POEMS

BY MATILDA BETHAM.

London:

PRINTED FOR J. HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO HER MAJESTY, OPPOSITE ALBANY, PICCADILLY.

1808.

TO LADY ROUSE BOUGHTON, AS A TESTIMONY OF RESPECT AND GRATITUDE FOR LONG CONTINUED FRIENDSHIP, THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS INSCRIBED BY HER OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT, MATILDA BETHAM.

New Cavendish-street,

Feb. 3, 1809.

ADVERTISEMENT.

Before this book was printed, I thoughtlessly concluded there must be a preface; but, on consideration, see no particular purpose it would answer, and gladly decline a task I should have undertaken with much timidity and reluctance. All I feel necessary to premise, is, that the tale in the Old Shepherd's Recollections is founded on an event which happened in Ireland; and that last spring I suppressed the song ending in page 65 [The Old Man's Farewell], some time after it had been in the hands of the composer, from meeting accidentally with a quotation in a magazine that resembled it.

CONTENTS.

• POEMS.—
  • The Old Fisherman
  • Lines to Mrs. Radcliffe, on first reading The Mysteries of Udolpho
  • The Heir
  • To a Llangollen Rose, the day after it had been given me by Miss Ponsonby
  • L'Homme de l'Ennui
  • The Grandfather's Departure
  • Reflections occasioned by the Death of Friends
  • To Mrs. T. Fancourt
  • To a Young Gentleman
  • Fragment
• SONGS.—
  • "Thrice lovely Babe"
  • "What do I love?"
  • A Sailor's Song
  • Another
  • Once more, then farewell!
  • Henry, on the Departure of his Wife from Calcutta
  • Sonnet
  • On the Regret of Youth
  • Elegy on Sophia Graham
  • To Miss Rouse Boughton
  • To the Same
  • To the River which separates itself from the Dee at Bedkellert
  • The Old Man's Farewell
  • Song—Distance from the Place of our Nativity.
  • The Old Shepherd's Recollections
  • Reflection
  • Retrospect of Youth
  • The Daughter
  • Youth unsuspicious of evil
  • The Mother
  • Edgar and Ellen

POEMS.

THE OLD FISHERMAN.