The collected poems and journals of Mary Tighe

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editorial Note on the Text; Introduction; A Brief Chronology; POETRY; Poems, 1789-1801; August 1789; Good Friday, 1790; To Her Mother. Rossana, 1791; From Metastasio, 1791; Sonnet, March 1791 (""As the frail bark, long tossed by stormy winds""); Verses Written in Solitude, April 1792; March 1793; Sonnet (""As one who late hath lost a friend adored""); To Death; Written at Scarborough; Sonnet (""When glowing Phoebus quits the weeping earth""); Written in Autumn; The Vartree. Sonnet (""Poor, fond deluded heart! wilt thou again"")Written in the Church-yard at Malvern; Verses Written at the Devils Bridge, Cardigansh; When the Bitter Source of Sorrow; Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure; Avails it Ought to Number O'er; Time Fades the Lustre of the Moon; To the Moon; Sympathy; Calm Delight; Song (""See my love, yon angry deep""); To -c- e (""The youth of broken fortunes sent to roam""); The Hours of Peace; La Cittadina: On Leaving Rossana 1798; A Letter from Mrs. Acton to Her Nephew Mr. Evans; Acrostics; There Was a Young Lordling Whose Wits Were All Toss'd Up. Sonnet (""For me would Fancy now her chaplet twine"")To Time; Written at Rossana (""Dear chestnut bower, I hail thy secret shade""); Written at Rossana. November 18,1799; Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800; Written at Killarney. July 29,1800; On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800; Sonnet (""Ye dear associates of my gayer hours""); A Faithful Friend Is the Medicine of Life; The Kiss.-Imitated from Voiture; Sonnet (""As nearer I approach that fatal day""); Psyche, 1801-1802; Psyche; or, the Legend of Love; Preface; Sonnet Addressed to My Mother; Canto I; Canto II; Canto III. Canto IV Canto V; Canto VI; Poems, 1802-1809; Lord of Hearts Benignly Callous; 'Tis Thy Command, and Edwin Shall Obey; The Picture. Written for Angela; Fled Are the Summer Hours of Joy and love; Sonnet ('""Tis past the cruel anguish of suspense"); Oh Seal My Sad and Weary Eyes; Peace, Peace, Nor Utter What I Must Not Hear; But to Have Hung Enamored on Those Lips; Pleasure; Sonnet (""Can I look back, and view with tranquil eye""); 1802 (""Thy Summer's day was long, but coulds't thou think""); Tranquility, 1802; To

(""How hard, with anguish unrevealed"") Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring Pleasure, 1803; The World, 1803; Tho Genius and Fancy Hereafter May Trace; The Old Maid's Prayer to Diana; On a Night-blowing Cereus; To Cowper & His Mary; The Eclipse. Jan. 24,1804; Written for Her Niece S.K.; To Fortune. From Metastasio; To the Memory of Margaret Tighe; Verses Addressed to Henry Vaughan; Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804; Psalm CXXX. Imitated, Jan. 1805; Addressed to My Brother. 1805; Address to the West Wind, Written at Pargate, 1805; Imitation from Boïeldieu; Address to My Harp; Morning