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Original Sonnets on Various Subjects

by Anna Seward

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  1. 1Epigraph — Preface
  2. 2To Miss Seward
  3. 3Verses
  4. 4Sonnet I
  5. 5Sonnet II
  6. 6Sonnet III — Written at Buxton in a Rainy Season
  7. 7Sonnet IV — To Honora Sneyd, Whose Health Was Always Best in Winter
  8. 8Sonnet V — To a Friend, Who Thinks Sensibility a Misfortune
  9. 9Sonnet VI — Written at Lichfield, in an Eastern Apartment of the Bi…
  10. 10Sonnet VII
  11. 11Sonnet VIII — Translation
  12. 12Sonnet IX
  13. 13Sonnet X — To Honora Sneyd
  14. 14Sonnet XI
  15. 15Sonnet XII
  16. 16Sonnet XIII
  17. 17Sonnet XIV
  18. 18Sonnet XV — Written on Rising Ground Near Lichfield
  19. 19Sonnet XVI — Translated From Boileau
  20. 20Sonnet XVII
  21. 21Sonnet XVIII — An Evening in November, Which Had Been Stormy, Gradu…
  22. 22Sonnet XIX
  23. 23Sonnet XX — On Reading a Description of Pope’s Gardens at Twickenham
  24. 24Sonnet XXI
  25. 25Sonnet XXII — Subject Continued
  26. 26Sonnet XXIII — To Miss E. S.
  27. 27Sonnet XXIV — Translation
  28. 28Sonnet XXV
  29. 29Sonnet XXVI
  30. 30Sonnet XXVII
  31. 31Sonnet XXVIII
  32. 32Sonnet XXIX — Subject Continued
  33. 33Sonnet XXX
  34. 34Sonnet XXXI — To the Departing Spirit of an Alienated Friend
  35. 35Sonnet XXXII — Subject of the Preceding Sonnet Continued
  36. 36Sonnet XXXIII
  37. 37Sonnet XXXIV
  38. 38Sonnet XXXV — Spring
  39. 39Sonnet XXXVI — Summer
  40. 40Sonnet XXXVII — Autumn
  41. 41Sonnet XXXVIII — Winter
  42. 42Sonnet XXXIX — Winter Evening
  43. 43Sonnet XL — December Morning
  44. 44Sonnet XLI — Invitation to a Friend
  45. 45Sonnet XLII
  46. 46Sonnet XLIII — To May, in the Year 1783
  47. 47Sonnet XLIV
  48. 48Sonnet XLV
  49. 49Sonnet XLVI
  50. 50Sonnet XLVII — On Mr. Sargent’s Dramatic Poem, the Mine
  51. 51Sonnet XLVIII
  52. 52Sonnet XLIX — On the Use of New and Old Words in Poetry
  53. 53Sonnet L
  54. 54Sonnet LI — To Sylvia on Her Approaching Nuptials
  55. 55Sonnet LII
  56. 56Sonnet LIII — Written in the Spring 1785 on the Death of the Poet L…
  57. 57Sonnet LIV — A Persian King to His Son
  58. 58Sonnet LV — On the Quick Transition From Winter to Summer in the Ye…
  59. 59Sonnet LVI — To a Timid Young Lady, Distressed by the Attentions of…
  60. 60Sonnet LVII — Written the Night Preceding the Funeral of Mrs. Charl…
  61. 61Sonnet LVIII
  62. 62Sonnet LIX
  63. 63Sonnet LX
  64. 64Sonnet LXI — To Mr. Henry Cary, on Reading His Sonnets Written at S…
  65. 65Sonnet LXII
  66. 66Sonnet LXIII — To Colebrooke Dale
  67. 67Sonnet LXIV — To Mr. Henry Cary, on the Publication of His Sonnets
  68. 68Sonnet LXV — To the Same
  69. 69Sonnet LXVI
  70. 70Sonnet LXVII — On Doctor Johnson’s Unjust Criticisms in His Lives o…
  71. 71Sonnet LXVIII — On the Posthumous Fame of Doctor Johnson
  72. 72Sonnet LXIX — To a Young Lady, Purposing to Marry a Man of Immoral…
  73. 73Sonnet LXX — To a Young Lady in Affliction, Who Fancied She Should…
  74. 74Sonnet LXXI — To the Poppy
  75. 75Sonnet LXXII — Written in the Rainy Summer of 1789
  76. 76Sonnet LXXIII — Translation
  77. 77Sonnet LXXIV
  78. 78Sonnet LXXV — Subject Continued
  79. 79Sonnet LXXVI — The Critics of Doctor Johnson’s School
  80. 80Sonnet LXXVII
  81. 81Sonnet LXXVIII
  82. 82Sonnet LXXIX
  83. 83Sonnet LXXX
  84. 84Sonnet LXXXI — On a Lock of Miss Sarah Seward’s Hair Who Died in He…
  85. 85Sonnet LXXXII
  86. 86Sonnet LXXXIII — On Catania and Syracuse Swallowed Up by Earthquake
  87. 87Sonnet LXXXIV
  88. 88Sonnet LXXXV — To March
  89. 89Sonnet LXXXVI — To the Lake of Killarney
  90. 90Sonnet LXXXVII — To a Young Lady, Addressed by a Gentleman Celebrat…
  91. 91Sonnet LXXXVIII — The Prospect a Flooded Vale
  92. 92Sonnet LXXXIX — Subject Continued
  93. 93Sonnet XC — Subject Continued
  94. 94Sonnet XCI
  95. 95Sonnet XCII
  96. 96Sonnet XCIII
  97. 97Sonnet XCIV
  98. 98Sonnet XCV
  99. 99Sonnet XCVI
  100. 100Sonnet XCVII — To a Coffin-Lid
  101. 101Sonnet XCVIII
  102. 102Sonnet XCIX — On the Violent Thunder Storms
  103. 103Sonnet C — Written December 1790
  104. 104Paraphrases and Imitations of Horace Preface
  105. 105Odes From Horace. To Mæcenas
  106. 106To Pyrrha
  107. 107To Munatius Plancus
  108. 108To Lydia
  109. 109To Thaliarchus
  110. 110To Leuconoe
  111. 111To Apollo
  112. 112To His Attendant
  113. 113To Sallust
  114. 114To the Hon. Thomas Erskine
  115. 115To Barine
  116. 116To Titus Valgius
  117. 117To Licinius Murena
  118. 118To Mæcenas
  119. 119To Posthumus
  120. 120To Lyce
  121. 121To the Fountain of Blandusia
  122. 122To Telephus
  123. 123To Phidyle
  124. 124To Melpomene
  125. 125To William Hayley, Esq.
  126. 126To Liguria
  127. 127To Phyllis
  128. 128On the Pleasures of Rural Life
  129. 129To Neaēra
  130. 130To the Roman People

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