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<h2>Sonnets from <i>Dramatic Scenes, Sketches, and Other Poems</i></h2>
<h3>Edited by <span class="context" title="person">Lisa M. Wilson<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Lisa M. Wilson, Managing Editor, Bibliography and Correspondence, Founding Editor,
State University of New York at Potsdam
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Potsdam, where she has taught since 2005. Her areas of interest include transatlantic
Romantic and Victorian era literature, particularly women’s writing and popular forms
such as the Gothic novel and the literary ballad. She is also interested in book history
and bibliographical studies, particularly in the study of authorship in the long nineteenth
century (1780-1900). She has published in <span class="context" title="title">European Romantic Review</span>, <span class="context" title="title">Romanticism on the Net</span> (now <span class="context" title="title">RaVon</span>), <span class="context" title="title">Romantic Circles</span>, <span class="context" title="title">Romantic Textualities</span>, and elsewhere. She is currently working on a monograph on Romantic-period authorship
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Digital Mitford: Poetry
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Source: <span class="sourceBibl">Mitford, Mary Russell. <i><i>Dramatic Scenes, Sonnets, and Other Poems</i></i>.
<span class="context" title="place">London<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>London, England | London | England |
51.5073509 -0.12775829999998223
Capital city of England and the United Kingdom; one the oldest
cities in Western Europe. Major seaport and global trading center at the mouth
of the Thames. <span class="date" title="1831-1925">From 1831 to 1925</span>, the
largest city in the world.—lmw</span></span>:
<span class="context" title="org">G. B. Whittaker<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>G. B. Whittaker<br/>G. B. Whittaker was a publishing firm located in <span class="context" title="place">London</span>, founded and run by <span class="context" title="person">George Byrom Whittaker</span>, who was also a bookseller. <span class="context" title="person">George Whittaker</span> published under this firm name as well as under <span class="context" title="org">G. & W. B. Whittaker</span>, the firm founded and run by himself and his brother <span class="context" title="person">William Budd Whittaker</span>. Source: WorldCat.—lmw</span></span>
,
<span class="date" title="1827">1827</span>.</span>
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<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>I.
<br/><span class="title">WRITTEN IN A BLANK-PAPER BOOK GIVEN TO THE AUTHOR BY A FRIEND.</span><span id="Note1" class="anchor">[1] <span class="note" id="n1"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Also appeared in the <span class="context" title="title"><span class="date" title="1821">1821</span> <span class="context" title="title">New Monthly Magazine</span> as <span class="context" title="title">Sonnet. Written in a Blank Paper Book Given To the Author by a Friend</span>(page 387)</span>.—lmw</span></span></h3>
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<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L1">My little book, as o’er thy page so white.</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L2">With half-closed eyes in idlest mood I lean,</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L3">Whose is the form that rises still between</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L4">Thy page and me,—a vision of delight?</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L5">Look on those eyes by the bright soul made bright;</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L6">Those curls, which who <span class="context" title="person">Antinous<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Antinous
Antinous
| Born: 0111-11-27 in Claudiopolis, Bithynia, Roman Empire. Died: 0130-10-30 in Nile River, Egypt, Roman Empire. <br/>Beautiful young man who was a court favorite of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Hadrian
deified him after death and he was worshipped as a god (theos) and as a hero (heros)
in different sections of the Roman Empire. By the eighteenth century, his name had
become proverbial for a beautiful young man, often with a connotation of someone who
was an object of male homosexual desire.—lmw</span></span>’ bust hath seen</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L7">Hath loved; that shape which might beseem a queen;</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L8">That blush of purity; that smile of light.</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L9">’Tis she! my little book dost thou not own</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L10">Thy mistress? She it is, the only she!</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L11">Dost thou not listen for the one sweet tone</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L12">Of her unrivalled voice? Dost thou not see</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P1-L13">Her look of love, for whose dear sake alone,</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P1-L14">My little book, thou art so dear to me?</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
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<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>II.
