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Tables of Contents for Nineteenth-Century Women Poets
Chapter/Section Title
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Page Count
Note on the Texts
xxi
2
Introduction
xxiii
ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD (1743-1825)
1
18
1. Epistle to William Wilberforce Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade, 1791
2
3
2. On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792
5
1
3. To Dr Priestley, December 29, 1792
6
1
4. The Rights of Woman
6
1
5. Inscription for an Ice-House
7
1
6. To the Poor
8
1
7. To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
9
1
8. To Mr S. T. Coleridge: 1797
10
1
9. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; A Poem
11
7
10. The Snowdrop
18
1
HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)
19
9
11. from Sensibility
19
2
12. from The Black Slave Trade
21
1
13. Will Chip's True Rights of Man, in Opposition to the New Rights of Man
22
2
14. The Sorrows of Yamba, or, the Negro Woman's Lamentation
24
4
ANNA SEWARD (?1742-1809)
28
2
15. The Ghost of Cuchullin
29
1
CHARLOTTE SMITH (1749-1806)
30
20
16. Elegiac Sonnets, No. 44. Written in the Church Yard at Middleton in Sussex
31
1
17. Elegiac Sonnets, No. 70. On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
31
1
18. Elegiac Sonnets, No. 77. To the Insect of the Gossamer
32
1
19. Fragment. Descriptive of the Miseries of War; from a poem Called `The Emigrants', Printed in 1793
32
1
20. Beachy Head
33
17
JOANNA BAILLIE (1762-1851)
50
24
21. A Winter's Day
51
7
22. A Summer's Day
58
6
23. To a Child
64
1
24. London
65
1
25. Lines to a Teapot
66
3
26. Address to a Steamvessel
69
3
27. Volunteer's Song, Written in 1803
72
2
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS (?1761/2-1827)
74
14
28. from Peruvian Tales. Tale II, Alzira
75
3
29. To Sensibility
78
2
30. from On the Bill which Was Passed in England for Regulating the Slave Trade; a Short Time before Its Abolition
80
2
31. The Bastille, A Vision
82
3
32. Sonnet to the Strawberry
85
1
33. Sonnet to the Curlew
85
1
34. The Charter, Lines Addressed by Helena Maria Williams, to Her Nephew, Athanase C. L. Coquerel, On His Wedding Day
85
3
CAROLINA NAIRNE (1766-1845)
88
2
35. Cradle Song
89
1
AMELIA OPIE (1769-1853)
90
22
36. The Negro Boy's Tale
90
5
37. Consumption
95
1
38. The Despairing Wanderer
96
2
39. The Warrior's Return
98
4
40. The Mad Wanderer, A Ballad
102
1
41. Sketches of St Michael's Mount. Sketch the First
103
3
42. Sketches of St Michael's Mount. Sketch the Second
106
1
43. Sketches of St Michael's Mount. Sketch the Third
106
2
44. Sketches of St Michael's Mount. Sketch the Fourth
108
1
45. Sketches of St Michael's Mount. The Skeleton
109
3
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH (1771-1855)
112
2
46. Thoughts on my Sick-Bed
113
1
47. `When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path?'
114
1
MARY TIGHE (1772-1810)
114
12
48. from Psyche, Canto I
115
3
49. from Psyche, Canto III
118
4
50. from Psyche, Canto VI
122
3
51. The Lily.
125
1
CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON (1775-1850?)
