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Title: A Christmas hymn
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem of praise and thanksgiving at Christmas, imagining the blissful
happiness of heaven
Title: Song. 1698
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 1698 (title)
Manuscript: Lt q 38
Contents: Bawdy love poem
Title: A discription of London
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 17--
Manuscript: Lt 47
Contents: Impressionistic description of 18th-century London, its greatly varying urban
buildings, people, and street and social life
Title: On death
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Welcoming the prospect of death as providing rest and relief from all human
suffering and care
Title: An ode to Spring
Author: Ferrar, Martha
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 1758 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: In praise of the beauty of nature in Spring, contrasting its annual renewal
with human transience and mortality
Title: A song
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 103
Contents: Plea by a woman to be protected from the entanglements and emotions of love
Title: On the Word Last
Author: A Lady
Attribution: A Lady (heading); The York Chronicle Dec 31st 1790 (at end)
Date(s): 1790
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: Reflections on the word 'last', considering the transience of life, and the power of virtue to combat fear of death. Preceded by epigraph "What a desolate word is the monosyllable last!", attributed to Miss H. M. Williams.
Title: Sent to Mrs C. W-y-ll. Is Sensibility Conducive to Happiness
Author: A Lady
Attribution: A Lady
Date(s): 179-?
Manuscript: Lt 100
Contents: On the importance of sensibility, i.e. on how feeling another's joy or grief will provoke virtuous responses, yet also on how reason must temper extreme responses. Cf. BCMSV 6138
Title: By a lady
Author: Johnson, Esther;, i.e. Stella ?
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 1724 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Request that as her beauty diminishes her mind should improve
Title: By a lady on her husbands absense on service
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Love poem, lament by a wife during her husband's absence in the navy during a
time of war, hoping for his safety. Refers to Admiral George Anson.
Title: The progress of poetry
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 171- ?
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Chronological survey of the great poets of Greece, Rome and England, from
Homer to Alexander Pope, extravagantly praising those selected (sixteen
English).