<br/><span class="title">ON MRS.<span id="Note2" class="anchor">[2] <span class="note" id="n2"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Likely a 1827 printer’s error that should read MR., rather than MRS., Hofland. <span class="context" title="person">Thomas Hofland </span>was a painter; his spouse, <span class="context" title="person">Barbara Hofland</span>, was a writer.—slc</span></span> HOFLAND’S <span class="context" title="title">PICTURE OF JERUSALEM AT<br/>THE TIME OF THE CRUCIFIXION<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Jerusalem at the Time of the Crucifixion. <br/>A Hofland painting on a New Testament subject exhibited at the British Institution
(#33) in 1818. Purchased from the artist in 1824 for £150. Further exhibited in 1827
at the British Society of Fine Artists. Now at Tabley House, Cheshire, England. —lmw<br/>
<br/>
</span></span>.</span><span id="Note3" class="anchor">[3] <span class="note" id="n3"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>This poem first appears in print in <span class="context" title="title">The Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences</span>, Part 1, 59 (7 March 1818): 155 in the column <q>Original Poetry</q>. There, the poem is dated <span class="date" title="1818-02-24">24 February 1818</span>. This periodical also contains, on page 105, a review of Hofland’s painting as exhibited
at the British Institution. In <span class="context" title="title">La Belle Assemblee</span>’s review of the <span class="context" title="title">1827 Dramatic Scenes</span> volume, this poem was chosen to be reprinted in full in the review (See 5 (Jan. to
June 1827): 246).—lmw</span></span>
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<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L1"><span class="context" title="place">Jerusalem<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Jerusalem, Israel |
31.768319 35.21370999999999
Ancient city sacred to Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and
one of the oldest cities in the world. It is located in the Judaean Mountains,
between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean. Today, both the State of Israel and
the State of Palestine claim the city as their capital.—ebb, lmw</span></span>! and at the fatal hour!</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L2">No need of dull and frivolous question here!</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L3">No need of human agents to make clear</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L4">The most tremendous act of human power!</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L5">The distant cross; the rent and falling tower;</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L6">The opening graves, from which the dead uprear</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L7">Their buried forms; the elemental fear</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L8">Where horrid light and horrid darkness lower;</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L9">All tell the holy tale: the mystery</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L10">And solace of our souls. Awe-struck we gaze</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L11">On that so mute yet eloquent history!</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L12">Awe-struck and sad at length our eyes we raise</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P2-L13">To go;—yet oft return that scene to see</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P2-L14">Too full of the great theme to think of praise.</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
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<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>III.
<br/><span class="title">THE <span class="context" title="nature">FORGET-ME-NOT<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: Forget-Me-Not or
true Forget-Me-Not
or
water Forget-Me-Not
| Genus: Myosotis | Family: Boraginaceae | Species: Myosotis scorpioides. <br/>Blue-flowered perennial plant in the borage family, with long, narrow leaves, native
to Eurasia and widespread in the UK. Prefers damp or wet habitats, including riparians
areas, bogs, and ditches, and can form floating rafts in water. Symbolizes remembrance.
The subject of Mitford's sonnet <span class="context" title="title">The Forget-Me-Not</span>, which clearly describes the habit of the true or water forget-me-not. The woodland
forget-me-not is also native to the UK.—lmw, slc<br/>
<a href="https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=node/1653">https://www.brc.ac.uk/plantatlas/index.php?q=node/1653</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis_scorpioides">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myosotis_scorpioides</a>
</span></span>.</span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L1">Blossom that lov’st on shadowy banks to lie,</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L2">Gemming the deep rank grass with flowers so blue,</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L3">That the pure turquoise matched with their rich hue</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L4">Pales, fades, and dims; so exquisite a dye,</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L5">That scarce the brightness of the Autumn sky,</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L6">Which sleeps upon the bosom of the stream,</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L7">On whose fringed margent thy star-flowerets gleam</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L8">In its clear azure with thy tints may vie;</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L9">Shade-loving flower, I love thee! not alone</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L10">That thou dost haunt the greenest coolest spot,</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L11">For ever, by the tufted <span class="context" title="nature">alder<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: alder or
common alder
or
black alder
or
European alder
| Genus: Alnus | Family: Betulaceae | Species: Alnus glutinosa. <br/>Group of deciduous trees and shrubs with serrated leaves and woody catkins, generally
found in riparian and marshy areas. Native to Europe and the UK. Alder is a relatively
lightweight hardwood, used in furniture making, and the bark and wood contain tannins
used to tan leather. The rot-resistant wood was also traditionally used for building
foundations and making gunpowder.—lmw, slc<br/>
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/alder/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/alder/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alnus_glutinosa">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alnus_glutinosa</a>
</span></span> thrown,</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L12">Or arching <span class="context" title="nature">hazel<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: hazel or
common hazel
| Genus: Corylus | Family: Betulaceae | Species: Corylus avellana. <br/>Deciduous nut-bearing tree in the birch family, native to Europe and western Asia.
