Detail View: Women Poets of the Romantic Period: Poetry for children

Collection Name: 
Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Title: 
Poetry for children
Subtitle: 
consisting of short pieces, to be committed to memory
Name Part: 
Aikin, Lucy
Name Part Date: 
1781-1864
Name Display Form: 
Aikin, Lucy, 1781-1864
Name Role Term Text: 
Authors
Type of Resource: 
Language material
Date Issued: 
1803
Date Created: 
1803
Edition: 
2nd ed., with additions and corrections
Issuance: 
Monograph/item
Place Term: 
England--London
Publisher: 
And sold by B. Tabart, No. 157, New-Bond-Street
Publisher: 
Printed for R. Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Language Term: 
English
Form: 
electronic
Internet Media Type: 
application/pdf
Extent: 
xii, 168 p. ; 15 cm
Digital Origin: 
reformatted digital
Table of Contents: 
The Beggar-Man / Original -- The Cuckoo / Logan -- The Grasshopper / Cowley -- Hymn / Oratorio Of Abel -- The Fly / Anonymous -- The Blind Boy / Cibber -- The Bulfinch In Town / Lady Luxborough -- The Kid / Shenstone -- The First Of April / Warton -- India / Original -- Midnight / Dryden -- Fortitude / Mrs. Barbauld -- To Morning / Mason -- Trees And Plants / Prior -- The Thrush / Williams -- The Dead Sparrow / Anonymous -- The Swallow / Original -- Ode On Solitude / Pope -- Spring / Mrs. Barbauld -- The Mouse's Petition / Mrs. Barbauld -- Birds / Mrs. Barbauld -- Insects / Mrs. Barbauld -- The Frozen Shower / A. Phillips -- False Greatness / Watts -- The Old Man's Comforts / Anthology -- The Traveller's Return / Anthology -- To Fortune / Thomson -- Day And Night / Gay -- The Tame Stag / Gay -- The Lion And The Fawns / Pope's Homer -- The Deer And The Savage Beasts / Pope's Homer -- The Ass / Pope's Homer -- Harvest / Pope's Homer -- The Piedmontese And His Marmot / Original -- Moonlight / Pope's Homer -- Snow / Pope's Homer -- The Torrent / Pitt's Virgil -- The Caged Lark / Anon. -- The Beagle and Fawn / Pope's Homer -- The Horse / Pope's Homer -- The Sailor / Anon. -- The Midsummer Wish / Croxall -- The War Horse / Dryden's Virgil -- The Chariot-Race / Dryden's Virgil -- The Polar Winter / Dryden's Virgil -- The Alps At Day-Break / Rogers -- The Olive / Pope's Homer -- A Wish / Rogers -- Pity / Darwin -- Ascending The Alps / Pope -- Four Seasons / Williams -- A Wish / Williams -- A Storm / Dryden's Virgil -- Hassan, Or The Camel Driver / Collins -- The Orange Tree / Lord Lyttelton -- The Generation Of Man / Pope's Homer -- Wolves / Thomson -- A Flood / Pope's Homer -- The Fly / Anon. -- To A Bee / Anthology -- The Cranes / Anon -- The Strength Of Virtue / Milton -- The Nightingale / Lee -- The Serpent / Dryden's Virgil -- Content / Williams -- The Summer Evening Walk / White -- Recovery From Sickness / Gray -- The Whirlwind / Dryden's Virgil -- To Leven Water / Smollet -- Hay-Making / Gay -- Noon / Gay -- To A Hedge-Sparrow / Anthology -- The Approach Of A Storm / Dryden -- The Huntsman / Williams -- Constantinople / Scott -- The Thames / Scott -- The Tempestuous Evening / Scott -- The Pleasant Evening / Scott - Description Of A Cottage / Scott -- Another / Scott -- The Hare And Tortoise / Lloyd -- The Orphan Boy / Thelwall -- Against Slavery / Cowper -- The Labour Of Idleness / Miss More -- Day, A Pastoral / Cunningham -- The Beggar's Petition / Anon. -- The Dying Negro / Anon. -- The