Annotated Chronology: Anne Finch

Title Index

- A -

• Untitled. A brief song [For the soft Joys of Love … ]
• Untitled: These verses were inserted… [Absence in love… ]
• A Act of Contrition
• Adam Pos'd
• Advertisement for the Gazetter, Flying post, Weekly journal… [Whereas 'tis… ]
• An Advertisement [I having seen… ]
• After drawing a twelf cake
• The Agreeable [She is not fair… ]
• The agreeable [Tho Sir I do much… ]
• Alcidor
• All is Vanity
• [Aminta:] Amintor being ask'd by Thirsis…
• [Aminta:] From the French translation… the Golden Age
• [Aminta:] From the French Translation… Though wee of Small…
• [Aminta:] Some Peices out of the First Act… Dafne's answer
• [Aminta:] Thirsis persuades Amintor…
• An Answer to Mirtilla [Ripped out]
• [Untitled] Apollo. [An Invocation… I grant thee… ]
• An Apology for my fearfull temper
• The Appology
• Ardelia's answer to Ephelia
• Areta [Folger: Ardelia] to Melancholy
• Aristomenes, or The Royal Shepherd
• [Aristomenes] EPILOGUE
• [Aristomenes:] Prologue, To my Lord Winchilsea
• An Aspiration
• At first Waking
• [Athalia] Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act
• The ATHEIST and the ACORN

- B -

• A Ballad [The South Sea affair… ]
• A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming in London from Malshanger farm…
• The Bargain. a Song between Bachus & Cupid
• The Battle between the Rats and the Weazles
• Being an Excellent Ballad… an Accident that happen'd at Ld Weymouth at Long-Leat…
• The Bird
• The Brass-Pot, and Stone- Jugg
• Untitled. A brief song [For the soft Joys of Love … ]

- C -

• Caesar and Brutus
• Untitled [Call Delia Whore… ]
• The cautious Lovers
• The Change
• The Circuit of Appollo
• Clarinda's Indifference at Parting with Her Beauty
• The Consolation [See! Phoebus… ]
• A Contemplation
• Untitled [Cosmelia's charmes… ]
• The Critick and the Writer of FABLES.
• Cupid and Folly

- D -

• The Decision of Fortune. A FABLE
• Democritus and his Neighbours
• A Description of One of the Pieces of Tapistry at Long-Leat
• A Dialogue [When my Aminta weeps… ]
• The DOG and his MASTER
• [Don Carlos:] A Prologue

- E -

• The Eagle, the Sow, and the Cat
• On Easter Day
• An Elegy. From the Muses at Parnassus
• an enquiry after peace [Verses, incerted in a letter to my Lady Thanet]
• The Enquiry
• EPILOGUE [to Aristomenes]
• An Epilogue to… Jane Shore
• An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to Madam Deshouliers
• An Epistle from Alexander to Ephestion
• An Epistle, From Ardelia to Mrs. Randolph
• An Epistle to Mr Prior on the New Edition of His Work's.
• An Epistle to Mrs Catherine Fleming at Coleshill
• An Epistle to the honourable Mrs. THYNNE, persuading her to have a Statue made
• The Equipage
• The EXECUTOR

- F -

• A Fable [A MAN whose house … ]
• The Fall of Caesar
• Fanscomb Barn
• The First Edilium of Bion English'd
• The first twelve Verses…
• The following Lines… the Marriage of Edward… Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert
• The following poem is taken from the Epistle for the monday before Easter [Who is this from Edom… ]
• For Mrs Catherine Flemming at ye Lord Digby's at Coleshill at Warwickshire
• For the better [1713: imitated from Sir Roger L'Estrange]
• Untitled. A brief song [For the soft Joys of Love … ]
• The Forty-Fifth Ode of Anacreon
• Fragment at Tunbridge- Wells
• A Fragment of a dessign'd Poem upon Pitty
• Fragment [So here confin'd, and but to female Clay]
• Freindship Between Ephelia and Ardelia
• The Free-Thinkers
• From St Austin's manual… The desire of that Soul which hath a feeling…
• From the French translation of… Aminta… the Golden Age
• From the French Translation of … Aminta… [Though wee of Small… ]
• From the French Translation of Petrarqu'188th Sonnett [When Phoebus, at declining… ]

- G -

• unknown [Give me, Oh!--2nd petition poem… .]
• The Goute and Spider
• The Grove

- H -

• The happynesse of a departed Soul
• Hallelujah
• Herbert [The following Lines… the Marriage of Edward… Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert]
• The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat carrying to a FAIR
• Honour. A Song
• Hope
• The House of Socrates
• an Hymne Compos'd of the 148th Psalm Paraphras'd
• An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a dangerous fit of sickness
• A Hymn to Venus
• The Hyp In a Letter to W: C-- Esq

- I -

• In a Pindarick Poem upon the late Hurrycane… [You have obey'd…]
• [To a Freind [Flavio.] In Praise of the Invention of writing Letters
• The Introduction
• An Invitation to Dafnis. To leave his Study…
• [Untitled] An Invocation to Apollo [ I grant thee… ]
• An Invocation to Sleep
• An Invocation to the southern Winds

- J -

• [Jane Shore:] An Epilogue to… Jane Shore
• Jealousy: A Song [Vain Love, why dos't thou boast…]
• Jealousie is the Rage of a Man
• The Jester and the little Fishes
• Jupiter and the Farmer.

