Poems

Occasional (on writing verses) [Literature; Family]. 

Transcribed from "A young Lady of 12 Years of age, having promised her Brother, who was making his Exercise to write him some Verses, if he would tell her what to write upon. What, replied he smartly, but upon Paper? Her Answer and Performance were in the following Lines." The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle, vol. 2, Nov. 1732, p. 1077. ProQuest, [ProQuest document ID:] 8306368.

Epistle [Satire - Social; Women; Family; Education].

Transcribed from Folger M.a. 180, pp. 31–32.

Ode [Death, afterlife]. 

Transcribed from Williams, H.M. "On the Word Last." The western country magazine, for the year... By a society of gentlement... vol. 5, 1789–1792, p. 27. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0124929652.

Lyric [Passions, Sentiments].

Transcribed from Langhorne, John, "Hymn to Humanity." The Effusions of Friendship and Fancy. In Several Letters to and from Select Friends. ..., 1763, pp. 123–128. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0110645195.

Sonnet [Animals, pets].

Transcribed from Smith, Charlotte Turner. "Sonnet III. To a Nightingale." Elegiac sonnets, 3rd. ed., 1786, p. 4. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0114875362.

Ode [Celebrities; Historical subjects; Classical themes]. 

Transcribed from Nugent, Robert. An Ode on Mr. Pulteney, 1739. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0112317052. 

Lyric [Shakespeare; Visual arts].

Transcribed from Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. "The Shakespeare Gallery." Tributes of affection: with The slave; and other poems. By a lady; and her brother, 1797, pp. 112–118. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111246336.

Lyric [Conduct, morality; Friendship]. 

Transcribed from Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia. "To J.S. at St. Albans." Tributes of affection: with The slave; and other poems. By a lady; and her brother, 1797, pp. 82–84. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111246336.

Ode [Marriage, courtship; Satire - social].

Transcribed from Watts, Isaac. "A Word of Warning, or Few Happy Marriages." Horæ lyricæ. Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books... Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence, 1706, pp. 171–174. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0112026958.

Ode [Classical themes; Love; Historical subjects; Literature].

Transcribed from Davies, Sneyd. "Vacuna." A collection of poems in six volumes. By several hands, vol. 5, 1765, pp. 121–124. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0114907817.

Epistle [Love; Passions, sentiments]. 

Transcribed from Hervey, John. Monimia to Philocles: being a letter from an unfortunate lady, after her retirement from court to one of the most remote and solitary parts of England, to a young nobleman... Printed by S. Powell, for J. Thompson, 1728, pp. 3–8. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CB0132874156.

Lyric [Devotional writing, religious belief].

Transcribed from Pierrepont, Elizabeth. "When the Late Duchess of Kingston was at Rome, she being much Distressed in her Mind, is said to have Addressed herself to the then Pope, in the following lines."  An asylum for fugitive pieces, in prose and verse... vol. 2, 1786, p. 96. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111828851.

Epistle [Humour]. 

Transcribed from "To Henry Stonecastle Esq." The Universal spectator and weekly journal, December 1728, no. 10, p. 498. British Periodicals, [ProQuest document ID:] 6391511. 

Educational material [Devotional writing, religious belief; Conduct, morality].

Transcribed from "Pious Rules for Daily Practice." London magazine and monthly chronologer, vol. 12, January 1743, p. 43. British Periodicals, [ProQuest document ID:] 5328366.

Epitaph [Historical subjects; Public affairs; Death, afterlife]. 

Transcribed from An Epitaph on the tomb-stone of Marion Scott, who died at Dunkeld, Nov. 28, 1727, [1728?], Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CB0130102863.

Discussed in MacInnis, Kaitlyn. "Monuments and the Margins: Old Age and Memories of Scottish Jacobitism in the Epitaph of Marjory Scott, 1700-1900." Unpublished MA thesis, Simon Fraser University, 2016.  http://summit.sfu.ca/item/19739.

Elegy [Death, afterlife].

Transcribed from Moore, Rev. Mr. "A Soliloquy written in a Country-Church-Yard." The Gentleman's Magazine: and historical chronicle, vol. 28, March 1758, p. 127. British Periodicals, [ProQuest document ID:] 8532654.

Series; Epistle [Classical themes; Historical subjects; Love].

Transcribed from Finch, Anne Kingsmill. Miscellany poems, on several occasions. Written by a lady, 1713, p. 278. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0112057656. 

Song; Ode [Death, afterlife; Love; Devotional writing, religious belief].

Transcribed from The hive. A collection of the most celebrated songs. In four volumes, 1726, pp. 111–112. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0116306845. 

Lyric [Death, afterlife; Passions, sentiments; Love; Animals, pets].

Transcribed from Shaw, Cuthbert. "An Evening Address to the Nightingale." The beauties of English poetry, or a collection of poems extracted from the best authors, 1800, pp. 79–82. Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0117170745.

Elegy [Music; Family].

Transcribed from Sheridan, Elizabeth Ann. "Mrs. Sheridan on her Brother's Violin." An asylum for fugitive pieces, in prose and verse, not in any other collection: with several pieces never before published, vol. 1, 1785, pp. 30–31. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0111828442.

Lyric [Devotional writing, religious belief; Passions, sentiments].

Transcribed from Divine hymns and poems on several occasions. Viz. A Pastoral on our Saviour's Nativity. The Wish. The Description of Heaven, in Imitation of Mr. Milton, &c. By Philomela, and several other ingenious persons, 1704, pp. 143–146. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0110717926. 

Epitaph [Death, afterlife; Courtship, marriage].

Transcribed from Mason, William. "On the Death of his Wife." Elegies. By C. Shaw, -. Pratt, R. Jago, Dr. Wolcot, A. L. Barbauld, G. Dyer, &c, 1798, p. 36. Eighteenth Century Collections Online, GALE|CW0118417106.

Ode [Celebrities; Women; Conduct, morality].

Transcribed from Sheridan, R.B. "A Portrait; Addressed to Mrs. Crewe, with the Comedy of the School for Scandal." The Works of the late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In Two Volumes, vol. 2, 1821, pp. 3–7. Google books, https://www.google.ca/books/edition/The_Works_of_the_Late_Right_Honourable_R/ofckAAAAMAAJ.