Poems not in Collected Edition

Listed here is a set of poems in manuscript discovered after the publication of The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, in 2009. As more poems are discovered, this list will be updated accordingly. In the case of some of the poems, finished versions of the manuscripts can be found within the edition, and those are indicated with an asterix. We welcome suggestions for additions to this list.

 

Opie, Amelia Alderson. Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Ah! Stay Ye Tender Hours of Young Delight.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “The Ballroom Now Demands.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “The Bard Now Wanders to the County Ball.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “But Who Come Here to Set the World a Stare.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “By the Right Hon John Philpot Curran.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Dirge by Mrs Opie.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.*

—.”Epigram on Flying Machines.” King-Pierce Collection. 

—. “Fate Now Forbids My Longer Stay.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “The Flattery of Men Is I Now and Declare.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “He Said and Hermes Will Not Disobey. ” Berg Collection,  New York Public Library.

—. “How Can Two Persons Who Have Lived The.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Hymn, Occasioned by Sarah Bowley’s Allusion.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “I Hoped, Dear Girls, to Send a Store.”1816. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, October 3, 1816

—. “If It Be True.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “If My First You Think Handsome.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “In a Fair City, Far Distant in the North.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “In Sylvan Road a Man There Lived.”1726? Berg Collection, New York Public Library, May 9, 1726.

—. “A Lament.” 1825. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, November, 1825.*

—. “Lines, to the Memory of My Beloved Cousin.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.*

—. “The Morning Sun-Beam Ope’ My Eyes.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “A Mother’s Lament over Her Dying Infant.” Berg Collection,  New York Public Library.

—. “Mrs Skeene.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “My Mother Sigh’d! The Stream of Pain.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “The Nun.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.*

—. “On a Sweet Blushing Morning in the Sweet Month of May.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “On the Gum Cistus.” Berg Collection, Poem, New York Public Library.

—. “On the Lily of the Valley.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “On the Snow Drop.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Suppose Then Adam and Eve Talking.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Sweet, Serious,T Ender, Those Blue Eyes Impart.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Though Thy Dark Eyes Has in Ease Not Y View.” Berg Collection, Poem, New York Public Library.*

—. “Thus, in Y World Its Pleasures.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “To Mrs. A Sent with a Screen.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. ““To Richenda Cunningham”.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “To the Viscountess Anson.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “To Thomas Richardson, Jun[io]r.” Richardson/Beresford archive, Private Collection.

—. “When Tyrant Time.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Why Sway Feet He Correctly Styled Ancient.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.

—. “Written in a Young Ladies Album of Different Coloured Paper.”1825. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, March 1825.