Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720–1840, Part II vol 5

PART II VOLUME 5 Poetry of Maria Grace Saffery Acknowledgements Note on the Texts Introduction Poetry of Maria Grace Saffery I. Poems, 1790–1833 1. Cheyt Sing (1790) 2. Reflections on the New-Year 3. The Complaint – Sabbath Day, December 13, 1795 4. Wednesday, December 16, 1795 5. Mourning an Absent God 6. Sabbath Evening, December 20, 1795 – Despondancy Reproved 7. On Hearing Bells at Midnight, for the Closing Year 8. Pensive Desire 9. January 6, 1797 10. On seeing the following Inscription on a Sun-dial: “Be gone about your business” 11. Sung at a Baptizing, August 3, 1800 12. Sung at a Baptizing, December 28, 1800 13. On the Death of Miss S—, at five years of age, who gave remarkable Evidences of a Divine Change 14. The Wish 15. Conflict 16. On Peace 17. An Elegy 18. New Year’s Gif 19. Evening 20. On Sin 21. Consolation in Christ 22. Sung af er a Sermon preached to the Sunday School Society in Brown Street and the Children whom they teach, on September 20, 1802 23. On Ezekiel XXXIV 24. On John 12.27 25. [Tired of the labours that employ] 26. For a Ladies Pocket Book 27. [Yes, I am sad, the starting tear] 28. Baptizing Hymn 29. [If ever sinner turned away] 30. On Parting from a dear Friend 31. On Psalm 94 and 19th Verse 32. On 2nd Epistle Thessalonians, 3rd Chapter and 1st Verse 33. Happiness of the Righteous after Death 34. True Liberty 35. Nearness to God 836. Perfect Love 37. A Mother’s Address to a Child 38. Sabbath Evening Reflexion 39. The Saviour’s Triumph over Death and Hell 40. To Jane on the f rst return of her Birthday 41. To a Friend with a Roasting Pig 42. To the Same Friend with a Turkey during the War with Turkey 43. Love to Christ 44. Sonnet 45. Christian Heroism 46. Hymn 47. Ordination Hymn 48. Sunday School Hymn 49. Association Hymn 50. Introductory Apostrophe, On the Commencement of the second Volume of the Baptist Magazine 51. Jubilee Hymn, Sung at several Baptist Meeting Houses 52. A Funeral Thought 53. Missionary Hymn 54. Hymn on Baptism 55. The Choice of Moses 56. To M. Saffery 57. To P. J. Saffery 58. From Jane to Philip, enclosed in a purse she had worked for him 59. Missionary Hymn, sung December 8th, 1813, at the Ordination of a Missionary going to Jamaica 60. Isaiah lx. 1 61. From Jane to Philip in answer to a letter congratulating her on her birthday, written just after the death of Edwin Saffery – composed by M. G. S. for Jane 62. To Jane Saffery in London, from her mother, June 1814 63. On the death of … 64. Complaint to Java on the Death of the Rev. T. Trowt 65. To Philip on sending him Eustace’s Classical Tour instead of a religious work for which he had written 66. To the same after he had asked her if she did not forget him 167. To Little Jane, without a garland, on her cold birthday, May 1st 1817 68. To some dear one with peaches 69. Lines written at the request of S. W., December 1822 70. Written in my Sister’s Album, March 1823 71. Lines suggested on reading a beautiful address to a Child by Alaric C. Watts Esqr, August 1823 72. [She “sleeps in Jesus.” Happy thus to rest] 73. [These little records of departed days] 74. To the Baby Maria 175. Poem for the Gravestone of John Saffery 76. To Jane Saffery, on her birthday, May 1st, 1825, a few weeks after the death of her Father 177. To Jane, May 1st, 1828 78. A Baptizing Hymn 79. Baptizing Hymn 80. ‘For the Album of a Very Little Child’ 81. To E. A. Bisdee, seven years old on her Birthday 82. [“She beareth gules” and warrior’s crest] 83. Reminiscences of the 20th and the 21st Addressed to my dear Mary 84. To Alfred Romilly Whitaker on ‘the plain’ at Stonehenge, August 1831 85. To the Memory of the Same 86. To Anna, November 7th, 1832 87. To a Child one year old with her i rst Alphabet 88. A Plea for Infant Schools 89. Addressed to the Contributors of an Infant School Bazaar held at Salisbury, 1833 90. To — in November, 1833 II. Poems on Sacred Subjects (1834) 91. Sonnet to John Saffery 92. The Flowers of the Desert …part contents/ III. Poems, 1835–44 168. To the Memory of Mrs. H. More 169. To the Memory of Dr Carey of Serampore 170. To the Memory of Carey 171. A Birthday Wish for November 9, 1835 – “The peace that passeth understanding” 172. Edith’s infant Smile, a song, for — 173. A Birthday T ought, 1 March 1836 174. For July 23rd, 1836 175. To my only Sister on her Birthday, 23 June 1837 176. Composed during the Banquet given in honour of the Queen’s visit to the City, 9 November 1837 177. To Jane, on the Birth of her First Child 178. Sonnet for the Coronation 179. To the Queen Dowager with “Sacred Poems” 180. To little Mary Bisdee born in Van Dieman’s land & lef in England by her mother – on her Birthday, 4 October 1838 181. To Rosalie Anne Green on her f f h Birthday, 6 March 1839 182. To an affectionate Domestic in the family of a friend with Spectacles once my own …Part Contents/ IV. Miscellaneous Poems, Fragments and Prose Pieces 223. Lacock Abbey 224. [A little something to provide] 225. [Swift as a dart my longing Soul shall fly] 226. To a very dear and very distant friend 227. I cannot see, thy shaded brow 228. Harvest Hymn 229. [Since Eden’s roses faded, since her bowers] 230. [There are who know not how to prove] 231. “T at you sorrow not as those without hope” [fragment] 232. The Beetle 233. Disappointment 234. Fragments 235. Four Prose Pieces by Maria Grace Saffery V. Poems by Women within the Saffery Circle Anne Andrews Whitaker 236. To my little Son Edwin Eugene on his Birthday June 22nd 1820 237. A Mother’s Wish, August 3rd 1820 238. To Mrs Caroline Whitaker on the seventy-eighth Anniversary of her birth, January 29th 1824 Jane Saffery Whitaker 239. Four Fragments 240. To my fondly loved, but hever doubting one 241. For my dear Children 242. Jane to Philip 243. [The Neriads are swelling the wint’ry wave]244. Fragment 245. The Pulpit Cushion Miscellaneous Poems 246. Lines addressed to Philip Whitaker on his 54th birthday by his three youngest children, composed in 1820 247. To my Friend and Pastor Revd P. J. Saffery 248. Memorial Poem for Maria Saffery, composed by her children Editorial Notes

These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country