Poems

by Matilda Betham

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ADVERTISEMENT.

Before this book was printed, I thoughtlessly concluded there must be a preface; but, on consideration, see no particular purpose it would answer, and gladly decline a task I should have undertaken with much timidity and reluctance. All I feel necessary to premise, is, that the tale in the Old Shepherd's Recollections is founded on an event which happened in Ireland; and that last spring I suppressed the song ending in page 65 [The Old Man's Farewell], some time after it had been in the hands of the composer, from meeting accidentally with a quotation in a magazine that resembled it.

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CONTENTS.

• POEMS.—
  • [The Old Fisherman]
  • [Lines to Mrs. Radcliffe, on first reading The Mysteries of Udolpho]
  • [The Heir]
  • [To a Llangollen Rose, the day after it had been given me by Miss Ponsonby]
  • [L'Homme de l'Ennui]
  • [The Grandfather's Departure]
  • [Reflections occasioned by the Death of Friends]
  • [To Mrs. T. Fancourt]
  • [To a Young Gentleman]
  • [Fragment]
• SONGS.—
  • ["Thrice lovely Babe"]
  • ["What do I love?"]
  • [A Sailor's Song]
  • [Another]
  • [Once more, then farewell!]
  • [Henry, on the Departure of his Wife from Calcutta]
  • [Sonnet]
  • [On the Regret of Youth]
  • [Elegy on Sophia Graham]
  • [To Miss Rouse Boughton]
  • [To the Same]
  • [To the River which separates itself from the Dee at Bedkellert]
  • [The Old Man's Farewell]
  • [Song—Distance from the Place of our Nativity.]
  • [The Old Shepherd's Recollections]
  • [Reflection]
  • [Retrospect of Youth]
  • [The Daughter]
  • [Youth unsuspicious of evil]
  • [The Mother]
  • [Edgar and Ellen]

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POEMS.

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THE OLD FISHERMAN.