British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology Book

Maria Abdy (c. 1797-1867)
An Original Thought
My Very Particular Friend
Lucy Aikin (1781-1864)
from Epistles on Women
Jane Austen (1775-1817)
Verses to Rhyme with "Rose"
On a Headache
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
Wind
Thunder
The Kitten
Up! Quit Thy Bower!
Woo'd and Married and A'
Address to a Steam-Vessel
Song ("The gliding fish that takes his play")
The Sun Is Down
Lines to a Teapot
The Maid of Llanwellyn
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825)
The Mouse's Petition
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
A Summer Evening's Meditation
Tomorrow
Inscription for an Ice-House
To the Poor
Washing-Day
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem
Life
The Baby-House
Riddle ("From rosy bowers we issue forth")
Mrs. E. -G. Bayfield (A. 1803-1816)
The Danger of Discontent
Elizabeth Bentley (1767-1839)
To a Redbreast
Matilda Betham (1776-1852)
To Miss Rouse Boughton, Now the Right Hon.
Lady St. John
Sonnet ("Urge me no more!")
To a Llangollen Rose, The Day after It Had
Been Given by Miss Ponsonby
Fragment ("A Pilgrim weary, toil-subdued")
The Daughter
II ("Lucy, I think not of my beauty")
VII ("Come, Magdalen, and bind my hair")
Susanna Blamire (1747-1794)
The Nabob
The Siller Croun
What Ails This Heart o'Mine?
The Chelsea Pensioners
Barley Broth
Stoklewath; or, The Cumbrian Village
Countess of Blessington (1790-1849)
Stock in Trade of Modern Poetesses
Mary Ann Browne (1812-1844)
A World without Water
The Song of the Elements
The Wild Horse
To a Wild Bee
Lady Byron(nee Anne Isabella Milbanke) (1792-1860)
To Ada
Dorothea Primrose Campbell (1793-1863)
The Shetland Fisherman
Ann Candler (1740-1814)
Reflections on My Own Situation
Elizabeth Cobbold (nee Eliza Knipe) (1767-1824)
On the Lake of Windermere
Keswick
The Nurse and the Newspaper
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852)
Poppies
I Was a Brook
Blest Is the Tarn

Milk-White Doe, 'Tis But the Breeze
I Tremble When with Look Benign
The Captive Bird with Ardour Sings
Hannah Cowley (1743-1809)
Monologue
Invocation
Ann Batten Cristall (c. 1768-after 1816)
Written in Devonshire, near the Dart
To a Lady, on the Rise of Morn
Songs of Arla (from "The Enthusias")
Song I ("Wild wing my notes, fierce passions urge the strain")
Song II ("With awe my soul the wreck of Nature views")
Song III ("Impassion'd strains my trembling lips rehearse")
Verses Written in the Spring
A Song of Arla Written during her Enthusiasm
An Ode ("Almighty Power! who rul'st this world of storms!")
    Song on Leaving the Country Early in the Spring
    Catherine Ann Dorset (1750?-1817?)
    The Humble Bee
    To the Lady-Bird
    Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)
    On Chauntry's Statue of Watt in Handsworth
    Church
    To Mrs. Carr
    Laura Leicester
    With a Dyed Silk Quilt Sent to Aunt Ruxton
    Susan Evance (A. 1808-1818)
    Sonnet to Melancholy
    Sonnet Written in a Ruinous Abbey
    Sonnet to a Violet
    Sonnet to the Clouds
    Written during a Storm of Wind
    Catherine Maria Fanshawe (1765-1834)
    A Riddle (" 'Twas in heaven pronounced, and
    'twas muttered in hell")
    Fragment in Iimitation of Wordsworth
    Anne Grant (Mrs. Grant of Laggan) (1755-1838)
    Postscript
    Elizabeth Hands (A. 1789)
    A Poem, on the Supposition of an
    Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper
    A Poem, on the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read
    Written, Originally Extempore, on Seeing a
    Mad Heifer Run through the Village
    A Song ("Ye swains cease to flatter")
    On a Wedding
    The Widower's Courtship
    Mary Hays (1760-1843)
    Invocation to the Nightingale
    Ode to Her Bullfinch
    Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)
    Epitaph on Mr. W —-, a Celebrated
    Mineralogist
    Epitaph on the Hammer of the Aforesaid
    Mineralogist
    The Voice of Spring
    The Messenger Bird
    Bring Flowers
    Troubadour Song
    The Graves of a Household
    The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England
    A Monarch's Death-Bed
    Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death
    Casabianca
    The Wings of the Dove
    The Image in Lava
    The Coronation of Inez de Castro
    Indian Woman's Death-Song
    Arabella Stuart
    The Dreamer
    The Return
    The Painter's Last Work — A Scene
    I Dream of All Things Free
    Mary Howitt (1799-1888)
    The Countess Lamberti
    The Spider and the Fly
    The Voyage with the Nautilus
    Tibbie Inglis, or The Scholar's Wooing
    The Nettle-King
    The Broom-Flower
    A Swinging Song
    The Sea-Gull
    Old Christmas
    The Fairies of the Caldon Low
    Anna Maria Jones (1748-1829)
    Sonnet to the Moon
    Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
    Invocation to Sleep
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838)
    The Oak
    Home
    Another Epistle to Nell
    To My Aunty
    On Reading Lady Mary Montague and Mrs.
