Statement of responsibility from dedicatory leaf : "To the Right Honourable Lady Mary West, these poems are respectfully inscribed by Her Ladyship's most obedient servant, Anna Laetitia Aikin. Warrington, Dec. 1st. 1772"--p. [iii] (verso p. [iv] blank)

Signatures : A-I⁸ ; vertical chain lines.

Includes index : Contents [also in running header] : 23 listed items, "Songs" comprising 6, "Hymns" 5, for 32 total.--p. [v]-vi.

Text and running headers for separate works.

Contents : Corsica (Note: Written in ... 1769) [Thomson (for introductory quotation, as in following)]--p. [1]-12 ; The Invitation : to Miss Bxxxx [Virgil]--p. 13-24 ; The Groans of the Tankard [Horace]--p. 25-30 ; On the Backwardness of the Spring 1771 [Virgil]--p. 31-32 ; Verses Written in an Alcove [Horace]--p. 33-36 ; The Mouse's Petition ... (Note: To Dr. Priestly) [Virgil]--p. 37-40 ; To Mrs. P--------, With Some Drawings of Birds and Insects [Pope]--p. 41-48 (no illustrations) ; Characters [2 poems] [Horace and Tibullus]--p. 49-51 ; On a Lady's Writing--p. 51 ; Hymn to Content [Claudian.]--p. 53-56 ; To Wisdom [Horace]--p. 57-58 ...

Contents [continued] : The Origin of Song-Writing (Note: Addressed to the author of Essays on Song Writing) [Tibullus (quotation, as for following)]--p. 59-65 ; Songs [numbered I-VI]--p. 66-81 (no. III a dialogue between Sylvia and Corin., no. IV on Celia and Chloris, no. V on Araminta) ; Delia, an Elegy [Tibullus] ; Ovid to his Wife --p. 88-94 (Trist. Lib. iv. Eleg. 8) ; To a Lady with some painted Flowers [Virgil]--p. 95-96 ; Ode to Spring [Waller]--p. 97-100 ; Verses on Mrs. Rowe [Young]--p. 101-103 ; To Miss R----, On her Attendance upon her Mother at Buxton [Pope]--p. 104-106 ; On the Death of Mrs. Jennings (Note: The Author's Grandmother) [Cicero]--p. 107-109 ; Hymns [Horace (I) ; Hab. iii, 17, 18 (II)] [numbered I-V]--p. 110-124 ; Address to the Deity [Lucan]--p. 125-130 ; A Summer Evening's Meditation [Young]--p. 131-138.

Brown leather binding. Spine with red morocco inset, bearing short title : Aikin's Poems.

English poetry > 18th century.

Religious poetry, English > 18th century.

Hymns, English > 18th century.

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