Poetry in Manuscript
(Organized Alphabetically)
“Address to a Dying Friend.” 1828. Letter to Henrietta Erskine 25 January 1828, Pforzheimer Collection. New York Public Library, New York.
“Again, Eliza, Let Me Hail That Day.” 1833. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19M. New York
Public Library, New York.
“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.
“Could This Be Dying? Where the Struggling Breath.” 1826. Port. 20.149. Society of Friends Library, London.
“A David, Apres Avoir Entendu Prononcer À L’institut L’éloge De Houdon–.” 1824.
Huntington Collection. AO. Huntington Library.
“Dear Cousins, I am full of flusters.” Letter to Eliza Alderson n.d., Huntington Library.
“The Death of Abijah.” 1843. 115 Charles Roberts Autograph Collection. Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“Dirge by Mrs Opie.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“An Enigma.” 1823. Swarthmore College Library, Philadelphia.
“Epigram / “The Lame Poets.” Huntington Library.
“Epigram on Flying Machines.” King-Pierce Collection.
“Epitaph on Joseph Blyth.” 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.
“Go Youth Belov’d! In Distant Glades.” 1802. 4429, p. 13. New College Library, Oxford.
“Go Youth Beloved in Distant Glade.” Augusta Leigh Byron’s Commonplace Book. Add. Ms.
58802, f. 37. British Library, London.
“He Bade Me Remember Him.” 1829. OP. Huntington Library.
“He Said and Hermes Will Not Disobey.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“How Can Two Persons Who Have Lived.” Berg Collection, riddles, New York Public Library.
“How Darkly Life.” 1827. Quaker Collection. Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“How Dear to Me the Twilight Hour.” Augusta Leigh Byron’s Commonplace Book. Add. Ms. 58802, ff. 38-9. British Library, London.
“Hymn.” [I might have followed thee, dear Lord]. Temp. Mss. 434.4/42. Society of Friends
Library, London.
“Hymn.” [There’s not a leaf within the bower]. 1828. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19. New York Public Library, New York.
“Hymn after a Walk in Spring.” [There seems a voice in every gale]. 1842. Quaker Collection.Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“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.
“I must confess my little loves.” 1821. Letter to Eliza Aderson, 11 May 1821. Huntington
Library.
“In a Fair City, Far Distant in the North.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“In Memory of Our Beloved Young Friend Thomas Sparshall.” 1825. MC 1389/1, 810X2
Norfolk Record Office.
“In Memory of Our Beloved Young Friend Thomas Sparshall.” 1825. MS 444 13/10. Society of
Antiquaries, London.
“In Memory of Thomas Sparshall.” 1825. Cely-Trevilian Bequest. (MS 444), 9-10. Society of
Antiquaries Library, London.
“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 Address’d to a Departed Friend.” [Friend, long belov’d! on thy untimely bier]. 18 .
Hayley XXVII, 8. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
“Lines Address’d to a Departed Friend.” [Friend, long belov’d! on thy untimely bier].
PP/HO/D/A2477.1-3 [Box 17, file 11]. Wellcome Library, London.
“Lines on the Death of Elizabeth Opie.” 1827. Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“Lines on Lady Harrt Gurney & her daughter Harriet– to DG” RQG 595/5, Norfolk Record
Office.
“Lines sent with some buds &c for the coffin of T.W. <Send> a sweet boy of 12 years old.”
Letter to Eliza Alderson n.d. , Huntington Library.
“Lines to the Memory of Albert De St. Firmin.” 1831. Ascombe Collection. 11.8 (Large).
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
“Lines, to the Memory of My Beloved Cousin.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“Lines to the Memory of Reginald Heber.” King and Pierce, Private Collection.
“Lines to the Memory of Sophia Bland Jun Who Was Interred in the Burying Ground in NorwichBelonging to Friends in the December of 1818.” 1818. Gurney Collection. Port. 31.125.Friends Library, London.
“Mad Song.” [Ha! What is this that on my brow]. 1843. Swarthmore College, Philadelphia.
“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.
“Oh Bright Was the Pageant When England’s King.” 1831. OP. Huntington Library.
“Oh ye! who come this show to view.” 1850. NRO 35. Norfolk Record Office.
“On a Late Affecting Event at Woodrising.” Swarthmore College Library, Philadelphia.
