Anna Seward
Who is Anna Seward
Anna Seward (12 December 1742 – 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education.LifeFamily lifeSeward was the elder of two surviving daughters of Thomas Seward (1708–1790), a prebendary of Lichfield and Salisbury and an author, and his wife Elizabeth. Elizabeth later had three further children (John, Jane and Elizabeth), who all died in infancy, and two stillbirths. Anna Seward mourned their loss in her poem Eyam (1788). Born in 1742 at Eyam, a mining village in the Peak District of Derbyshire, where her father was Rector, she and her sister Sarah, some 16 months younger, passed nearly all their life in that small area of the Peak District of Derbyshire, and at Lichfield, a cathedral ...
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Anna Seward Poems
- Sonnet Lxxviii
Sophia tempts me to her social walls,
That 'mid the vast Metropolis arise,
Where Splendor dazzles, and each Pleasure vies
In soft allurement; and each Science calls
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- Sonnet Xliii. To May, In The Year 1783
My memory, long accustom'd to receive
In deep-engraven lines, each varying trait
Past Times and Seasons wore, can find no date
Thro' many years, O! MAY, when thou hadst leave,
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- Odes From Horace. - To Mëcenas. Book The First, Ode The First
I.
Mëcenas, from Etrurian Princes sprung,
For whom my golden lyre I strung,
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- Sonnet Xc. Subject Continued
My hour is not yet come! - these burning eyes
Have not yet look'd their last! - else, 'mid the roar
Of this wild STORM, what gloomy joy to pour
My freed, exhaling Soul! - sublime to rise,
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- Sonnet Liv. A Persian King To His Son
FROM A PROSE TRANSLATION IN SIR WILLIAM JONES' ESSAY ON THE POETRY OF THE EASTERN NATIONS.
Guard thou, my Son, the Helpless and the Poor,
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