Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359)

    • POEMS, ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS.

    BY ELIZA DAYE.
    'Tis not in artful measures, in the chime
    'And idle tinkling of a minstrel's lyre,
    'To charm His ear, whose eye is on the heart;
    'Whose frown can disappoint the proudest strains,
    'Whose approbation — prosper even mine.'
    COWPER.

    LIVERPOOL, PRINTED BY J. M'CREERY; And Published for the Author, at the SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY, Lancaster; also for Mr. WALMSLEY and Mr. HOLT; for Mr. JONES, Mr. GORE, and Messrs. WRIGHT and ORMANDY, Liverpool; and for Mr. JOHNSON, St. Paul's Church Yard, London. Price Seven Shillings in Boards; Hot-pressed, Seven and Six-pence. 1798.

    • TO THE PUBLIC.

    IT is with humble diffidence I introduce my Poems to the world, confident only of their religious and moral tendency; I rest on that foundation, and willingly submit their other merits to the decision of FAIR CRITICISM.

    If the work should not be found strictly correct, I must, in justice to my printer and myself, name my living at a distance from him; and the frequent and long interruptions my ill health, and other circumstances, have occasioned in the publication, very unfavourable to an uniform correctness.

    I hope my errata will supply any material defects, and for the rest, I resign myself to the candour of the public.

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    • CONTENTS.

    • THE Myrtle,     1
    • Birth-day Ornaments,     6
    • The Laurel,     13
    • Appearance and Reality,     19
    • Family of Adversity,     23
    • To Chloe,     39
    • Sonnet,     41
    • To Anna,     42
    • Song,     44
    • To Belinda,     45
    • Extempore lines to a young lady, with an anemone,     47
    • To Amanda on her recovery from sickness,     48
    • On the sudden death of a friend,     51
    • To the memory of the late Rev. C. R — — m,     53
    • The three lamps, or the hermit of the wood,     54
    • To Delia,     81
    • To three young ladies, on their birth-day,     84
    • Sonnets,     86
    • To Eliza S — —     91
    • Two pieces to a friend,     94
    • Ode to Hope,     96
    • Written at W — — y C — — g, in October at sunset,     99
    • At the same place,     102
    • On the death of Mr. George Kendall,     104
    • Wit and Judgment,     106
    • A last visit to W — y C — g, on the sickness of Mrs W — y,     112
    • On the death of a young gentleman,     115
    • On the death of Mrs. Miriam Gillison,     117
    • On the death of Mrs. Anne Gillison,     119
    • To the memory of a friend of my early youth,     122
    • [Page [xii]]The birth of Genius,     124
    • Extempore lines on seeing Mrs. Siddons in Belvidera,     152
    • Sonnets,     154
    • Soliloquy,     164
    • On friendship,     167
    • On the death of an amiable youth,     169
    • Song,     171
    • The question,     174
    • Sonnet,     176
    • Upon a young bee,     178
    • On finding a strayed child,     180
    • William and Ellen, a ballad,     182
    • Sonnets and Songs,     192
    • Ode to Health,     202
    • To a sick friend,     204
    • Thoughts before the interment of a friend,     206
    • On the inscription on my mother's monument being defaced,     208
    • Hymns, adapted to several occasions,     210
    • Lancaster Castle,     253

    • ERRATA.

    • Page 8, line 4, read adorn'd, for edged.
    •                     8,         They tremble as they.
    •          9,         7,         When winding.
    •                     8,         Upon for on.
    •         54,        4,          Then, for Since.
    •         58,       11,         Mariner.
    •                    12,         trusts and counts.
    •         63,        8,         inspiring.
    •         69,        2,          chains.
    •         70,        9,          charms adorn.
    •         71,        4,          others.
    •                     5,          each word.
    •         72,        3,          said.
    •         74,       13,         humble.
    •         76,        5          cries.
    •         89,        9,          Omit one of the articles.
    •         93,        4,          is, for are.
    •       102,      13,          powers.
    •       103,      11,          Place the comma after like.
    •                   13,          tree.
    •       127,        2,          displays.
    •       128,       23,         light, for night.
    •       133,       21,         charms are.
    •       135,        1,          modest doubts, for diffidence.
    •       147,        1,          nymphs.
    •       150,        1,          He, for She.
    •                      8,          Only a comma, and no break in the paragraph.
    •       153,        8,          forget.
    •       164,        3,          all, for each.
    •                   17,          they, for each.
    •       168,        7,          known.
    •       216,       10,         you, for yon.
    •       231,       19,         design'd.
    •       233,       13,         possest, for the best.
    •                    16,         Must, for that.
    •       239,        6,          shalt.
    •       250,       11,         my contrite prayers.
    •       255,        7,          as memory's tints are found.

    • POEMS.

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  • [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage.
  • THE BIRTH-DAY ORNAMENTS.
  • THE LAUREL.
  • APPEARANCE AND REALITY.
  • THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY.
  • CHLOE.
  • TO — — —
  • TO ANNA.
  • SONG.
  • TO BELINDA.
  • EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone.
  • TO AMANDA, On her recovery from sickness.
  • ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —.
  • THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD.
  • LEGEND.
  • TO DELIA.
  • ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • TO ELIZA S — —.
  • TO — — —.
  • TO THE SAME.
  • ODE TO HOPE.
  • WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET
  • AT THE SAME PLACE.
  • OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice.
  • WIT AND JUDGMENT.
  • MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y.
  • ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
  • OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON.
  • ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON.
  • TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young.
  • THE BIRTH OF GENIUS.
  • THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET TO CELIA.
  • TO THE SAME.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • SOLILOQUY.
  • ON FRIENDSHIP.
  • THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY.
  • SONG.
  • THE QUESTION.
  • SONNET.
  • LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child.
  • ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD.
  • WILLIAM AND ELLEN.
  • SONNET.
  • SONG.
  • SONG.
  • SONNET.
  • SONNET.
  • SONG.
  • ODE TO HEALTH.
  • TO A SICK FRIEND.
  • THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND.
  • UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED.

    • HYMNS.

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    END OF THE HYMNS.
  • ATTENDANCE UPON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS.
  • FOR EASTER SUNDAY.
  • HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool.
  • A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY.
  • A HYMN IN SICKNESS.
  • FOR SUNDAY.
  • HYMN FOR SUNDAY.
  • ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD.
  • HIS IMMENSITY.
  • OMNISCIENCE.
  • WISDOM.
  • THE GOODNESS OF GOD.
  • POWER AND PROVIDENCE.
  • MERCY.
  • RESIGNATION.
  • MORNING HYMN.
  • MORNING HYMN.
  • HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING.
  • A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS.
  • EVENING HYMN.
  • AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS.
    • END OF THE HYMNS.
  • LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT.
    • THE END.