Contents
Contents
- Close section Front Matter
- Close sectionJuvenilia, 1772–1775
- 1 Poetical Essay on Hope
- 2 To Mira
- 3 Solitude
- 4 A Song ('As Chloe fair, a new-made bridge')
- 5 To Emma
- 6 Despair
- 7 Cupid
- 8 Song ('Cease to bid me not to sing')
- 9 The Bee
- 10 An Allegorical Fable
- 11 On Melancholy
- 12 The Devil
- 13 An Elegy on Sophronia
- 14 On the Death of William Springall Levett
- 15 My days, oh you lovers, were happily spent
- 16 The Wish ('My Mira, shepherds, is as fair')
- 17 The gentle Gales that softly move
- 18 Inebriety
- Close sectionMinor Poems, 1766–1782
- 19 A Song ('Myra was gentle, fair, and young')
- 20 Mira
- 21 Ah! Blessed be the days with Mira I took
- 22 The Comparison
- 23 The hour arrived! I sigh'd and said
- 24 Hymn
- 25 The Resurrection
- 26 Proud little Man, opinion's slave
- 27 The Wish ('Give me your Powers that rule in gentle hearts')
- 28 Goldsmith to the Author
- 29 My Birthday
- 30 Fragment written at Midnight
- 31 Life
- 32 The Sacrament
- 33 Night
- 34 [Fragment] ('Void of their Charms the hated Mirror flee')
- 35 Song ('All that through the Valleys glide')
- 36 Lay on the Piano Forte
- 37 Midnight
- 38 The Choice
- 39 The Hero, an Epistle to Prince William Henry
- Close section40 Poetical Epistles
- 41 Time
- 42 'Like some poor Bark on the rough ocean tossed'
- 43 To the Right Honourable The Earl of Shelburne
- 44 An Epistle to a Friend – June 7th
- 45 When summer's tribe, her rosy tribe, are fled
- 46 An Elegy To Love
- 47 The Candidate; A Poetical Epistle
- a. First Version, 1781
- b. Revised Version, from Poems, Second Edition, 1808
- 49 The Village: A Poem
- 50 The News-Paper: A Poem
- Close sectionPoems, 1807
- 58 Hester
- Close section59 The Borough
- Title page
- dedication
- preface
- advertisement
- Letter i. General Description
- Letter ii. The Church
- Letter iii. The Vicar – the Curate, etc.
- Letter iv. Sects and Professions in Religion
- Letter v. Elections
- Letter vi. Professions – Law
- Letter vii. Professions – Physic
- Letter viii. Trades
- Letter ix. Amusements
- Letter x. Clubs and Social Meetings
- Letter xi. Inns
- Letter xii. Players
- Letter xiii. The Alms-House and Trustees
- Letter xiv. Inhabitants of the Alms-House – Blaney
- Letter xv. Inhabitants of the Alms-House – Clelia
- Letter xvi. Inhabitants of the Alms-House – Benbow
- Letter xvii. The Hospital and Governors
- Letter xviii. The Poor and their Dwellings
- Letter xix. The Poor of the Borough – The Parish-Clerk
- Letter xx. The Poor of the Borough – Ellen Orford
- Letter xxi. The Poor of the Borough – Abel Keene
- Letter xxii. The Poor of the Borough – Peter Grimes
- Letter xxiii. Prisons
- Letter xxiv. Schools
- Close section End Matter
