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Williams, Helen Maria, 1759-1827. Poems on various subjects: with introductory remarks on the present state of science and literature in France. London: G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823, p. 218.  (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [8º W 229 BS].)

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Other works by Helen Maria Williams

• AN ADDRESS TO POETRY. ()
• AN AMERICAN TALE. ()
• THE BASTILLE, A VISION. ()
• THE CHARTER; ADDRESSED TO MY NEPHEW ATHANASE C. L. COQUEREL, ON HIS WEDDING DAY, 1819. ()
• THE COMPLAINT OF THE GODDESS OF THE GLACIERS TO DOCTOR DARWIN. ()
• DULCE DOMUM, AN OLD LATIN ODE. ()
• DUNCAN, AN ODE. ()
• EDWIN AND ELTRADA, A LEGENDARY TALE. (); EDWIN AND ELTRUDA. ()
• ELEGY ON A YOUNG THRUSH, WHICH ESCAPED FROM THE WRITER'S HAND, AND FALLING DOWN THE AREA OF A HOUSE, COULD NOT BE FOUND. ()
• EUPHELIA, AN ELEGY. ()
• HYMN, IMITATED FROM THE FRENCH. ()
• HYMN, WRITTEN AMONG THE ALPS. ()
• A HYMN. ()
• IMITATION OF LINES ADDRESSED BY M. D—, A YOUNG MAN OF TWENTY-FOUR YEARS OF AGE, THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, TO A YOUNG LADY TO WHOM HE WAS ENGAGED. — 1794. ()
• IMITATION OF LINES WRITTEN BY ROUCHER, BELOW HIS PICTURE, WHICH A FELLOW-PRISONER HAD DRAWN, AND WHICH HE SENT TO HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN THE DAY BEFORE HIS EXECUTION. — 1794. ()
• LINES ADDRESSED TO A. C., AN INFANT, ON HIS FIRST NEW-YEAR'S DAY, 1821. ()
• LINES ON THE TOMB OF A FAVOURITE DOG. ()
• LINES TO HELEN, A NEW-BORN INFANT, 1821. ()
• LINES WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF THE BARONESS D' H——, TO HER TWO DAUGHTERS. ()
• LINES WRITTEN ON THE PILLAR ERECTING TO THE MEMORY OF MR. BARLOW, Minister of the United States at Paris, WHO DIED AT NAROWITCH IN POLAND, ON HIS RETURN FROM WILNA, DEC. 26, 1812. ()
• THE LINNET AND THE CAT. ()
• THE MORAI. ()
• ODE TO PEACE. ()
• ON THE BILL WHICH WAS PASSED IN ENGLAND FOR REGULATING THE SLAVE-TRADE; A SHORT TIME BEFORE ITS ABOLITION. ()
• PARAPHRASE. ()
• PARAPHRASE. ()
• PARAPHRASE. ()
• PARAPHRASE. ()
• PART OF AN IRREGULAR FRAGMENT. ()
• PERUVIAN TALES. ()
• QUEEN MARY'S COMPLAINT. ()
• SCOTCH BALLAD. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONG. ()
• SONNET ON READING BURNS' “MOUNTAIN DAISY.” ()
• SONNET TO DISAPPOINTMENT. ()
• SONNET TO EXPRESSION. ()
• SONNET TO HOPE. ()
• SONNET TO LOVE. ()
• SONNET TO MRS. BATES. ()
• SONNET TO MRS. SIDDONS. ()
• SONNET TO PEACE OF MIND. ()
• SONNET TO SIMPLICITY. ()
• SONNET TO THE CALBASSIA-TREE. ()
• SONNET TO THE CURLEW. ()
• SONNET TO THE MOON. ()
• SONNET TO THE STRAWBERRY. ()
• SONNET TO THE TORRID ZONE. ()
• SONNET TO TWILIGHT. ()
• TO A FRIEND, WHO SENT ME FLOWERS, WHEN CONFINED BY ILLNESS. ()
• TO DR. MOORE, IN ANSWER TO A POETICAL EPISTLE WRITTEN TO ME BY HIM IN WALES, SEPTEMBER 1791. ()
• TO JAMES FORBES, ESQ. Author of “The Oriental Memoirs,” WHO ASKED FOR SOME LINES OF MY HAND-WRITING ON LEAVING FRANCE, AFTER HIS CAPTIVITY AT VERDUN. ()
• TO JAMES FORBES, ESQ. ON HIS BRINGING ME FLOWERS FROM VAUCLUSE, AND WHICH HE HAD PRESERVED BY MEANS OF AN INGENIOUS PROCESS IN THEIR ORIGINAL BEAUTY. ()
• TO MRS. K—, ON HER SENDING ME ENGLISH CHRISTMAS PLUMB-CAKE, AT PARIS. ()
• TO SENSIBILITY. ()
• TO THE BARON DE HUMBOLDT, ON HIS BRINGING ME SOME FLOWERS IN MARCH. ()
• THE TRAVELLERS IN HASTE; ADDRESSED TO THOMAS CLARKSON, ESQ. IN 1814, WHEN MANY ENGLISH ARRIVED AT PARIS, BUT REMAINED A VERY SHORT TIME. ()
• VERSES ADDRESSED TO MY TWO NEPHEWS, ON SAINT HELEN'S DAY, 1809. ()