Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged

ALICIA D'ANVERS ANNA HUME Astrea authoress beams beauty beneath blest bloom Born bower breast breath bright brow Charlotte Smith charms cheek cheerful CONSTANTIA GRIERSON crown'd dart daughter dear death delight died divine dost doth drest ELIZABETH TOLLET eyes fair fancy fate fear fill'd flowers fond gale gentle gloom glow grace green grief groves hail haste heart heaven HESTER CHAPONE honour hope JANE BRERETON lady light Lord lov'd lover maid MARY LEAPOR melancholy mind Mirth mournful Muse ne'er night nymph o'er pain pale passion pleas'd pleasure poems queen rise rose round roving mind Saint Monica scorn shade shew shine sigh silent sing six crickets smile soft SONG sorrow soul Spring stream SUSANNA CENTLIVRE sweet swelling tears thee THENOT thine thou thought thro trembling Twas verse vex'd voice Whilst wife wind youth