    Rowe's Letters
    To a Lady Who Sent the Author Some Paper with a Reading of Sillar's Poems
    Given to a Lady Who Asked Me to Write a Poem
    On Seeing Mr. —— Baking Cakes
    The Month's Love
    Maria Logan (fl. 1793)
    To Opium
    Verses on Hearing That an Airy and Pleasant Situation...Was Surrounded with New
    Buildings
    Christian Milne (1773-after 1816)
    To a Lady, Who Did Me the Honour to Call at
    My House
    Sent with a Flower Pot, Begging a Slip of Geranium
    On a Lady, Who Spoke with Some Ill-Nature
    of the Advertisement of My Little Work in the "Aberdeen Journal"
    To a Gentleman, Desirous of Seeing My
    Manuscripts
    Song ("At eve, when Dee's transparent stream")
    Mary Russell Mitford (1787-1855)
    Winter Scenery, January, 1809
    To Mr. Lucas
    Elizabeth Moody (d. 1814)
    To Dr. Darwin, On Reading His Loves of the Plants
    To Sleep, a Song
    The Housewife; or, The Muse Learning to Ride the Great Horse Heroic
    Hannah More (1745-1833)
    The Black Slave Trade. A Poem
    Countess of Morley (1781-1857)
    A Party of Pleasure up the River Tamer
    Epilogue
    Carolina, Baroness Nairne (1766-1845)
    The Laird o' Cockpen
    Caller Herrin'
    The Lass o' Gowrie
    John Tod
    The Land o' the Leal
    Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
    I Do Not Love Thee
    The Faithless Knight
    We Have Been Friends Together
    The Arab's Farewell to His Horse
    Henrietta O'Neill (1758-1793)
    Ode to the Poppy
    Amelia Opie (1769-1853)
    Ode: Written on the Opening of the Last
    Campaign
    Stanzas Written under Aeolus's Harp
    Allen Brooke, of Windermere
    An Evening Walk at Cromer
    Song ("I know you false")
    Song ("Go, youth beloved")
    The Despairing Wanderer
    Isabel Pagan (c. 1741-1821)
    Ca' the Ewes to the Knowes
    The Crook and Plaid
    Account of the Author's Lifetime
    A New Love Song, with the Answer
    The Answer
    On Burns and Ramsay
    A Letter
    The Spinning Wheel
    A Love Letter
    Muirkirk Light Weights
    Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
    To the Nightingale
    Song of a Spirit
    Sunset
    The First Hour of Morning
    Sonnet ("Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve")
    To Melancholy
    The Sea-Nymph
    Rondeau
    Storied Sonnet
    Shakspeare's Cliff
    To the River Dove
    The Sea-Mew
    On a First View of the Group Called the
    Seven Mountains
    A Second View of the Seven Mountains
    Emma Roberts (1794?-1840)
    Song ("Upon the Ganges' regal stream")
    Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
    The Linnet
AUTHOR BIO:
Paula R. Feldman holds the C. Wallace Martin Chair in English at the University of South Carolina. She is coeditor of The Journals of Mary Shelley and Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices and is editor of Felicia Hemans's Records of Woman.