TO MY BELOVED DAUGHTER.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET. THE PEASANT.
  
SONNET. TO INGRATITUDE.
  
SONNET. TO EVENING.
  
SONNET. THE MARINER.
  
SONNET. TO PHILANTHROPY.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET. LAURA TO PETRACH.
  
SONNET. THE TEAR.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET. TO LIBERTY.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET.
  
SONNET. TO AMICUS.
  
STANZAS.
  
CUPID SLEEPING.
  
LINES FROM ANGELICA.
  
TO HIM
  
THE ADMONITION.
  
THE WAY TO KEEP HIM.
  
IMPROMPTU.
  
TO ARABELLA!
  
TASTE AND FASHION.
  
IMPROMPTU ON ------.
  
FAIRY RHYMES.
  
TITANIA'S ANSWER TO OBERON.
  
THE FORTUNE-TELLER.
  
POOR MARGUERITE.
  
THE CONFESSOR.
  
EDMUND's WEDDING.
  
THE ALIEN BOY.
  
THE GRANNY GREY.
  
GOLFRE.
  
JASPER.
  
LONDON's SUMMER MORNING.
  
LINES.
  
LESBIA AND HER LOVER.
  
TO JEALOUSY.
  
TO A FRIEND
  
A REFLECTION.
  
THE POET's GARRET.
  
To JOHN TAYLOR, Esq.
  
LINES
  
THE ANSWER.
  
TO LEONARDO.
  
THE SNAKE AND THE LINNET. A FABLE.
  
ODE.
  
LINES
  
THE SWAN.
  
LINES
  
STANZAS WRITTEN FOR “THE SHRINE OF BERTHA.”
  
STANZAS.
  
STANZAS. FROM “THE SHRINE OF BERTHA.”
  
THE MISER.
  
STANZAS PRESENTED WITH A GOLD CHAIN RING TO A ONCE DEAR FRIEND.
  
A FRAGMENT.
  
TO THE MAY FLY.
  
JANUARY, 1795.
  
IMPROMPTU
  
MADRIGAL.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
STANZAS.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
MORNING. ANACREONTIC.
  
MALE FASHIONS FOR 1799.
  
FEMALE FASHIONS FOR 1799.
  
ANACREONTIC.
  
STANZAS TO A FRIEND WHO WISHED TO HAVE MY PORTRAIT.
  
THE OLD BEGGAR.

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190

NEGLECT.

Ah! cold neglect! more chilling far
Than Zembla's blast or Scythia's snow;
Sure born beneath a luckless star
Is he who, after ev'ry pain
Has wrung his bosom's tend'rest vein,
To fill his bitter cup of woe,
Is destin'd thee to know.
The smiles of fame, the pride of truth,
All that can lift the glowing mind,
The noblest energies of youth,
Wit, Valour, Genius, Science, taste!
A form by all that's lovely grac'd,
A soul where virtue dwells enshrin'd,
A prey to thee we find!
191

The spring of life looks fresh and gay,
The flow'rs of fancy bud around,
We think that ev'ry morn is May;
While Hope and rapture fill the breast,
We hold reflection's loss a jest,
Nor own that sorrow's shaft can wound,
Till cold neglect is found.
Ah! then, how sad the world appears,
How false, how idle are the gay!
Morn only breaks to witness tears,
And ev'ning closes but to shew
That darkness mimics human woe,
And life's best dream a summer day
That shines and fades away.
Some dread disease and others' woe!
Some visionary torments see;
Some shrink unpitied love to know,
Some writhe beneath oppression's fangs,
And some with jealous, hopeless pangs;
But whatsoe'er my fate may be,
O! keep neglect from me!
192

E'en after death let Mem'ry's hand,
Directed by the moonlight ray,
Weave o'er my grave a cypress band,
And bind the sod with curious care,
And scatter flow'rets fresh and fair,
And oft the sacred tribute pay,
To keep Neglect away!
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