The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]
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The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]
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[Boston] :: Printed at the Apollo Press, in Boston, by Belknap and Hall. Sold at their office State Street, and at the several bookstores.,
MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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CONTENTS.
THE Adieu and Recal to Love 1
To Della Crusca 3
To Anna Matilda 5
To Della Crusca 8
To Anna Matilda 10
Elegy, written on the plain of Fontenoy 13
Stanzas to Della Crusca 17
To Anna Matilda 22
To Della Crusca 26
Ode to Prudence 29
Ode to Death 32
Elegy on the Thirty-first of December 35
Invocation to Horror 39
To Anna Matilda 43
To Reuben 44
Ode to Mrs. Siddons 49
Ode to Simplicity 52
Ode to Miss Farren 55
The Slaves, an Elegy 58
Monody 63
Ode to Indifference 67
Ode to Anna Matilda 71
Ode to Della Crusca 76
To Anna Matilda 79
To Della Crusca 82
To Anna Matilda 89
To Della Crusca 94
A Tale for Jealousy 99
Ambitious Vengeance. A Tragic Drama. 113
Stanzas on Friendship 163
Verses to a young Lady at Bath 166
The Complaint 168
Ode. To ***** 172
Prayer to Venus 174
Complimentary Verses 176
Stanzas on Lady Craven's Children 177
The Retrospect 179
Stanzas to Ill Nature 183
The Confession 187
Prologue to the Comedy of the Provok'd Husband 189
The Invitation 191
Stanzas on a young Lady's Birth Day 195
Lines sent to a Friend with a Watch 197
Song, addressed to a young Lady 199
Ballad, founded on Fact 201
To Laura 208
Elegy 211
Love renew'd. A Sonnet 215
Characteristic Song 217
The Repentance of Passion 219
Diversity, a Poem 224
Sonnet. To the Muse 241
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Sonnet. To Melissa's Lips 242
The Valentine of Hopeless Love 243
Melissa's Retire|ment 244
To May 245
To Melissa 246
To Do. 247
The Invitation 248
Melissa 249
To the River Usk 250
To General Elliott 251
Parting address to Della Crusca 252
The African Boy 254
To Miss Farren 257
The Voice we love 258
Henry deceived 261
To Emma 267
Monologue 270
A Fragment 273
On Miss Farren's Portrait 275
General Conway's Elegy on Miss C. Campbell 276
Epitaph on Do. 279
Marquis Townshend's vers|es on Miss Gardiner 281
To Anna Matilda 283
To Him who will under|stand it 287
To Laura 291
To Della Crusca 294
Laura to Anna Matilda 299
To Anna Matilda 303
To Della Crusca 308
The Interview 313
To Philander 319
To A—e B—n 323
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