Beau Disconcerted / Gay -- Exercise / Parnel -- To A Robin Redbreast / Langhorne -- The Emmet / Watts -- The Approach Of Winter / Scott -- The Lark / Whitehead -- Sunshine After A Shower / Warton -- Epitaph On A Lapdog / Blacklock -- Arabia / Original -- Cheerfulness / Bickerstaff -- The Cock / Dryden -- The Fallen Oak / Crabbe -- A Country Life / Brown -- A Grove / Dryden -- The Happy Man / Dryden -- Innocence / Shakespear [Sic] -- A Winter Song / Shakespear [Sic] -- The Vanity Of Greatness / Shirley -- Prince Leeboo / Original -- The Winter Torrent / Dryden -- Hunting The Hare / Somerville -- The Fairy's Song / Anon. -- The Eagle / Congreve -- The Hare / Dryden -- Echo / Addison -- The Florist / B. Jonson -- The Ostrich / Young -- The Peacock / Young -- The Wild Ass / Young -- The Lion / Young -- The Hippopotamus / Young -- The Ship / Anon. -- The Pheasant / Pope -- The Linnet / Anon. -- Fortitude / Dryden -- A Simile / Addison -- The Winter Friend / Original -- Italy / Addison -- War / Addison -- The Palace Of Ice / Cowper -- Liberty / Addison -- Patriotism / Rowe -- Cato / Addison -- —— / Pope -- Fame / Pope -- Sorrow / Addison -- Temperance / Addison -- The African Prince / Addison -- Mountains Of Ice / Pope -- A Storm In A Desert / Addison -- The Starved Goldfinch / Cowper -- The Pineapple And Bee / Cowper -- Folding The Flocks / Fletcher -- Village Sounds / Goldsmith -- A Storm In Harvest / Dryden's Virgil -- Day-Break / Fletcher -- Ocean / Young -- Youth / Dryden -- The Palmetto / Gay -- The Grampus / Darwin -- Sleep / Akenside -- Morning Sounds / Beattie -- The Love Of Praise / Akenside -- Benevolence / Beattie -- Providence / Rowe -- Gratitude / Gray -- True Virtue / Rowe -- Candour / Akenside -- Fortitude / Yalden -- Lapland / Original -- Snow / Congreve -- Midnight / Otway -- Trees / Cowper -- The Spider / Dryden -- The Rose / Anon. -- The Stream of The Desert / Darwin -- The Balloon / Darwin -- English Rivers / Pope -- The Coming of a Shower / Darwin -- The Sweets of Contentment / Anon. -- The Leopard and The Looking Glass / Somerville -- To Winter / Anthology -- —— / Rowe -- The Whale / Darwin -- Morning / Otway -- Vigour of Mind / Rowe -- Canada / Original -- The Thames Frozen Over / Gay -- The Squirrel / Prior -- The Shepherd's Home / Shenstone -- The Town in A Salt Mine / Darwin
Note: 
selected by Lucy Aikin
Note Type: 
Statement of responsibility
Note: 
Publisher's ads: pages [162]-168
Note: 
Citation : Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 71.
Note: 
Cf. Gumuchian, 276
Note: 
"This was considered to be the most important of her books for children"--Osborne
Note: 
Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 49-50
Note: 
First published in 1801; cf. Osborne, cited below
Note: 
On spine: Aikin's poetry
Note: 
Poems written by various authors, including Dryden, Pope, Mrs. Barbauld; some poems are signed "original."
Note: 
Preface dated Sept. 1801
Subject Topic: 
Children's poetry, English
Subject Authority: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023735
Subject Topic: 
English poetry
Subject Authority: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043932
Classification: 
WPRP 297
Classification: 
b35365249
Physical Location: 
University of Colorado Boulder Libraries Rare and Distinctive Collections
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