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Title: [Verses on a Yorkist's presenting a red [sic] rose to his mistress of the
House of Lancaster (index)]
Author: Somervile, William
Attribution: Baldwin's London Weekly Journal, [Saturday] Jan.31, 1778, no.848, p.4 col.2,
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Comparing a white rose unfavourably with the whiteness of a lady's bosom.
First stanza only of Somervile's poem.
Title: An address to my elbow-chair, lately newcloath'd
Author: Somervile, William
Date(s): 172- or 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: In praise of a re-upholstered chair, once neglected, and the refuge from worldly care to be found in it now that the vanity of youth has passed
Title: To the author of the Essays upon Man
Author: Somervile, William
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 72
Contents: In praise of the combination of wisdom, ethics and poetry in Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, and for its teaching mankind the nature of God's works
Title: A Yorkist to a Lancastrian lady with a white rose
Author: Somervile, William
Attribution: A Yorkist
Date(s): 1727 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Comparing a white rose unfavourably with the whiteness of a lady's bosom.
First stanza only of Somervile's poem.