Sixty-nine poems by six of the most admired women Romantic writers-English, Scottish, Irish, and American: Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworth's sister), Joanna Baillie, Eliza Townsend, Mary Tighe, Sara Coleridge (Samuel Taylor Coleridge's daughter), and Caroline Bowles Southey. Each in her own way, they all broke with the poetic conventions of the past, writing in ordinary language about ordinary people, and approaching the traditional subjects of poetry with fresh eyes. Comedy and tragedy, love and hatred, life and death, oppression and freedom-they're all here. Introduction to Dorothy Wordsworth
The Cottager to Her Infant
Address to a Child During a Boisterous Winter Evening
The Mother's Return
Loving and Liking: Irregular Verses Addressed to a Child
Floating Island
The Worship of the Sabbath Morn
Introduction to Joanna Baillie
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
An Address to the Night: A Fearful Mind
An Address to the Night: A Discontented Mind
An Address to the Night: A Sorrowful Mind
An Address to the Night: A Joyful Mind
"Song to Cupid" from "Bezel" - Act 3, Scene 3
Song from "The Country Inn" - Act 2, Scene 1
Song from "The Phantom" - Act 1, Scene 4
Song of the Outlaws from "Horror" - Act 3, Scene 1
Song from "The Bride" - Act 1, Scene 2
London
To a Child
The Pursuit of Love
Hymn
Introduction to Eliza Townsend
To A.T. on His Importing the Writer to Compose Something of Magnitude
The Rainbow, 1813
Incomprehensibility of God
Introduction to Mary Tighe
Excerpts from "Psyche"
"The Power of Love to Soften Adversity" from "Canto VI"
Sonnet
Written in the Church Yard at Malvern
To Time
Sonnet
To Blake
The World, 1803
The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill
Hagar in the Desert
The Lily, May 1809
Introduction to Sara Coleridge
L'Envoy to Phantasmion
Dedication to Pretty Verses for Good Children
The Storm
The Suspicious Cock and Hen
The Mad Bull
The Mouse's Retaliation
The Wild and Tame Canaries
The Generous, Humble, or Bumble Bees
Going to Bed
The Gold Finch, or Thistle Finch
The Happy Little Sleeper
Providence
Childish Tears
Introduction to Caroline Bowles Southey
The Hedgehog
The River
To Death
Once Upon a Time...
William Gilpin from "The Birth-day"
To a Young South-American Spaniard
To a Centenarian on Her 100th Birthday
To Emily
That's What We Are
I Weep, but Not Rebellious Tears
Past and Present
To a Widowed Friend, November 1845
Written in the Flyleaf of My Father's Old Copy of Izaak Walton's "The Compleat Angler"
On Hearing for the First Time, the Bells from a New Church
A Pleasant Cloud Land
Unthinking Youth
Forgive O' Father
On, On, Upon Our Mortal Course We Go
Patient, I am, Resigned and Calm
To an Old Family Portrait
We Came Together at Life's Even Tide
On My Husband's Birthday