- K -

• The King and the Shepheard

- L -

• La Passion Vaincue
• The last chapter of Eclesiastes Paraphras'd
• The Lawrell [You who remote… ]
• A Letter to Daphnis at London
• A Letter to [Dafnis] Daphnis from Westminster Ap: the 2d: 1685
• A Letter to Flavio
• A Letter to Mr. Finch, Aprill the 2d 85
• A Letter to Mr. Finch from Tunbridge wells, August 17th, 1685.
• A Letter to Mr. Finch Oct. 21st 1690
• A Letter to Mrs Arrabella Marow
• A Letter to My Sister Ogle From Kyrby
• A Letter to the Hon: ble Lady Worseley at Long-Leat
• A Letter to the same person
• Life's Progress
• Untitled. Lines upon Eastwell Park
• [Longleat ballad:] Being an Excellent Ballad… an Accident that happen'd at Ld Weymouth at Long-Leat…
• The LORD and the BRAMBLE
• The Losse
• Love Death and Reputation
• LOVE'S RELIEF
• The LYON and the GNAT

- M -

• The MAN and his HORSE.
• The Man bitten by Fleas
• Man's Injustice towards Providence
• Mary Magdalen at our Saviour's Tomb
• The MASTIFF and CURS
• A Maxim for the Ladys
• Melinda on an insipped Beauty [You, when your body… Sapho's]
• MERCURY and the ELEPHANT
• The Miller, his Son and the Asse
• The misanthrope
• Moderation or The Wolves and the Sheep
• A Moral Song [Wou'd we attain…]
• THE Mussulman's Dream OF THE VIZIER and DERVIS
• My Sister Ogle From Kyrby

- N -

• A New Ballad [To all you sparkling … ]
• A Nocturnal Reverie
• No Grace

- O -

• Occasion'd By the Death of Collonel Baggot
• An Ode Written upon Christmas Eve… 1714
• Untitled [Ombre and Basset… ]
• On Absence. From the Maxims of Bussy Rabutin
• On a double Stock July- flower
• On Affliction
• On a Short Visit
• On Grief
• On Lady Cartret drest like a shepherdess at Count Volira's ball
• On my being charged with writing a lampoon at Tunbridge
• On my Selfe
• On the Death of the Honourable Mr. James Thynne
• On the Death of the Queen
• On the Lord Dundee
• On these Words--for as much as ye did it unto the last of these my Brethren [Why are my steps with held… ]
• On these Words--thou has hedg'd my way with thorns.
• On Nicolini's leaving the stage
• The 146th Psalm Paraphras'd
• Over the Picture of Major Pownoll
• The Owl Describing Her Young Ones

- P -

• Parting with Beauty
• Part of the Fifth Scene in the Second Act of Athalia
• A Pastoral. Between Menalcus and Damon
• A Pastoral Dialogue Between two Shepheardesses
• The Petition for an Absolute Retreat
• [Petrarch:] From the French Translation of Petrarqu'188th Sonnett [When Phoebus, at declining… ]
• The Philosopher, the Young Man, and his Statue
• The PHOENIX. A SONG
• In a Pindarick Poem upon the late Hurrycane… [You have obey'd…]
• A Poem For the Birth Day of the Right Honorable the Lady Catherine Tufton
• A Poem Occasion'd by the sight of the 4th Epistle Lib. Epist. 1 of Horace
• The Poor man's Lamb or Nathan's Parable to David
• A Prayer for Salvation
• The Preface
• A Preparation to Prayer
• The Prevalence of Custom
• The prodigy
• Prologue, To my Lord Winchilsea [Aristomenes]
• A Prologue, To Don Carlos
• Psalm the 137th Paraphras'd to the 7th Verse
• the puggs

- Q -

• TheQueen Cypress, or Love Above Ambition [The Triumphs of Love and Innocence]

- R -

• Ralpho's Reflections Upon the Anniversary of His Wedding.
• Reflections upon part of the 8th verse of the 148 Psalm [You have obey'd…]
• REFORMATION
• The Retirement
• Right Zeal

