Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson / [Lucretia Maria Davidson] [electronic text]

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Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson / [Lucretia Maria Davidson] [electronic text]
Author
Davidson, Lucretia Maria, 1808-1825
Editor
Davidson, Margaret Miller, 1787-1844
Publication
Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard
1843
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"Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson / [Lucretia Maria Davidson] [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD1940.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 29, 2025.

Pages

Page [xiii]

CONTENTS.

  • DEDICATION 17
  • BIOGRAPHY 25
  • POETICAL REMAINS 79
  • Address to my Muse 83
  • Amir Khan 99
  • Chicomico 100
  • MISCELLANEOUS PIECES 121
  • Charity 123
  • To Science 123
  • Pleasure 124
  • The Good Shepherd 124
  • Lines, written under the promise of Reward 125
  • To the Memory of H. K. White 126
  • Stilling the Waves 126
  • A Song, in imitation of the Scotch 127
  • Exit from Egyptian Bondage 128
  • Last Flower of the Garden 129
  • Ode to Fancy 130
  • The Blush 131
  • On an Æolian Harp 132
  • The Coquette 133
  • Death of an Infant 134
  • Reflections on Crossing Lake Champlain 135
  • The Star of Liberty 136

Page xiv

  • The Mermaid 137
  • On Solitude 138
  • On the Birth of a Sister 139
  • A Dream 139
  • To my Sister 141
  • Cupid's Bower 142
  • The Family Time-Piece 143
  • On the Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots 145
  • The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah 146
  • Ruth's Answer to Naomi 148
  • David and Jonathan 148
  • The Sick Bed 149
  • Death 150
  • To My Mother 150
  • Sabrina, a Volcanic Island, which appeared and disappeared among the Azores, in 1811 151
  • The Prophecy 152
    • Prophecy II. 154
    • Prophecy III. 155
  • Byron 156
  • Feats of Death 156
  • Auction Extraordinary 158
  • The Bachelor 159
  • The Guardian Angel 160
  • On the Crew of a Vessel who were found Dead at Sea 161
  • Woman's Love 163
  • To a Lady, whose singing resembled that of an absent Sister 164
  • To my Friend and Patron, M— K—, Esq. 165
  • On seeing a Picture of the Virgin Mary, painted several centuries since 166
  • American Poetry 168
  • Headache 169
  • To a Star 169
  • Song of Victory for the Death of Goliath 170
  • The Indian Chief and Conconay 171
  • The Mother's Lament for her Infant 174

Page xv

  • On the Motto of a Seal 175
  • Morning 176
  • Shakspeare 177
  • To a Friend 177
  • The Fear of Madness 178
  • Maritorne, or the Pirate of Mexico 179
  • America 187
  • Lines addressed to a Cousin 189
  • Modesty 190
  • A View of Death 190
  • Rob Roy's reply to Francis Osbaldistone 191
  • To a Lady recovering from Sickness 192
  • The Vision 192
  • On seeing, at a Concert, the public performance of a Female Dwarf 195
  • On seeing a young Lady at her Devotions 196
  • Alonzo and Imanel 197
  • To Margaret's Eye 199
  • To a young Lady, whose Mother was Insane from her Birth 199
  • Song, tune Mrs. Robinson's Farewell 201
  • Song 202
  • Twilight. 202
  • On the Death of Queen Caroline 203
  • On the Death of the beautiful Mrs. — 204
  • The White Maid of the Rock 205
  • The Wee Flower of the Heather 206
  • To my Dear Mother in Sickness 207
  • An Acrostic (Moon, Sun) 208
  • Habakkuk 3d, 6th 208
  • On reading a fragment called the Flower of the Forest 209
  • Zante 209
  • The Yellow Fever 212
  • Kindar Burial Service-Versified 213
  • The Grave 214
  • Ruins of Palmyra 214
  • The Wide World is Drear 215

Page xvi

  • Farewell to Miss E. B. 216
  • The Army of Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai 217
  • The Garden of Gethsemane 218
  • The Tempest God 219
  • To a Departing Friend 219
  • The Parting of De Courcy and Wilhelmine 220
  • Love, Joy, and Pleasure, an allegory 225
  • ...My Last Farewell to my Harp 228
  • SPECIMENS OF PROSE COMPOSITION 231
  • Columbus 233
  • Alphonso in Search of Learning 235
  • Sensibility 240
  • The Holy Writings 241
  • Charity 243
  • Remarks on the Immorality of the Stage 244
  • Contemplation of the Heavens 245
  • The Origin of Chivalry 247
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