126
3
52. Ode on Visiting the Retreat near York; a House Erected by the Society of Friends, for the Reception of Insane Persons
126
1
53. The Negro, Sept. 1806
127
2
LUCY AIKIN (1781-1864)
129
4
54. Epistles on the Character and Condition of Women, in Various Ages and Nations, I
129
4
ANN TAYLOR (1782-1866) and JANE TAYLOR (1783-1824)
133
3
55. The Star
134
1
56. A Child's Hymn of Praise
134
1
57. The Folly of Finery
135
1
CAROLINE BOWLES (later SOUTHEY) (1786-1854)
136
21
58. from Ellen Fitzarthur: A Metrical Tale
137
2
59. The Father's Tale
139
4
60. from The Birthday, Book I
143
5
61. from The Birthday, Book II
148
3
62. from The Birthday, Book III
151
3
63. The Legend of Santarem
154
3
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD (1787-1855)
157
2
64. To a Yellow Butterfly, April 8th, 1808
158
1
CHARLOTTE ELLIOTT (1789-1871)
159
1
65. `Just as I am'
159
1
EMMA ROBERTS (c. 1794-1840)
160
2
66. A Scene in the Doaab
161
1
JANET HAMILTON (1795-1873)
162
5
67. Civil War in America-Expostulation
163
1
68. Lines Addressed to Mrs H. B. Stowe, on the Occasion of Her Visit to Glasgow, April 13, 1853
164
1
69. The Sunday Rail-I. On the Opening of the North British Railway for Running Sunday Trains, September 3, 1865
165
1
70. A Lay of the Tambour Frame
166
1
FELICIA HEMANS (1793-1835)
167
29
71. England's Dead
168
2
72. The Sword of the Tomb. A Northern Legend
170
3
73. from The Forest Sanctuary
173
4
74. Joan of Arc in Rheims
177
2
75. The Homes of England
179
1
76. Arabella Stuart
180
8
77. Properzia Rossi
188
3
78. Indian Woman's Death-Song
191
2
79. The Image in Lava
193
1
80. Casabianca
194
1
81. The Shadow of a Flower
195
1
MARIA ABDY (1797-1867)
196
2
82. A Governess Wanted
196
2
MARY SEWELL (1797-1884)
198
2
83. The Bad Manager
198
2
LOUISA STUART COSTELLO (1799-1870)
200
5
84. The Maid of the Cyprus Isle. A Ballad
200
4
85. On Reading the Account of the Battle of Waterloo
204
1
86. from The Lay of the Stork
204
1
MARY HOWITT (1799-1888)
205
9
87. The Spider and the Fly. An Apologue
206
1
88. The Lady Magdalene. A Legend of an English Hall
207
7
MARY LEMAN GRIMSTONE (?1800-1866)
214
1
89. The Poor Woman's Appeal to Her Husband
214
1
MARIA JANE JEWSBURY (1800-1833)
215
18
90. Joan of Arc
216
2
91. Song of the Hindoo Women, While Accompanying a Widow to the Funeral Pile of Her Husband
218
3
92. The First Sacrifice
221
3
93. Oceanides, I. The Outward-Bound Ship
224
2
94. Oceanides, II. My Sea-Hermitage
226
1
95. Oceanides, IV. The Sunken Rock
227
3
96. Oceanides, IX. The Eden of the Sea
230
2
97. Oceanides, XII. The Haven Gained
232
1
CAROLINE CLIVE (`V') (1801-1873)
233
5
98. The Grave
234
2
99. Written in Illness
236
1
100. Former Home
237
1
SARA COLERIDGE (1802-1852)
238
3
101. `The Sun May Speed or Loiter on His Way'
239
1
102. `O Sleep, My Babe, Hear Not the Rippling Wave'
239
1
103. `The Winds Were Whispering, the Waters Glistering'
240
1
L.E.L. (LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON) (1802-1838)
241
23
104. Different Thoughts; Suggested by a Picture by G. S. Newton, No. 16 in the British Gallery, and Representing a Girl Looking at Her Lover's Miniature
242
3
105. The Phantom Bride
245
2
106. The Haunted Lake: The Irish Minstrel's Legend
247
4
107. Revenge
251
1
108. The Princess Victoria
252
1
109. The Pirate's Song off the Tiger Island
253
1
110. Hurdwar, a Place of Hindoo Pilgrimage
254
1
111. The Banquet of Aspasia and Pericles
255
2
112. Calypso Watching the Ocean
257
2
113. A Supper of Madame de Brinvilliers
