The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]

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Title
The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]
Publication
[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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Subject terms
Merry, Robert, 1755-1798 -- Portraits.
Cowley, -- Mrs. -- (Hannah), 1743-1809 -- Portraits.
Poems -- 1793.
Anthologies.
Plays -- 1793.
Link to this Item
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19757.0001.001
Cite this Item
"The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]." In the digital collection Evans Early American Imprint Collection. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19757.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2025.

Pages

Page [unnumbered]

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
  • ...

Page [unnumbered]

  • 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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