TABLE OF CONTENTS
This page contains the master list of all poets and poems currently available in our digital miscellany, organized alphabetically by author surname. Clicking on an individual poem title will take you to its unique page, which includes a PDF download function.
MARY ALCOCK (c. 1742-1798)
“Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the Mob in England”
“The Air Balloon”
NICHOLAS AMHURST (1697-1742)
“To Mrs. Centlivre at that time dangerously ill”
ANONYMOUS
“An Invocation to Poverty”
“Sonnet to Mr. Herschel, on his many Astronomical Discoveries”
“Evening and Night”
“A Picture taken from the Life”
“On the Dissection of a Body”
“Ode on the month of May, after the manner of Hagedorn”
“Thoughts on Life”
“Verses, Written by a young Lady, on the Death of her Father”
“Sonnet on the Inhabitants of London”
“Damon’s Complaint for Amynta’s absence”
“On seeing Saphira in a Riding Habit”
“Song for an Amazon”
“All is Vanity!”
“A Simile for the contending Poets at Dublin”
“Kitty”
“[On Tobacco, a translation]”
“Reasons against deifying the Fair Sex”
“The Snail’s Apologist. An Heroi-Comic Ode from the French”
“Epilogue”
“Second Thoughts are Best”
“Upon the sight of a Fair Ladies Breech, discovered at her being turned over in a Coach”
“Scattered Thoughts, by a Lady”
“The Rise of Tea”
“The Picture”
“Sickness. An Ode”
“Verses occasion’d by a Horse’s biting a Lady’s Breast”
“Tears of Affection”
“On the Art of Writing: Sent to Mira”
“Galetea to Triton. On Jealousie”
“To Mr. C–T–BY”
JACOB AXFORD (fl. 1764)
“On my sudden going on board the Orford and her leaving the Land”
JOHN BANCKS (1709-1751)
“The Wish”
MARY BARBER (c. 1685-1755)
“To a Lady, who invited the Author into the Country”
“Written from Dublin to a Lady in the Country”
“An Unanswerable Apology for the Rich”
“The Prodigy. A Letter to a Friend in the Country”
“A True Tale”
“Written for a Gentlewoman in Distress. To her Grace ADELIDA, Dutchess of Shrewsbury”
“To Dr. Richard Helsham. Upon my Recovery from a dangerous Fit of Sickness”
“Jupiter and Fortune. A Fable”
“The Oak and its Branches. A Fable”
“Written for my Son, and spoken by him in School, upon his Master’s first bringing in a Rod”
JAMES BEATTIE (1735-1803)
“The Hermit”
APHRA BEHN (1640?-1689)
“The Golden Age”
“On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks”
“The Dream. A Song”
JOHN BENNET (1737-1803)
“The Fortune-Teller”
“The Brewer and the Rat”
THOMAS BLACKLOCK (1721-1791)
“An Irregular Ode”
WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)
“A War Song to Englishmen”
SUSANNA BLAMIRE (1747-1794)
“Hope”
SAMUEL BOYSE (1708-1749)
“Wine the Cure of Love. A Ballad”
WILLIAM BROOME (1689-1745)
“Courage in Love”
ISSAC HAWKINS BROWNE (1705-1760)
“On a Fit of the Gout. An Ode”
MICHAEL BRUCE (1746-1767)
“Pastoral Song”
“Ode: To a Fountain”
“Anacreontic: To a Wasp”
“C—-s.”
“In Ridicule of the Prevailing Rage for Air Balloons”
GEORGE CAMPBELL (1761-1817)
“Lunardi’s Balloon, An Elegy”
GEORGE SAVILLE CAREY (1743-1807)
“The Negro’s Soliloquy”
ELIZABETH CARTER (1717-1806)
“A Dialogue”
“Ode to Melancholy”
“To Miss Hall. 1746″
“Thoughts at Midnight. 1739″
“On the DEATH of Mrs. Rowe”
“A Riddle”
“To —-.”
“Written at Midnight in a Thunderstorm. To———-“
JANE CAVE (1754/55-1813?)