- S -

• The Safety of a low State
• [Sapho, from the Greek of:] A Hymn to Venus
• [Sapho's] Melinda on an insipped Beauty [You, when your body… Sapho's]
• The Second Chapter of the Wisdom of Solomon
• The Shepherd and the Calm
• The Shepherd Piping to the Fishes
• A Sigh
• Untitled [Sir plausible as 'tis well known]
• To Sleep
• Soliloquy
• Solitude
• Some occasional Reflections Digested (Tho not with great regularity) into a Poeme.
• [Aminta:] Some Peices out of the First Act… Aminta… Dafne's answer to Silvia
• Some Reflections in a Dialogue between Teresa and Ardelia
• The Song, by a female musician, Phelinda [Song from Triumphs/Queen Cypress]
• A Song [By love pursu'd… ]
• A Song, by Marina [from Triumphs/Queen Cypress]
• A Song [Cease Mirtilla & c]
• A Song design'd to have been brought into the part between Climander and Herminia [Wretched Amintor, Aristomenes]
• A Song for a Play. Alcander to Melinda.
• A Song [for my Br. Les Finch]. Upon a Punch Bowl.
• A Song [If for a Woman… ]
• A Song [Lett the Fool… ]
• A Song [Love, thou art best… ]
• A Song made to be sung in a play by a woman [Witt as free… ]
• A Song: Melinda to Alcander [Witt as free… ]
• A Song [Miranda hides her… . ]
• A Song of the Canibals
• A Song [Perswade me not, there is a grace]
• A Song [Quickly Delia learn my passion]
• A Song [Strephon whose person… ]
• The Song, sung by shepherdesses [A yong shepheard… Aristomenes]
• A Song [The Nymph in vain. . . ]
• A song [The Pretious hours of flying Youth]
• A Song ['Tis strange, this heart…]
• A Song [Vain Love, why dos't thou boast…]
• A Song [Whilst Thirsis, in his Pride…]
• The Spleen
• Sullen Green or Wully's farewell
• A Suplication for the joys of Heaven

- T -

• A Tale of the Miser, and the Poet.
• A Tale [Over a cheerful cup. . . ]
• Temptations
• The 10th part of the 119th Psalm Paraphras'd
• Untitled: These verses were inserted… [Absence in love… ]
• Thirsis persuades Amintor not to dispair [Aminta]
• There's no To-morrow
• The 30th Ode of Anacreon
• Timely Advice to Dorinda
• The TOAD undrest.
• To a fellow Scribbler
• To a Freind [Flavio] in Praise of the Invention of writing Letters
• To a Lady who having desired me to compose somthing…
• To Belinda
• To Death
• To Dr. Waldron
• To Edward Jenkinson
• To Daphnis Who going abroad had disired Ardelia to write…
• To Flavia
• To Flavia. By whose perswasion… ]
• To… Frances Countess of Hartford who engaged Mr Eusden to write upon a wood…
• To his Excellency the Lord Cartret at Stockholm
• To Mr. F. now Earl of W. Who going abroad…
• To Mr. Granville, on his Comedy
• TO MR. JERVAS
• To Mr. POPE
• To Mr Pope In Answer to a coppy of verses
• To Mr. Prior, from a LADY Unknown
• To Mrs Arabella Marrow upon the Death of Lady Marrow
• To Sleep [An Invocation]
• To the Countess of Hartford on her Lord's Birthday
• To the Echo in a clear night upon Astrop Walks
• To the Hon ble Mrs H---n [Where is the trust… ]
• To the Honourable The Lady Worsley at Long-leate
• "To the Hon ble Mrs Thynne after twelfth Day
• To the Lord March upon the death of his sparrow
• To the Rev Mr. Bedford
• To the Right honourable the Countess of Hartford with her volume of Poems
• To the Rt. Honble the Lady Tufton Upon Adressing to me the first Lette
• To the Rt Hon ble ye Ld Viscount Hatton… an imitation of… Deshouliers]
• To the Nightingale
• To the Painter of an ill-drawn Picture of CLEONE,
• The Tradesman and the Scholar
• The Tree
• The Triumphs of Love and Innocence [Queen of Cypress]

- U -

• Under the picture of Mr John Dryden
• Under the picture of Marshall Turenne
• Under the picture of Sr George Rooke
• The unequal Fetters
• Upon a Company of bad Dancers to good Musick
• Upon an impropable undertaking [sic]
• Upon Ardelia's return home
• Upon Lady Selena Shirly's picture drawn by Mr Dagar
• Upon my Lord WINCHILSEA's converting the Mount in his Garden…
• Upon the Death of King James the Second
• Upon the Death of… Lord Maidston
• Upon the Death of Sir William Twisden
• [upon the late Hurrycane:] In a Pindarick Poem… [You have obey'd…]
• [Upon these words… ] Gold is try'd in the fire…

- V -

• Verses, incerted in a letter to my Lady Thanet; being an enquiry after peace
• Verses written under the King of Sweden's Picture

- W -

• Untitled [We did attempt to travell…]
• The white mouses petition
• The Wit and the Beau [Strephon whose person… ]
• Written after a violent and dagerous fit of Sicknesse
• Written before a French Book

- Y -

• The Young RAT and his DAM, the COCK and the CAT

Detail from a painting of the Rotunda at Beachborough House, Kent, attributed to Edward Haley, mid-18th century

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