259
3
114. The Factory
262
2
115. The Marriage Vow
264
1
SUSANNA STRICKLAND (later MOODIE) (1803-1885)
264
2
116. The Spirit of Motion
265
1
SARAH FLOWER ADAMS (1805-1848)
266
5
117. A Dream
267
2
118. Songs of the Months.--No. 3, March. Winds and Clouds
269
1
119. Nearer, My God, To Thee
270
1
MARY MARIA COLLING (1804?-1853)
271
1
120. The Moon and the Cloud
271
1
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING (1806-1861)
272
47
121. The Cry of the Children
273
5
122. Bertha in the Lane
278
7
123. To George Sand: A Desire
285
1
124. To George Sand: A Recognition
285
1
125. L.E.L.'s Last Question
286
2
126. The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
288
7
127. Felicia Hemans
295
1
128. Sonnets from the Portuguese, I
296
1
129. Sonnets from the Portuguese, V
297
1
130. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XII
297
1
131. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV
298
1
132. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XXIX
298
1
133. Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLII
298
1
134. from Aurora Leigh, First Book
299
4
135. from Aurora Leigh, First Book
303
3
136. from Aurora Leigh, Third Book
306
5
137. A Curse for a Nation
311
3
138. Lord Walter's Wife
314
4
139. A Musical Instrument
318
1
HELEN DUFFERIN (1807-1867)
319
2
140. The Charming Woman
320
1
ELIZA MARY HAMILTON (1807-1851)
321
5
141. The Moon Seen by Day
322
2
142. Lines Composed at Sea
324
1
143. A Young Girl Seen in Church
325
1
CAROLINE NORTON (1808-1877)
326
10
144. from The Sorrows of Rosalie, II
327
1
145. from The Sorrows of Rosalie, III
328
1
146. from The Undying One, Canto II
329
1
147. `As When from Dreams Awaking'
330
1
148. The Name
331
1
149. from Recollections of a Faded Beauty
331
1
150. from A Voice from the Factories
332
2
151. Lines, Etc.
334
2
FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE (1809-1893)
336
2
152. Lines on a Young Woman, Who, after a Short and Wretched Marriage, Went Mad and Died
337
1
LADY JOHN SCOTT (1810-1900)
338
1
153. We've Lookit for Ye Lang
338
1
MARY ANN BROWNE (1812-1845)
339
2
154. Noon by the Sea Side
339
1
155. `My Baby! My Baby! They've Told Me He is Dead'
340
1
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS (1812-1872)
341
5
156. from The Island Queen, I
341
1
157. from Fanet: One of Many
342
4
ANN HAWKSHAW (1813-1885)
346
2
158. The Mother to Her Starving Child
346
1
159. Why Am I a Slave?
347
1
GRACE AGUILAR (1816-1847)
348
2
160. The Vision of Jerusalem
349
1
CHARLOTTE BRONTE (1816-1855)
350
6
161. The Wife's Will
351
2
162. The Teacher's Monologue
353
2
163. Evening Solace
355
1
FRANCES BROWNE (1816-1879)
356
3
164. Words
356
1
165. The Last Friends
357
2
ELIZA COOK (1818-1889)
359
8
166. Lines to the Queen of England
359
1
167. The Old Arm-Chair
360
1
168. Oh! Dear to Memory Are Those Hours
361
1
169. The Englishman
362
1
170. Song of the Red Indian
363
2
171. Harvest Song
365
2
EMILY BRONTE (1818-1848)
367
11
172. Stars
368
1
173. The Philosopher
369
1
174. Remembrance
370
1
175. Song
371
1
176. The Prisoner. A Fragment
372
2
177. To Imagination
374
1
178. Sympathy
375
1
179. Death
375
1
180. Stanzas to--
376
1
181. My Comforter
377
1
182. The Old Stoic
378
1
GEORGE ELIOT (MARY ANN EVANS) (1819-1880)
378
14
183. `O May I Join the Choir Invisible'
380
1
184. A Minor Prophet
381
7
185. Brother and Sister
388
4
ANNE BRONTE (1820-1849)
392
4
186. The Arbour
393
1
187. If This Be All
394
1
188. A Word to the `Elect'
395
1
ANNE EVANS (1820-1870)