“Written by Desire of a Mother, on the Death of an Only Child”
“On the Marriage of a Lady, to whom the Author was Bride-Maid”
“Written by Desire of a Lady, on an angry, petulant Kitchen-Maid”
MARGARET CAVENDISH (1623-1673)
“A Dialogue betwixt Wit and Beauty”
“The Pastime and Recreation of the Queen of Fairies in Fairy- Land, the Center of the Earth”
LADY MARY CHUDLEIGH (1656-1710)
“Icarus”
EDWARD COBDEN (1684-1764)
“A Letter to a Friend, on the Death of his Cow”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE (1772-1834)
“Lines on a Friend Who Died of a Frenzy Fever Induced by Calumnious Reports”
WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)
“Ode to Peace”
MATTHEW CONCANEN (1701-1749)
“A Ballad”
FRANCES MARIA COWPER (1726-1797)
“My Retired Hours”
“The Retrospect”
“Love of Solitude”
RICHARD CUMBERLAND (1732-1811)
“Envy”
“Epilogue. [To The Battle of Hastings.] Spoken by Miss Younge”
MARY DARWALL (nee WHATELEY) (1738-1825)
“To a Friend, on her recovery from Sickness”
“To my Garden”
“Elegy on a much lamented Friend, Who died in Autumn, 1759″
“Hymn to Plutus”
“An Epistle to a Friend”
JOHN DAVIDSON (fl. 1790, d. 1831)
“A Scots Poetical Shop Bill”
ELIZA DAYE (fl. 1793-1814)
“Soliloquy”
WILLIAM DINGLEY (1672 or 3-1735)
“Upon a Bee Entomb’d in Amber”
SARAH DIXON (1671-1765)
“On the Death of My Dear Brother…”
“Aminta’s Dream”
JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700)
“To Henry Hidden, Esq; On his Translation of the Tenth Satire of Juvenal”
STEPHEN DUCK (1705-1756)
“On Music”
“To Death. An Irregular Ode”
“To His Royal Highness The Duke of Cumberland, on His Birth-Day”
“On Two Young Ladies leaving the Country”
JOHN DUNCAN (1721-1808)
“Small Beer”
“T.E.”
“To one quoting the common saying Words are but Wind”
SARAH FYGE EGERTON (1668-1723)
“To Mr. Norris, on his Idea of Happiness”
NATHANIEL EVANS (1742-1767)
“A Riddle”
WILLIAM FARQUHAR (fl. 1790-1794)
“Death, a Poem”
ANNE FINCH, COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA (1661-1720)
“The Cautious Lovers”
“The Lyon and the Gnat”
“Jupiter and the Farmer”
WILLIAM THOMAS FITZGERALD (1759-1829)
“An Address to the Company assembled at Freemason’s Hall, on the Anniversary of the Literary Fund, May 2 1799”
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752-1832)
“Port Royal”
REV. ANTHONY FRESTON (1757-1819)
“The Poet’s Farewell to his Muse”
JOHN FRIZZLE (fl. 1733)
“An Irish Miller, to Mr. Stephen Duck”
JOHN GAY (1685-1732)
“Epistle to a Lady. Occasioned by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness”
“Fable I: The Lion, the Tiger, and the Traveller”
“Fable XXXIII: The Courtier and Proteus”
“Fable XXXI: The Universal Apparition”
“Fable IV: The Eagle, and the Assembly of Animals”
“The Shepherd’s Week IV. Thursday; or, the Spell”
“Panthea. An Elegy”
ELIZABETH GOOCH (1757-1807)
“To a Friend”
“Sonnet. Addressed to–“
RICHARD GOUGH (1735-1809)
“To Mrs. S— on presenting the Author with a Lock of her Hair”
JAMES GRAEME (1749-1772)
“Rona: An Elegaic Ballad”
GEORGE GRANVILLE, LORD LANSDOWNE (1666-1735)
“The Vision”
THOMAS GRAY (1716-1771)
“Ode to the Spring”
WILLIAM HAMILTON (1704-1754)
“The Wish”
