Small brown notebook (5½” x 4″) containing draft and completed poems and a few rough…

Description: Small brown notebook (5½" x 4") containing draft and completed poems and a few rough sketches; MS; 80pp. Includes Pp.1-5 Poem: "Thou to whom heaven its noblest gifts assigned". Pp.6-9 Poem: "Oh! were I rich in nature's lore". Pp.10-12 Poem: "Rude Winter! iron sceptred power". Pp.12-13 Poem: "How oft the little sportive child". Pp.13-15 Poem: "Lost scenes by thee so sweetly traced". P.15 Poem: "With thee for ever could I stay". P.16 Poem: "Whene'er you speak, heav'n how the listening throng". P.17 Poem: "Lo! once again the jocund sway". Pp.18-19 Poem: "Thou that dost this scroll survey". Pp.20-26, 28-9, 32, 36-7, 39-41, 48-51, 54-5, 58-64, 67-80 draft poems Pp.22, 26-7, 42-3, 45-7, 53-4, 57 sketches P.33 note about the tails of comets, 20 March 1819. P.44 note about peas. P.57 Poem: Mont Blanc, 5th Jan. 1814, 40'clock "in the carriage".

Date: 01/01/1814 - 31/12/1819

Last import: September 11, 2017