Poems

Epistle [Love].

Transcribed from Pope, Alexander, "Popeana. Letters." The altar of love... vol. 2, 1727, p. 19. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111079145.

Epitaph [Family]. 

Transcribed from "Nettlebed, Oxfordshire." Select and remarkable epitaphs on illustrious and other persons, in several parts of Europe... vol. 2, 1757, p. 202. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0102442998. 

Epitaph.

Transcribed from 'On Dr. Johnson. Said to be written by Soame Jenyns Esqre." Brotherton Lt. 99, p. 114. Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

Epigram [Humour; Music, song, opera]. 

Transcribed from "On a Music and Dancing Master..." The Brittanic magazine..., vol. 9 , [1793–1807], p. 332. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0125863368.

Ballad; Hymn [Death, afterlife; Devotional writing, religious belief; Nature; Travel].

Transcribed from A Select collection of modern poems. By the most eminent hands. Viz. Milton. Mr. Prior.... 2nd ed., 1750, pp. 191–192. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CB0130548092. 

Elegy [Illness; Death, afterlife].

Transcribed from "The Progress of Life." Secret memoirs and manners of several persons of quality... From the New Atalantis... Delariviere Manley, 1709, pp. 169–171. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CB0128106258.

Ode [Death, afterlife]. 

Transcribed from Collins, William. "Ode Written in the beginning of the Year 1746." Odes on several descriptive and allegorical subjects, 1747, p. 19. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0115231278.

Lyric [Solitude, loneliness, retirement; Historical subjects; Devotional writing, religious belief]

Transcribed from Cowper, William, "Verses, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during his solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandez." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., 1782, pp. 305–308. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0113895452.

Prayer [Women; Courtship, marriage; Domestic life]. 

Usually accompanied by Hervey's Answer, "Nature, perversly to your wish, has given..." 

Transcribed from "The Wish of Miss M—n, Daughter to the Lord L— M—." The gentleman's miscellany, In Verse and Prose... ed. Sir Butterfly Maggot, 1730, p. 43. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0117223459.

Occasional (complimenting the book's compiler) [Literature; Classical themes; Love]

Transcribed from Leeds Brotherton Lt 119, pp. 101–102. 

Epigram; Satire [Humour, wordplay; Public affairs; Satire - religious]. 

Transcribed from "The Catholic," The first part of miscellany poems. Containing variety of new translations of the ancient poets: together with several original poems. By the most eminent hands. Publish'd by Mr. Dryden, 1716, p. 403. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CB0132026648. Please note the first line in this miscellany is "I hold as faith," but it has been replaced with the more common "I hold for faith" on this database for easy identification in manuscript verse miscellanies.

Sonnet [Nature]. 

Transcribed from Smith, Charlotte Turner. "Sonnet." Emmeline, the orphan of the castle. By Charlotte Smith. In four volumes, vol. 4, 1788, p. 147. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0110676128.

Epigram; Satire [Public affairs; Satire - political; Humour, wordplay].

This poem is frequently titled "The Ambodexter" because it can be read two ways (with antithetical meanings).

Note: This record only accounts for this particular version of the poem. Other variants (such as, "I love with all my heart/ The loyal party here...") are also popular with manuscript verse miscellany compilers.

Occasional (concluding the manuscript book) [Literature], original. 

Transcribed from Huntington MS 106, p. 369.

Satire [Public affairs; Satire - political]. 

Transcribed from S. H., "To all whom it may concern to know me, Greeting." Universal Spectator and Weekly Journal, no. 2, p. 3, 1728. Burney Newspapers Collection, GALE|Z2001494968. 

Riddle [Women]. 

Transcribed from Thomas, Elizabeth Amherst. "A Prize Riddle on Herself when 24." Eighteenth-Century Women Poets. ed. Roger Lonsdale, Oxford University Press, 1990, p. 180.

Epigram [Love; Public affairs; Humour, wordplay]. 

Transcribed from Somervile, William. "Lines supposed to have been written in the 15th century, by the Duke of Clarence ... of the House of York, and sent, with a Rose, to Lady Eliza Beauchamp, daughter to the Duke of Somerset..." Select epigrams. In two volumes... vol. 2, 1797, pp. 94–95. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0114976089.

Prologue [Literature; Conduct, morality]; original. 

Transcribed from Leeds Brotherton Lt 53.

Panegyric; Imitation (of "The old Egyptians hid their Wit...") [Visual Arts; Celebrities].

Transcribed from "On Mr Nash's Present of His Own Picture at Full Length, Fixt between the Basto's of Mr Pope, and Sir if. Newton, in the Room at Bath." The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle, vol. 11, February 1741, p. 102. ProQuest, [ProQuest document ID:] 8423994.

Occasional; Epitaph [Death, afterlife].

Transcribed from Leapor, Mary. Poems upon several occasions, 1748, pp. 8–10. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0110271895.

Parody [Public affairs; Drinking, tobacco].

Transcribed from The vicar of bray, 1714. ProQuest, [ProQuest document ID:] 2240931670.

Ode [Literature; Classical themes].

Transcribe from Yorke, Charles. "Stanzas, in the manner of Waller: occasioned by a Receipt to make Ink, given to the Author by a Lady." The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle, vol. 40, January 1770, p. 39. British Periodicals, ProquestID: 8304960. 

Epistle [Passions, Sentiments; Love; Death, afterlife]. 

Transcribed from Pattison, William, "Abelard to Eloisa." The poetical works of Mr. William Pattison, late of Sidney College Cambridge, 1727, pp. 67–77. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111537979.

Occasional (on the composition of an mvm) [Literature; Friendship].

Transcribed from Beinecke Osborn fc51, pp. 1–3. 

Elegy [Love; Death, afterlife; Courtship, marriage].

Transcribed from Rowe, Elizabeth Singer. "To the Memory of Thomas Rowe, Esq;." Philomela: or, poems by Mrs. Elizabeth Singer, (now Rowe,) of Frome in Somersetshire. 2nd ed., 1737, pp. 179–184. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0110246940.