Collected Works of Ann Yearsley Vol 1

Kerri Andrews, Tim Fulford, Bridget Keegan

• 1 Lines Addressed to the Revd Mr Leeves on his Visiting Stella to Cowslip Green -- 2 To Mr Grey Cowper -- 3 Night. To Stella -- 4 Th oughts on the Author’s Own Death. Written when Very Young -- 5 To a Friend; on Valentine’s Day -- 6 Another Valentine. To Another Person -- 7 To Mrs. V____n -- 8 A Fragment -- 9 On the Sudden Death of a Friend -- 10 To Mr. R____, on his Benevolent Scheme for Rescuing Poor Children from Vice and Misery, by Promoting Sunday Schools -- 11 To Mrs. M____s -- 12 To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs. Montagu -- 13 To the Same; on her Accusing the Author of Flattery, and of Ascribing to the Creature that Praise which is due only to the Creator Ascribing to the Creature that Praise which is due only to the Creator -- 14 Soliloquy -- 15 Address to Friendship -- 16 To the Honourable H____e W____e, on Reading the Castle of Otranto. December, 1784 -- 17 To Her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Portland -- 18 On Mrs. Montagu -- 19 Clift on Hill. Written in January 1785 -- 20 To Stella -- 21 Extempore on the Author’s being Reprov’d by her Mother and Brother when a Girl -- 22 Despondence -- 23 Th e Following Lines were Written Extempore with a Pencil in the Stock-Exchange -- 24 To Mr Chetwood -- 25 Ode on the Late Happy Reconciliation between His Majesty and the Prince of Wales: by Mrs. Yearsley -- 26 Lines, on Entering Lady Wallace’s Study, her Ladyship being Absent. By Mrs. Yearsley, the Poetess of Bristol -- 27 Addressed to Sensibility -- 28 On the Death of Her Grace, the Duchess Dowager of Portland -- 29 To a Sensible but Passionate Friend -- 30 To the Bristol Marine Society -- 31 Familiar Epistle to a Friend, who Appeared Hurt on the Author’s Desiring Him to Live ‘Upon Remembrance -- 32 Song -- 33 To Mr. V____, on his Pronouncing the Author to be in Love, when She Wrote the Preceding -- 34 Epitaph, on the Sudden Death of an Accomplished Youth (Designed for a Tomb-Stone) -- 35 Elegy, Written on the Banks of the Avon, where the Author took a last Farewel of he