Poetry

Name Poetry
Description

Composition, elegy, epistle, or canto in verse.

Titles

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ID Title Author Firms (City) Date Edition
25513 A Poem on the battle of Dettingen. Inscrib'd to the King. Unknown ,
1743
4578 A poem on the bill lately passed for regulating the slave trade. By Helen Maria Williams. Williams , Helen Maria
 Thomas Cadell [London] (London)
1788
19885 A poem on the death of Dr. Levi Holt, of Wilbraham, who died April 18, 1814. Aet. 35. Addressed to the relatives of the deceased, by Patty Smith, of Sandisfield. Smith , Patty
 1814
20633 A poem on the death of Genl. Alexander Hamilton. By a young lady of Baltimore. Unknown , [Woman]
 1804
25996 A poem on the death of Mr. Rich Shales, of Hatfield Broadoak in Essex; who was to have taken upon him the name of Barington: son of Charles Shales, Esq; goldsmith to His Majesty, in Lombard-Street. The second edition. Corrected. Unknown ,
Nutt , Elizabeth
 Robert Walker [Temple Bar] (London)
Elizabeth Nutt [Royal Exchange] (London)
1729? The second edition. Corrected.
25518 A poem on the death of the Honourable the Lady Elizabeth Hastings. Unknown ,
John Hildyard (York)
1740
1774 A poem on the inhumanity of the slave-trade. Humbly inscribed to the Right Honourable and Right Reverend Frederick, Earl of Bristol, Bishop of Derry; &c. &c. By Ann Yearsley. Yearsley , Ann
 George, George, John and James Robinson (London)
1788
5391 A poem on the love of our neighbour: Published for the benefit of a person in distress, remarkable for her poetic genius. By a lady. It is more blessed to give, than to receive; faith the Saviour of mankind. Unknown , [Woman]
 1783
22578 A poem on the memorable fall of Chloe's p--s pot, attempted in blank verse. Swift , Jonathan
Phillips , John
 1713
12665 A Poem on the Pleasures and Advantages of Botanical Pursuits, with Notes; and Other Poems. By a friend to youth, addressed to her pupils. Hoare , Sarah
 1825
13002 A Poem on the Proclamation of Peace, which took place the Twentieth of the Sixth Month, one thousand, eight hundred and fourteen; the fifty-fourth year of the reign of King George the Third. Day , Eliza
 1814
13037 A poem on the times. Fell , Miss
 1773
6636 A poem on the times. By Miss Fell, of Newcastle. Fell , Miss
 John Wilkie (London)
William Goldsmith [Paternoster Row] (London)
1774
6633 A poem on the times. By Miss Fell. Fell , Miss
 1774
25663 A poem on tobacco, from the original Latin of Raphael Thorius, an Eminent Physician. By the Reverend William Bewick. Thorius , Raphael
 James Reed [Read] (London)
1725
25240 A poem sacred to the immortal memory of Her Most Excellent Majesty, Anne, late Queen of Great-Britain, who Died at her Palace of Kensington the First Day of August, 1714. in the Fiftieth Year of her Age, and the Thirteenth of her Reign. Written by a lady of quality. Unknown , [Woman]
 1715
25332 A poem upon tea. Wherein its antiquity, its several virtues and influences are set forth; and the Wisdom of the sober Sex commended in chusing so mild a Liquor for their Entertainments. Likewise, the reason why the Ladies protest against all Imposing Liquors, and the Vulgar Terms used by the Followers of Bacchus. Also, the Objections against Tea, answered; the Complaint of the Fair Sex redress'd, and the best way of proceeding in Love-Affairs: Together with the sincere Courtship of Dick and Amy, &c. By Duncan Campbell. Campbell , Duncan
 1735
21948 A poem, humbly inscrib'd to the Lords Commissioners for the union of the two kingdoms. Pix , Mary
 1707
12103 A Poem, in Answer to an Anonymous Pamphlet; in Three Letters, Called Friendly Hints to Catholic Emancipation. By Mary M'Coy. McCoy , Mary
 1813
12285 A Poem, Occasioned by the Partial Burning of York Cathedral: Most Respectfully Inscribed to the Citizens of York. By Miss M. A. Dawson. Dawson , Miss M. A.
 William Oliphant (Edinburgh)
John Hatchard and Son [187 Piccadilly] (London)
Richard Moore Tims (Dublin)
Alexander Barclay [St. Saviourgate] (York)
1829
12506 A Poem, Sacred to Freedom: And a Poem Intitled, Beneficence. By Mrs. Robert Hill. Hill , Philippina Patience
 1780
25766 A poem, Sacred to the Memory of the Honourable The Lady Aber-ny. Humbly Inscrib'd to the Quality of Great-Britain, &c. Unknown ,
1729
16178 A Poem, Spoken Extempore, by a Young Lady, on hearing the Guns Firing and Bells chiming on account of the Great and Glorious Acquisition of their Excellencies General Washington, and the Count de Grasse, by the Surrender of York-Town, in Virginia, in which were Lord Cornwallis and Army, consisting of Nine Thousand Troops, a Forty Gun Ship, Frigate, an armed Vessel and One Hundred Sail of Transports. Unknown , [Woman]
 1781
12527 A poem, to the memory of the Truly-Right-Honourable William Burton Conyngham, lately deceased; written, and most respectfully addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Conyngham, by His Lorrdship's most obedient, most obliged, humble servant, Mrs. Robert Hill. Hill , Philippina Patience
 s.n. [sine nomine]
1796
23819 A poem. Keinton , Martha
 1716

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