“On a Sweet Blushing Morning in the Sweet Month of May.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“On Hearing of the Death of Priscilla Sarah Gurney.” 1828. MS. Brit. Emp.s.444, volume 3, pp. 9-10. Rhodes House Library, Oxford.
“On the Gum Cistus.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“On the Death of Edmund Janson 9th Mo 1826.” 1826. Temp. MSS. 434.1/338b. Society of
Friends Library, London.
“On These Fearful Times.” 1831. Mss. Brit. Emp.s.333, vol. 1, pp. 7-8. Rhodes House Library,
Oxford.
“On These Fearful Times.” 1832. Temp. MSS. 434.4A/12. Society of Friends Library, London.
“On the Lily of the Valley.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“On the Snow Drop.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“Remembrance.” [How dear to me the twilight hour]. British Library, Augusta Byron
Commonplace Book.
“Song.” [I had a hope which now is o’er]. 1824. Charles Roberts Autograph Collection. 115.
Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“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, New York Public Library.
“Thus, in Y World Its Pleasures.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“To ____. With Cowper’s Poems.” 1822. OP. Huntington Library.
“To a Prism, Sent from London to My Friend David.” 1829. OP. Huntington Library.
“To America.” [Famed is the day when thy brave sons]. 1846. Charles Roberts Autograph
Collection. 115. Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“To America.” [Welcome beyond the utmost powers]. 1846. PP/HO/D/A2478 [Box 17, File 11].
Wellcome Library, London.
“To America.” [Fair is thy land America, & free!]. 1846. PP/HO/D/A2478 [Box 17, file 11].
Wellcome Library, London.
“To Anna Gurney. A Description of My Last Recent Visit to North Repps Cottage.” Temp.
MSS. 434.4/43. Society of Friends Library, London.
“To Elizabeth Lemaistre (Alas! Not Birthday Verses, as Usual but Heartfelt Apologies for Not
Having Written Any! The First Omission During 35 Years!).” 1844. Pforzheimer
Collection. AO 19N. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Elizabeth Lemaistre on Her Birthday 5th of June 1824.” 1824. Pforzheimer Collection. AO
19K. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Elizabeth Lemaistre on Her Birthday 6th Mo 5th 1825.” 1825. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19L. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Elizabeth Lemaistre on Her Birthday 5th June 1845.” 1845. MS. 966, f. 278-278v. National Library of Scotland.
“To J[oseph] J[ohn] Gurney ‘On his inviting me to see his spring flowers.'” n.d.
Wisbec and Fenland Museum Townshend Autographs collection III 56 & IV 41.
“To Mr.Curtis Aurist to the Regent.” 1820. Huntington Library.
“To Mr & Mrs Roberts, with Some Dried Apples.” 1809. Swarthmore College, Philadelphia.
“To Mrs. A Sent with a Screen.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre at Malvern, on Her Birthday 5th of June 1818.” 1818. Pforzheimer
Collection. AO 19E. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre at Paris on Her Birthday–5th of June 1816.” 1816. Pforzheimer Collection.
AO 19C. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday–5th of June 1813.” 1813. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19A.
New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday–5th of June 1815.” 1815. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19B.
New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday–5th of June 1822.” 1822. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19H.
New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday 5th of June 1813.” 1813. Add. Ms. 18203, f. 374. British
Library, London.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday 5th of June 1820.” 1820. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19G.
New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birth-Day 5th of June 1819 with an Ivory Box Containing a Remedy
for the Headach–.” 1819. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19F. New York Public Library,
New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre on Her Birthday–with a Three-Sided Seal on Which Is Engraved T’amo.”
1823. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19J. New York Public Library, New York.
“To Mrs. Lemaistre with an Almanack, on Her Birthday–5th of June 1817.” 1817. Pforzheimer Collection. AO 19D. New York Public Library, New York.
“To My Father, on the 7th of April 1823.” 1823. Swarthmore College, Philadelphia.
“To Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Bart. On His Birthday 1st April 1841.” 1841. Rhodes House
Library, Oxford.
“To the Memory of Jane Gurney of Earlham.” 1822. Temp. MSS. 434.1/334A. Society of
Friends Library, London.
“To Richenda Cunningham.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“To Thomas John Alderson on His Birthday.” 1823. Huntington Library.
“To the Viscountess Anson.” Berg Collection, New York Public Library.
“Tributary Lines.” [While gazing on the glowing West]. 1813. Haverford College, Philadelphia.
“When Ty Rant 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.
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