WILLIAM HAMILTON, A DAY LABOURER (fl. 1786)
“Address to Humanity”
ELIZABETH HANDS (1746-1815)
“A Poem, on the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant-Maid”
REV. HENRY HARINGTON THE YOUNGER (1755?-1791)
“The Hermite’s Addresse to Youth”
WALTER HARTE (1709-1774)
“A Soliloquy, Occasion’d by the Chirping of a Grasshopper”
JOHN HAWES (fl. 1754)
“On Seeing an Infant Boy Seven Years of Age learning to write”
JOHN HAWKESWORTH (1715?-1773)
“Life. An Ode”
FRANCIS HAWLING (fl. 1723-1751)
“HAMLET’s Reflection in the Scene of the Gravedigger imitated”
WILLIAM HAYLEY (1745-1820)
“A Charm for Ennui: A Matrimonial Ballad”
ELIZA HAYWOOD (c. 1693-1756)
“The Vision”
“An Irregular Ode”
JOHN HOY, JUNIOR (fl. before 1781)
“Delia’s Farewel, An Elegy”
JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720)
“A Letter to a Friend in the Country”
WILLIAM HUTTON (1723-1815)
“The Way to Get Married”
THOMAS GEORGE INGALL (fl. 1792-1796)
“The Negroe’s Complaint”
ANNE INGRAM, VISCOUNTESS IRWIN (c. 1696-1764)
“An Epistle to Mr. Pope…Occasioned by his Characters of Women”
RICHARD JAGO (1715-1781)
“The Blackbirds”
CATHERINE JEMMAT (1714-1766)
“The Rural Lass”
SOAME JENYNS (1704-1787)
“The Modern Fine Gentleman”
SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)
“Autumn. An Ode”
JOHN JONES (fl. 1768-1779)
“To the Unfortunate Miss Poynton, of Lichfield”
“JUVENTUS”
“Address to Evening. Written in June”
WILLIAM KENRICK (c. 1725-1779)
“The Beau and the Butterfly. A Fable”
JOHN LANGHORNE (1735-1779)
“The Tears of Music”
MARY LEAPOR (1722-1746)
“The Genius in Disguise”
“The Beauties of the Spring”
“A Summer’s Wish”
“The Charms of Anthony”
“On Sickness”
“Nature undone by Art”
“The Power of Beauty”
“The Fox and the Hen. A Fable”
“The Temple of Love”
“An Essay on Woman”
“The Death of Abel”
CHARLOTTE LENNOX (c. 1729-1804)
“The Language of the Eyes to Lady J—- F—-”
“Song”
“A Pastoral, from the Song of Solomon”
“To Aurelia, on her attempting to write Verses”
“The Rival Nymphs. A Tale”
“A Hymn to Venus, in Imitation of Sappho”
“The Art of Coquettry”
“To Moneses Singing”
“MRS. LETCHES” (fl. 1792)
“Evening Reflections on Brandon-Hill”
“A Tribute”
JANET LITTLE (1759-1813)
“From Snipe, a favourite Dog, to his Master”
MARIA LOGAN (fl. 1793)
“To Opium”
EDWARD LOVIBOND (1723-1775)
“To a Young Lady, a Very Good Actress”
ROBERT LUCK (fl. 1736)
“The Dry Joke”
GEORGE LORD LYTTELTON (1709-1773)
“A Prayer to Venus in her Temple at Stowe”
DAVID MALLET (c. 1705-1765)
“The Discovery”
WILLIAM MASON (1724-1797)
“The Plow-Boy’s Dream”
MARY MASTERS (c. 1706-c. 1759)
“On seeing a Lady with a new fashion’d Riding Dress, and a Hat cock’d up”
“To Lucinda”
“The Female Triumph”
“On Marinda’s Marriage”
“To my Self”
“To the Sun, in a cold dry Season”
“To Clemene”
“The Vanity of Human Life”
“On Beauty”
LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU (1689-1762)
“Farewell to Bath”
ELIZABETH MOODY (1737-1814)
“A Dialogue between Beauty and Time”
“Written in the Autumn”
HANNAH MORE (1745-1833)
“The Plum-Cakes; or The Farmer and His Three Sons”
ANN MURRY (1750-after 1818)
“An Ode”
HENRY NORRIS (fl. 1774)
“Friendship”
JOHN NORRIS (fl. 1761)
“The Rainbow. A Fable”
“I.O.”
