Gertrude Thimelby

Verse

Contented Poverty
('You that are worldly wise, and vanely boast')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 88-9.

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Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

An Epitaph on a Sweet Little Boy of Sir William Persall
('Stay, courteous passenger, this stone')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 105-6.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

From a Sick Poetesse to Mrs St George, on her Feeding the Swans
('Two freezing winters, and one summer's heat')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 287-8.

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Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

Edited from this MS in Tixall Poetry.

Mrs Thimelby, on the Death of Her Only Child
('Dear infant, 'twas thy mother's fault')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 85-6.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

No Love like that of the Soule
('Some froward heretickes in love ther bee')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 95-6.

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On Faire Mrs Hall Dying in her Prime
('How soone these faire and forward springs')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 98.

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On Saint Catherines Day
('You glorious saint, tho borne of royall blood')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 226.

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Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.

To Cannall, in Mourning
('What all in black! all mourning! O that wee')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 100-1.

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To her Husband, on New-Years-Day, 1651
('How swiftly time doth passe away')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 86.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

To H--- T---
('Nature, nor art, (should both contest)')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 89-90.

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To Mr E--- T---, who holds Selfe-Love in all our Actions
('Selfe-love in all? sure I am not awake!')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 90-2.

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To my Brother and Sister Aston, on their Wedding-Day, being absent
('They whom unlucky accidents remove')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 94.

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To Sir William and My Lady Persall, upon the Death of theire and our Deare Mall
('We are too much concern'd to dry your teares')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 103-4.

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To Sir William and My Lady Persall, uppon the Death of their Little Franke
('Happy parents, mourne no more')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 99-100.

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To the Lady Elizabeth Thimelby, on New-Yeares-Day, 1655, Looking dayly for here Sonne from Travaile
('Past is the winter absence of the sunne')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 104-5.

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To the Lady Southcot, on her Wedding-Day
('If mongst the happy number this day crowd')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 101-2.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

Upon a Command to Write on my Father
('Teares I could soone have brought unto this hearse')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), pp. 92-3.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

Upon the Lady Persalls Parting with her Daughter without Teares
('You who a mistick patche's losse can mourne')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 97.

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Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.

Uppon the Returne from our Friends in Staffordshire
('What? has our progresse from kind friend to friend')

First published in Tixall Poetry (1813), p. 87.

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In: A small quarto volume of verse, lacking a cover. 17th century.

Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.

Selectively edited (as his Second Division: Poems by the Honourable Mrs Henry Thimelby), in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 83-106.