396
4
189. Over!
397
1
190. Fragments
397
1
191. Outcry
398
1
192. from Orinda: A Ballad
398
2
JEAN INGELOW (1820-1897)
400
34
193. Divided
402
4
194. The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571)
406
4
195. Gladys and Her Island (On the Advantages of the Poetical Temperament)
410
19
196. Echo and the Ferry
429
3
197. Perdita
432
2
MENELLA BUTE SMEDLEY (1820-1877)
434
3
198. Garibaldi at Varignano
435
1
199. Lines on the Greek Massacre
436
1
DORA GREENWELL (1821-1882)
437
16
200. Christina
439
10
201. Madana
449
3
202. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1851
452
1
203. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning in 1861
452
1
204. A Scherzo (A Shy Person's Wishes)
452
1
`SPERANZA' (JANE FRANCESCA WILDE) (1821-1896)
453
5
205. A Supplication
454
1
206. The Exodus
455
2
207. The Fisherman
457
1
ELIZA KEARY (1827?-c.1889)
458
10
208. Disenchanted
459
1
209. Through the Wood
459
2
210. A Mother's Call
461
1
211. A Flower to the Moon
462
1
212. Doctor Emily
462
4
213. from Christine and Mary: A Correspondence
466
2
ANNA LETITIA WARING (1823-1910)
468
1
214. `Father, I Know that All My Life'
468
1
LOUISA SHORE (1824-1895)
469
2
215. War Music
470
1
ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER (1825-1864)
471
19
216. Now
472
1
217. The Lesson of the War (1855)
473
2
218. A Tomb in Ghent
475
6
219. A Woman's Question
481
1
220. Envy
482
1
221. A Lost Chord
483
1
222. The Requital
484
1
223. A Comforter
485
3
224. A Woman's Last Word
488
1
225. Homeless
489
1
DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK (1826-1887)
490
4
226. Only a Woman
491
2
227. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Her Later Sonnets. 1856
493
1
EMILY PFEIFFER (1827-1890)
494
15
228. A Rhyme for the Time
495
5
229. Longing and Asking
500
2
230. `Peace to the Odalisque', I
502
1
231. `Peace to the Odalisque', II
502
1
232. Ode to the Teuton Women
503
4
233. Kassandra, I
507
1
234. Kassandra, II
507
1
235. Klytemnestra, I
508
1
236. Klytemnestra, II
508
1
`CLARIBEL' (CHARLOTTE ALINGTON, later BARNARD) (1829-1869)
509
1
237. I Remember It
510
1
BESSIE RAYNER PARKES (MADAME BELLOC) (1829-1925)
510
3
238. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning
511
1
239. For Adelaide
512
1
ELIZABETH SIDDAL (1829-1862)
513
3
240. True Love
514
1
241. Dead Love
515
1
242. He and She and Angels Three
515
1
243. Love and Hate
516
1
LOUISA A. HORSFIELD (1830-?1865)
516
2
244. To My Departed Baby
517
1
245. Lines to a Friend in Australia
517
1
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI (1830-1894)
518
51
246. Song
520
1
247. My Dream
521
1
248. My Secret
522
1
249. Winter Rain
523
1
250. Goblin Market
524
12
251. Up-Hill
536
1
252. A Royal Princess
537
2
253. The Lowest Room
539
8
254. L.E.L
547
1
255. Under the Rose
548
12
256. Autumn Violets
560
1
257. Monna Innominata
560
8
258. The Thread of Life
568
1
ISA CRAIG-KNOX (1831-1903)
569
2
259. The Building of the City
569
2
MARIANNE FARNINGHAM (MARY ANNE HEARN) (1834-1909)
571
1
260. It is Well
571
1
M.E. BRADDON (1835-1915)
572
2
261. Queen Guinevere
573
1
262. To a Coquette
574
1
ELLEN JOHNSTON (1835-1873)
574
1
263. The Last Sark. Written in 1859
575
1
`A FACTORY GIRL' (dates not known)
575
2
264. from The Cotton Famine and the Lancashire Operatives
575
2
RUTH WILLS (1826?-?)