“Reason’s Expostulation with Love”
“Love’s Answer to Reason”
JOHN OGILVIE (1733-1813)
“Ode to the Genius of Shakespear”
“Jupiter and the Clown. A Fable”
MARTHA FERRAR PECKARD (1729-1805)
“An Ode to Spring. By a Lady”
ALEXANDER PENNECUIK (1652-1722)
“A Tale of a Muir-Cock”
“The Trial of the Muir-Cock”
“PHILOTHEORUS”
“Card Playing Philosophized, Addressed to a Young Lady, with a Pack of Cards”
LAETITIA PILKINGTON (1709-1750)
“Sorrow”
MATTHEW PILKINGTON (1701-1774)
“The Lost Muse”
“Happiness”
“The Progress of Musick, to Mira”
PRISCILLA POINTON (c. 1750-1801)
“A Valentine”
“Enigma, Extempore”
“Address to a Bachelor, On a delicate Occasion”
JOHN POMFRET (1667-1702)
“To his Friend under Affliction”
“A Pastoral Essay, on the Death of Queen Mary, Anno, 1694″
“POSTHUMOUS”
“Morning Stanzas in October”
“POSTHUMUS”
“The Partridges: An Elegy…”
THOMAS POYNTON (fl. 1783)
“A Ballad written by Thomas Poynton, a Pauper…”
MATTHEW PRIOR (1664-1721)
“The Cameleon”
“The English Padlock”
“Hymn to the Sun”
“The Wandering Pilgrim”
“To a Young Gentleman in Love. A Tale”
HENRY JAMES PYE (1745-1813)
“The Snow-Drop”
“R.” (fl. 1776)
“The Toasts. A Fable”
“L.R.” (fl. 1798)
“Ode To Venus”
CLARA REEVE (1729-1807)
“To my Friend Mrs.——, On Her Holding an Argument in Favour of the Natural Equality of Both the Sexes. Written in the Year MDCCLVI.”
WILLIAM HAMILTON REID (c. 1760-1826)
“The Panic; or a Meditation…upon the Discovery of the Plague”
ANNE ROSS (fl. 1791)
“To the memory of a Young Lady, who died in the eleventh year of her age”
ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE (1674-1737)
“To one that perswades me to leave the Muses”
“A Hymn on Heaven”
ELIZABETH RYVES (1750-1797)
“Ode to Friendship”
“C.S.”
“Written in a Fit of Sickness, On Shipboard”
JOHN SCOTT (1731-1783)
“Verses occasioned by the Description of the Eolian Harp”
ANNA SEWARD (1742-1809)
“Written by Miss Anna Seward in the blank Leaves of her own Poems…”
“Invocation of the Comic Muse”
JAMES SHIRLEY (1596-1666)
“Death’s Final Conquest”
REV. TIPPING SILVESTER (fl. 1733)
“Venus’s Girdle; or, Advice to a Wife”
CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771)
“A Morning Piece, or, An Hymn for the Hay-Makers”
“A Noon-Piece; or, The Mowers at Dinner”
JONATHAN SWIFT (1667-1745)
“The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind”
“Apollo Outwitted”
“TOM TELLTROTH”
“On the Hon. Master —- who bled to Death, after a cross incision on the Jugular…”
ELIZABETH THOMAS (1675-1731)
“Epistle to Clemena”
THOMAS TICKELL (1685-1740)
“To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Mr. Addison”
ELIZABETH TOLLET (1694-1754)
“In Memory of the Countess of Winchelsea”
“To A Gentleman in Love”
“The Portrait”
“On a Death’s Head”
“To my Brother at St. John’s College in Cambridge”
“E.V.”
“The Nightingale’s Complaint”
ANNE WHARTON (1659-1685)
“The Retirement”
PHILLIS WHEATLEY (c. 1753-1784)
“On Virtue”
“To the University of Cambridge, in New-England”
“To Maecenas”
“Ode to Neptune. On Mrs. W–‘s Voyage to England”
“To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”
“On Imagination”
“On Recollection”
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (1715-1785)
“A Second Epilogue. Spoken by Mrs. Pritchard”
“The Enthusiast. An Ode”
LAURENCE WHYTE (1685?-1752/3)
“The Inchantment. A Tale”
JAMES WOODHOUSE (1735-1820)
“Benevolence, An Ode”
GEORGE WOODWARD (fl. 1708-1730)
“On the Death of a Monkey”
“Upon an Ugly Fellow, who Thought Himself Handsome, because the Girls Gaz’d upon Him So Much”
THOMAS WOOLSTON (fl. 1789-1800)
“Sonnet to the Memory of Falconer, Author of the Shipwreck”
ANN YEARSLEY (1756-1806)
“Thoughts on the Author’s Own Death. Written when very Young”
“To a Friend, on Valentine’s Day”
“Soliloquy”
