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Blamire, Susanna, 1747-1794. The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire “The muse of Cumberland.” Now for the first time collected by Henry Lonsdale, M.D. with a preface, memoir, and notes by Patrick Maxwell, ... Edinburgh: John Menzies, 61 Princes Street; R. Tyas, London; D. Robertson, Glasgow; and C. Thurnam, Carlisle. MDCCCXLII., 1842, pp. 252-253.  (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [42.256].)

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• 'TWAS WHEN THE SUN SLID DOWN YON HILL. ()
• ADDRESS TO HEALTH. — 1784. ()
• ADDRESS TO MISS J. GALE ON HER MARRIAGE WITH THE REV. F. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET. ()
• THE ADIEU AND RECALL TO LOVE. ()
• AE NIGHT IN DARK DECEMBER. ()
• AGAIN MAUN ABSENCE CHILL MY SOUL. ()
• THE AULD CARLE WAD TAK ME FAIN. ()
• AULD ROBIN FORBES. ()
• BARLEY BROTH. ()
• BEHOLD, MY AMANDA. ()
• THE BOWER OF ELEGANCE. ADDRESSED TO A VERY ACCOMPLISHED WOMAN. ()
• BRIDE-CAKE. ()
• A CALL TO HOPE. 22D MAY, 1792. ()
• A CAUTION TO MISS B. ()
• THE CHELSEA PENSIONERS. ()
• COME, MORTALS, ENLIVEN THE HOUR. ()
• THE CUMBERLAND SCOLD. ()
• A CURE FOR LOVE. ()
• DEAR NANCY. ()
• THE DESCENT OF PITY. 20TH NOVEMBER, 1781. ()
• EDWIN AND ALICIA. A TALE. ()
• AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS DACRE. ()
• EPISTLE TO HER FRIENDS AT GARTMORE. ()
• AN EPISTLE TO MISS ISABELLA GRAHAM OF GARTMORE. ()
• THE FAREWELL TO AFFECTION. ()
• FOR THE CARLISLE HUNT. November, 1788 ()
• HAD MY DADDIE LEFT ME GEAR ENOUGH. ()
• HOPE. ()
• I AM OF A TEMPER FIXED AS A DECREE. ()
• I'LL HAE A NEW COATIE. ()
• I'M TIBBY FOWLER O' THE GLEN. ()
• I'VE GOTTEN A ROCK, I'VE GOTTEN A REEL. ()
• IN THAT EYE WHERE EXPRESSION. ()
• IN THE DREAM OF THE MOMENT. ()
• IN THE SEARCH OF GOOD HUMOUR. ()
• THE INVITATION. TO TWO SISTERS. ()
• LETTERS OF THE LOVERS. ()
• THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, CHOSEN THE EMBLEM OF INNOCENCE. ()
• THE LILY'S TRIUMPH OVER THE ROSE. ()
• THE LOSS OF THE ROEBUCK. ()
• MAY NOT THE LOVE OF PRAISE BE AN INCENTIVE TO VIRTUE? ()
• THE MEETING. ()
• MOONLIGHT. ()
• THE NABOB. ()
• NAY, NAY, CENSOR TIME. ()
• NOW SANDY MAUN AWA. ()
• THE NUN'S RETURN TO THE WORLD, BY THE DECREE OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE, FEBRUARY, 1790. ()
• O BID ME NOT TO WANDER. Written when earnestly entreated to go to the South of France for the recovery of her health. ()
• O DINNA THINK, MY BONNIE LASS. ()
• O JENNY DEAR, I'VE COURTED LANG. ()
• O JENNY DEAR, THE WORD IS GANE. ()
• O JENNY DEAR. ()
• O THERE IS NOT A SHARPER DART. ()
• O WHERE IS THE SPLENDOUR. ()
• O WHY SHOULD MORTALS SUFFER CARE. ()
• OLD HARRY'S RETURN. ()
• ON COLLINS'S ODE ON THE PASSIONS, AS RECITED BY MRS ESTEN ()
• ON IMAGINED HAPPINESS IN HUMBLE STATIONS. ()
• ON THE DANGEROUS ILLNESS OF MY FRIEND MRS L. 13TH MAY, 1788. ()
• ON THE MARRIAGE OF MISS JOHANNA GALE WITH THE REV. P. GRAHAM, RECTOR OF ARTHURET. 18TH FEBRUARY, 1792. ()
• A PETITION TO APRIL. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS, 1793. ()
• PITY'S DESCENT TO EARTH, AND ADVICE TO FRIENDSHIP. ()
• THE RECALL TO AFFECTION. ()
• THE SILLER CROUN. ()
• THE SOLDIER'S RETURN. ()
• SPRING. APRIL, 1786. ()
• STOKLEWATH; OR, THE CUMBRIAN VILLAGE. ()
• THOUGH BACCHUS MAY BOAST. ()
• TO A LADY WHO WENT INTO THE COUNTRY IN APRIL. ()
• TO A LADY, WHO FREQUENTLY WITHDREW FROM COMPANY. ()
• TO THE FLOWER LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, AND A PETITION TO THE FAIRIES TO BRING INDIFFERENCE. ()
• TO-MORROW. WRITTEN DURING SICKNESS. ()
• THE TOILING DAY HIS TASK HAS DUIN. ()
• THE WAEFU' HEART. ()
• WE'VE HED SEC A DURDUM. ()
• WEY, NED, MAN! ()
• WHAT AILS THIS HEART O' MINE! ()
• WHEN HOME WE RETURN. ()
• WHEN NIGHT'S DARK MANTLE. ()
• WHEN SEVEREST FOES IMPENDING. ()
• WHEN THE SOFT TEAR STEALS SILENTLY. ()
• WHEN THE SUNBEAMS OF JOY. ()
• WRITTEN IN A CHURCHYARD, ON SEEING A NUMBER OF CATTLE GRAZING IN IT. ()
• WRITTEN ON A GLOOMY DAY, IN SICKNESS. THACKWOOD, 4TH JUNE, 1786. ()