577
4
265. Anne Boleyn
577
2
266. A New Gospel
579
2
FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL (1836-1878)
581
5
267. The Ministry of Song
581
3
268. An Indian Flag
584
2
ANNIE LOUISA WALKER (1836-1907)
586
1
269. The Night Cometh
586
1
AGNES MAULE MACHAR (1837-1927)
587
3
270. Canada to the Laureate. In Response to Tennyson's Lines
587
2
271. Our Lads to the Front! Embarkation of the Canadian Contingent for South Africa;--Quebec, October 31, 1899
589
1
AUGUSTA WEBSTER (1837-1894)
590
31
272. Circe
590
6
273. The Happiest Girl in the World
596
6
274. A Castaway
602
15
275. Mother and Daughter, VI
617
1
276. Mother and Daughter, VII
618
1
277. Mother and Daughter, IX
618
1
278. Mother and Daughter, XII
618
1
279. Mother and Daughter, XIII
619
1
280. Mother and Daughter, XIV
619
1
281. Mother and Daughter, XV
620
1
282. Mother and Daughter, XVI
620
1
283. Mother and Daughter, XVII
621
1
CHARLOTTE ELLIOT (`FLORENZ') (1839-1880)
621
4
284. The Pythoness
622
3
HARRIET ELEANOR HAMILTON KING (1840-1920)
625
26
285. The Execution of Felice Orsini, March 13th, 1858
626
25
MATHILDE BLIND (1841-1896)
651
13
286. The Street-Children's Dance
653
3
287. Chaunts of Life (from The Ascent of Man)
656
4
288. The Russian Student's Tale
660
3
289. On a Torso of Cupid
663
1
VIOLET FANE (MARY MONTGOMERIE LAMB, later SINGLETON, later CURRIE) (1843-1905)
664
6
290. Lancelot and Guinevere
665
3
291. The Irish `Patriots'. (To Wilfred Scawen Blunt)
668
1
292. At Christie's
668
2
MARGARET VELEY (1843-1887)
670
8
293. A Japanese Fan
671
4
294. A Game of Piquet
675
3
L. S. BEVINGTON (later GUGGENBERGER) (1845-1895)
678
5
295. Love and Pride
679
1
296. Bees in Clover. A Song
679
2
297. The Unpardonable Sin
681
1
298. Hated
681
1
299. Revolution
682
1
E. H. HICKEY (1845-1924)
683
9
300. A Sculptor
683
8
301. A Weak-Minded Woman's Comparisons
691
1
LUCY KNOX (1845-1884)
692
1
302. Sonnet. A Cry to Men
692
1
303. Sonnet. Lament of the Loyal Irish, 1869
692
1
EMILY LAWLESS (1845-1913)
693
1
304. After Aughrim
693
1
MICHAEL FIELD (KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY, 1846-1914, and. EDITH EMMA COOPER, 1862-1913)
694
13
305. Long Ago, XVII
696
1
306. Long Ago, XXXV
697
1
307. Long Ago, LIV
697
1
308. Spring. Sandro Botticelli. The Accademia of Florence
698
2
309. The Rescue. Tintoretto. The Dresden Gallery
700
1
310. Saint Sebastian. Antonello da Messina. The Dresden Gallery
701
3
311. A Pen-Drawing of Leda. Sodoma. The Grand Duke's Palace at Weimar
704
1
312. The Sleeping Venus. Giorgione. The Dresden Gallery
704
3
ALICE MEYNELL (1847-1922)
707
7
313. In Autumn
709
1
314. A Letter from a Girl to Her Own Old Age
710
2
315. `Soeur Monique'. A Rondeau by Couperin
712
2
L. ORMISTON CHANT (1848-1923)
714
3
316. Hope's Song
715
2
ELIZABETH RACHEL CHAPMAN (1850-1902?)
