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

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

• 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

• 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

• 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