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Helen Maria Williams
1761 or 1762 – 1827
Poetry Listing
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Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.
Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.
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Read More About Helen Maria Williams below poetry list
| Poem Title | First Lines | Period | # Lines | # Reads | | 1: A Hymn. | While thee I seek, protecting Power! | | 24 | 15 | | 2: A Song. | No riches from his scanty store | | 24 | 18 | | 3: An American Tale. | Ah! pity all the pangs I feel, | | 124 | 17 | | 4: An Epistle To Dr. Moore, Author Of A View Of Society And Manners In France, Switzerland, And Germany. | I mean no giddy heights to climb, | | 244 | 20 | | 5: An Epistle To Dr. Moore. | Whether dispensing hope, and ease | | 6 | 18 | | 6: An Ode On The Peace. | As wand'ring late on Albion's shore | | 256 | 19 | | 7: Edwin And Eltruda, A Legendary Tale. | Where the pure Derwent's waters glide | | 396 | 25 | | 8: Euphelia, An Elegy. | As roam'd a pilgrim o'er the mountain drear, | | 128 | 32 | | 9: Paraphrases From Scripture. ISAIAH xlix. 15. | Heaven speaks! Oh Nature listen and rejoice! | | 62 | 19 | | 10: Paraphrases From Scripture. MATT. vii. 12. | Precept divine! to earth in mercy given, | | 44 | 20 | | 11: Paraphrases From Scripture. PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17. | My God! all nature owns thy sway, | | 32 | 16 | | 12: Part Of An Irregular Fragment, Found In A Dark Passage Of The Tower. | Rise, winds of night! relentless tempests rise! | | 208 | 19 | | 13: Peru. A Poem, In Six Cantos. | Where the pacific deep in silence laves | | 1584 | 17 | | 14: Peru. Canto The Fifth. | In this sweet scene, to all the virtues kind, | | 347 | 25 | | 15: Peru. Canto The First. | Where the pacific deep in silence laves | | 192 | 30 | | 16: Peru. Canto The Fourth. | Now the stern partner of Pizarro's toils, | | 185 | 18 | | 17: Peru. Canto The Second. | Flush'd with impatient hope, the martial band | | 130 | 21 | | 18: Peru. Canto The Sixth. | At length Almagro, and Alphonso's train, | | 362 | 35 | | 19: Peru. Canto The Third. | Now stern Pizarro seeks the distant plains, | | 177 | 16 | | 20: Queen Mary's Complaint. | Pale moon! thy mild benignant light | | 48 | 43 | | 21: Sonnet To Twilight. | Meek Twilight! soften the declining day, | | 14 | 20 | | 22: Sonnet, To Expression. | Expression, child of soul! I fondly trace | | 14 | 43 | | 23: Sonnet, To Mrs. Bates. | Oh, thou whose melody the heart obeys, | | 14 | 22 | | 24: Sonnet, To Mrs. Siddons. | Siddons! the Muse, for many a joy refin'd, | | 14 | 29 | | 25: To Mrs. Montagu. | While, bending at thy honour'd shrine, the Muse | | 44 | 26 | | 26: To Sensibility. | In Sensibility's lov'd praise | | 84 | 21 |
About:
Helen Maria Williams was a British novelist, poet, and translator of French-language works. A religious dissenter, she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution; she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror, but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France.
A controversial figure in her own time, the young Williams was favorably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth, but she was portrayed by other writers as irresponsibly politically radical and even as sexually wanton.
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