Poems.

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Title
Poems.
Author
Temple, Laura Sophia.
Publication
London: Printed for R. Phillips
1805
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"Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/TempLPoems. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

Pages

CONTENTS.

  • Recollection 1
  • To my First Friend 12
  • Summer, a Pastoral 17
  • The Search after Love 20
  • Lines written on seeing a Lark
       ascending to a great height,
       one fine morning in Summer 22
  • The Hindoo Lover's address to the Evening Breeze 25
  • On hearing the sound of Music at a Distance 31
  • Stanzas supposed to have been
       written by Mary, Queen of
       Scots, during her confinement 34
  • Arabian Song 37
  • At the sight of a beautiful but frail Fair One 39
  • The Last Adieu 45
  • The Inconstant 51
  • Yesterday 53
  • To-Morrow 56
  • Solitary Musings 59
  • The Victim of Seduction 62
  • Dreams of the Morning 68
  • The discarded Lover to his Rival 73
  • Morning Walk 76
  • The blind Lover to his Mistress 81
  • Disappointment 84
  • A Persian Ode of the Morning 86
  • The Wanderer's Return 89
  • The Sailor­Song 95
  • Glances back 97
  • The Forsaken Husband 100
  • Hope's Invitation 103
  • Sonnet 1 110
  • [Sonnet] 2 112
  • [Sonnet] 3 113
  • [Sonnet] 4 114
  • The Outcast 115
  • Things as they seem 120
  • The Murderer 123
  • Mesri and Delilah, a Persian Tale 125
  • Song 130
  • The Exile 131
  • Song 135
  • The Lament 137
  • Lines written on reading
       Young's Night Thoughts­
       Night III, or Narcissa 144
  • Reginald the Brave 147
  • The Death of Love­Song 160
  • To the Genius of Romance 162
  • An Address to Apathy 168
  • Song 172
  • The Lover's Departure 174
  • Lines addressed to my own heart 178
  • Fragments 182‐192

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