The British album. A collection of poems. : [Three lines of anonymous verse]
- 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
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https://name.umdl.umich.edu/N19757.0001.001
- Cite this Item
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"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 May 2, 2024.
Contents
- frontispiece
- title page
- illustration
- title page
- TO RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, ESQ.
- PREFACE.
- THE ADIEU AND RECAL TO LOVE.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA. THE PEN.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- ELEGY, Written on the PLAIN OF FONTENOY.
- STANZAS TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- ODE TO PRUDENCE.
- ODE TO DEATH.
- ELEGY ON THE THIRTY-FIRST OF DECEMBER, MDCCLXXXVII.
- INVOCATION TO HORROR.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO REUBEN.
- ODE TO MRS. SIDDONS.
- ODE TO SIMPLICITY. Addressed to MRS. WELLS.
- ODE TO MISS FARREN.
- THE SLAVES. AN ELEGY.
- ODE TO INDIFFERENCE.
- ODE TO ANNA MATILDA.
- ODE TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- A TALE FOR JEALOUSY.
- half title
- CHARACTERS.
- AMBITIOUS VENGEANCE; A TRAGIC-DRAMA.
- STANZAS ON FRIENDSHIP.
- VERSES TO A YOUNG LADY AT BATH,
- THE COMPLAINT. TO LORD *****.
- ODE TO ****.
- PRAYER TO VENUS.
- COMPLIMENTARY VERSES.
- STANZAS
- THE RETROSPECT.
- STANZAS TO ILL-NATURE.
- THE CONFESSION. TO MISS ****.
- PROLOGUE TO THE COMEDY OF THE PROVOK'D HUSBAND.
- THE INVITATION. TO DELIA.
- STANZAS ON A YOUNG LADY's BIRTH-DAY.
- LINES SENT TO A FRIEND WITH A WATCH.
- SONG, Addressed to A YOUNG LADY.
- BALLAD, FOUNDED ON FACT.
- [The following Lines were the earliest offering to a Young Lady, whose Theatric talents once formed the ornament of the Stage on which she ap|peared; and whose Memory will be honoured by the Drama which she adorned.
- ELEGY. To the LADY who will best remember it.
- LOVE RENEW'D A SONNET.
- CHARACTERISTIC SONG.
- The following POEM, in a distant part of the World, had Fact for its Found|ation. The Lovers thus described, parted, with the emotions the Story gives them. The Dialogue only is fanciful. It is the form which the Author adopted, as the best Method of conveying to the Public.
- DIVERSITY. A POEM.
- SONNET. TO THE MUSE.
- SONNET. TO MELISSA's LIPS.
- SONNET. THE VALENTINE OF HOPELESS LOVE!
- SONNET. MELISSA's RETIREMENT.
- SONNET. TO MAY.
- SONNET. TO MELISSA.
- SONNET. TO MELISSA.
- SONNET. THE INVITATION.
- SONNET. MELISSA!
- SONNET. TO THE RIVER USK, IN MONMOUTHSHIRE.
- SONNET. TO GENERAL ELLIOTT, ON HIS ARRIVAL FROM GIBRALTAR.
- PARTING ADDRESS TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- THE AFRICAN BOY.
- TO MISS FARREN, ON HER BEING ABSENT FROM CHURCH.
- THE VOICE WE LOVE.
- HENRY DECEIVED.
- TO EMMA.
- We preserve the following poetry in this Edition for TWO reasons. It was the FIRST poetic Offering ever made to the Memory of the UNFORTUNATE it mourns; and because it came from a pen whose fer|vor and tenderness would prove it, without a Signature, to be that of ANNA MATILDA.
- A FRAGMENT. ADDRESSED TO ***.
- The following Lines were addressed to Mr. HUMPHREY, the celebrated Miniature Painter, on his PORTRAIT OF MISS FARREN.
- GENERAL CONWAY's ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MISS CAROLINE CAMPBELL, Daughter of the RIGHT HON. WILLIAM CAMPBELL.
- EPITAPH ON MISS CAROLINE CAMPBELL.
- MARQUIS TOWNSHEND's VERSES ON HIS NIECE MISS GARDINER.
- Advertisement.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO HIM WHO WILL UNDERSTAND IT.
- TO LAURA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- LAURA TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO ANNA MATILDA.
- TO DELLA CRUSCA.
- THE INTERVIEW.
- TO PHILANDER, Who said, "WHEN I AM DEAD, WRITE MY ELEGY
- TO A—E B—N.
- CONTENTS.