717
3
317. Hereafter
717
1
318. A Woman's Strength
718
1
319. Hope
719
1
320. A Little Child's Wreath, XXX
720
1
ANNIE MATHESON (1853-1924)
720
2
321. A Song for Women
721
1
TORU DUTT (1856-1877)
722
2
322. On the Fly-Leaf of Erckmann-Chatrian's Novel Entitled `Madame Therese'
722
1
323. Sonnet--Baugmaree
723
1
MARGARET L. WOODS (1856-1945)
724
2
324. L'Envoi
724
1
325. from Aeromancy
725
1
A. MARY F. ROBINSON (later DARMESTETER, later DUCLAUX) (1857-1944)
726
7
326. Tuscan Olives (Rispetti)
727
2
327. Etruscan Tombs
729
1
328. Darwinism
730
1
329. The Idea
731
1
330. The Bookworm
731
1
331. Liberty
732
1
CONSTANCE NADEN (1858-1889)
733
4
332. The Lady Doctor
733
2
333. Scientific Wooing
735
2
E. NESBIT (1858-1924)
737
5
334. The Wife of All Ages
738
1
335. Under Convoy
739
1
336. Indiscretion
740
1
337. The Despot
741
1
KATHARINE TYNAN (later HINKSON) (1859-1931)
742
4
338. The Irish Hills
742
2
339. Our Lady of Pity
744
2
ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON (GRAHAM R. TOMSON) (1860-1912)
746
9
340. Ballad of the Bird-Bride (Eskimo)
747
2
341. `Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani?'
749
1
342. The Story of Marpessa (As Heard in Hades)
750
5
M. E. COLERIDGE (1861-1907)
755
5
343. To Memory
756
1
344. Gone
756
1
345. The Other Side of a Mirror
756
1
346. Eyes
757
1
347. Mortal Combat
758
1
348. A Mother to a Baby
758
1
349. Contradictions
759
1
350. Mistaken
759
1
351. A Clever Woman
759
1
MAY KENDALL (1861-1943)
760
7
352. Lay of the Trilobite
760
2
353. Education's Martyr
762
1
354. Woman's Future
763
1
355. An Incident in Real Life, Related by an Eye-Witness in Marble
764
2
356. The Sandblast Girl and the Acid Man
766
1
AMY LEVY (1861-1889)
767
14
357. Xantippe (A Fragment)
770
6
358. Magdalen
776
2
359. To Lallie (Outside the British Museum)
778
1
360. Borderland
779
1
361. At a Dinner Party
780
1
362. A Ballad of Religion and Marriage
780
1
LAURENCE HOPE (ADELA FLORENCE NICOLSON) (1865-1904)
781
3
363. The Regret of the Ranee in the Hall of Peacocks
781
1
364. Camp Follower's Song, Gomal River
782
2
ETHNA CARBERY (ANNA MACMANUS) (1866-1902)
784
2
365. Mo Chraoibhin Cno
784
1
366. The Well o' the World's End
785
1
ALICE MILLIGAN (1866-1953)
786
5
367. A Song of Freedom
787
1
368. When I Was a Little Girl
787
2
369. The Dark Palace (The Palace of Aileach, Seat of The O'Neill)
789
1
370. Cormacan Sings (Cormacan an Eigeas, 10th Century)
790
1
DORA SIGERSON (later SHORTER) (1866-1918)
791
2
371. With a Rose
791
1
372. The Wind on the Hills
792
1
NORA HOPPER (later CHESSON) (1871-1906)
793
4
373. Finvarragh
793
1
374. Two Women
794
1
375. Marsh Marigolds
794
1
376. Hertha
795
2
Sources and Notes
797
12
Select Bibliography
809
2
Index of Titles
811
5
Index of First Lines
816
6
Index of Authors and Main Subjects
822