Poetical and Prose Compositions. By Mary L. Horton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horton, Mary Lambert, 1805-1831.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Women poets.

Physical Description:

[2], iiii, 88 pages 15 cm

Place of Publication:

Salem, W. & S. B. Ives, 1832.

Contents:

Moonlight Reveries

The Rejected

Ruin

To a Friend bound to sea

Ocean's Treasures

Better Hours

The Seaman's Grave

The Slanderer

Smiles

Dreams

Melancholy

The Ruined Mind

Lines on hearing a Parent reprove the Vivacity of Childhood

The Beggar Girl

The Bridal

Departed Infants

Lines to a Young Lady on her birthday

Lines addressed to a Young Lady, on her First Entrance into Society

Lines in answer to "Forget Me Not"-To Mary

Death's Victim

Lines on the Death of Miss Annis Shirley, of Marblehead

Autumn

First and Last Hours

Departed Time

To an accomplished Youth, on the borders of dissipation

Reply to "Stanzas by M. A. Browne"

Angel Eternal

The Suicide

Lines for the Album of my friend Miss H.

Lines composed while viewing the Remains of R. F. West

Religion

The Rainbow

On seeing a beautiful and interesting Child

Lines written on the first of May

Lines addressed to M. A. T. of Charlestown

To S. S. of Salem

On some beautiful Rose-Plants injured by frost

Lines addressed to Miss J. R. G. of Charlestown

Eliza, take this beauteous Rose

To my friend, Miss Mary Lambert

In Memory of a Beloved Brother

To Sarah Ann

Acrostic

To a Friend

The Wandering Boy

The Memory of Friendship

Forget Me Not

The Gipsey's Prediction

The Echo of Memory

The Solace in Distress

Summer's Last Sunset

To

- Farewell

The last time we met

Fashionable Proceedings

Because I'm Twenty-Five

I'd wish to die

To H. D.

Home Recollections

To L. A. H. of C.

Lamenting for the Dead

On the Death of an Infant

The Invalid's Reply

Thoughts on Dying, occasioned by a death knell.

Notes:

"Many of the pieces now collected here have been before published at different times in the Marblehead and Salem Registers, with the signature of M. L. H., or occasionally of M. Louisa ..."--Advertisement.

"This little volume is intended as a small momento of a departed friend; to collect and treasure up her poems, which are the faithful record of her thoughts and her affections; and to preserve the whole as a monument sacred to her memory."--Preface.

Marbled paper covered boards with leatherette spine and corners.

Local Notes:

Libra copy has signature of "Georgie La De Blois?, Arlington".

Libra copy has comments "Pretty" and "Beautiful" written in ms. on first page of Contents.

Libra copy has marginal marks and ms. annotations.

Other Format:

Online version: Horton, Mary Lambert. Poetical and prose compositions.

OCLC:

20515545