The fruit, called hazelnuts or cobnuts, are produced by male and female catkins, with the ripe nuts partially enclosed in
a husk and harvested in the late summer. Hazelnuts are round and the kernel edible
and may be eaten fresh or dried. Mitford employs the term <q>cobnut</q> and distinguishes it from the <q>filberd</q>. The shrubby trees form an important component of hedgerows, particularly in the
English lowlands. The trees may also be managed by coppicing, a practice that produces
the thin, curved poles traditionally used in making withy and wattle fencing, in wattle-and-daub
building, and in framing coracle boats.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Corylus_maxima">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Corylus_maxima</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/hazel/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/hazel/</a>
</span></span>, or vine mantled cot,</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P3-L13">But that thy very name hath a sweet tone</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P3-L14">Of parting tenderness—Forget me not!</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>IV. <br/><span class="title">TO <span class="context" title="person">MR. HENRY RICHARDSON<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Henry Kemp Richardson<br/>
<span class="context" title="person">Coles</span> says this is Henry Kemp Richardson of
<span class="context" title="place">Reading</span>, see p.471, note 5. One
of the 1827 sonnets is address to a Henry Richardson. Needs further
research.—kdc, lmw</span></span>,
<br/><span class="smallcaps">ON HIS PERFORMANCE OF <span class="context" title="person">ADMETUS<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Admetus<br/>Character in <span class="context" title="title">Alcestis</span> by <span class="context" title="person">Euripides</span>.
—lmw</span></span> IN THE <span class="context" title="title">ALCESTIS<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Alcestis. Euripides. <br/>Athenian tragedy attributed to Euripides. First produced at the City Dionysia festival
in 438 BCE; one of the earliest surviving plays of the
playwright.—lmw</span></span> OF <span class="context" title="person">EURIPIDES<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Euripides | Born: -0480 in Salamís. Died: -0406 in Macedonia. <br/>Ancient world playwright, considered together with <span class="context" title="person">Aeschylus</span> and <span class="context" title="person">Sophocles</span> as establishing the classical foundation of Western tragedy. Author of <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Ion</span>
</span>, on which <span class="context" title="person">Thomas Noon Talfourd</span> later based <span class="context" title="title">his own play of the same title</span>, as well as <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Orestes</span>
</span>, and <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Cyclops</span>
</span>, the only known complete example of a burlesque satyr play, translated into <span class="context" title="title">a satiric poem in <span class="date" title="1819">1819</span> by <span class="context" title="person">Percy Shelley</span>
</span>.
—ebb, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/265326651"></a>
</span></span>,
<br/>AS REPRESENTED IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK AT <span class="context" title="place">READING SCHOOL<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Reading School, Reading, Berkshire, England | Reading | Berkshire | England |
51.4486089 -0.9542480999999725
Public grammar school originally founded as a Reading Abbey school, which dates to
<span class="date" title="1125">1125</span>, located in <span class="context" title="place">Reading</span>. <span class="context" title="person">Dr. Richard
Valpy</span> was headmaster <span class="date" title="1754-1836">from 1754 to
1836</span> and was then succeeded by his son. <span class="context" title="person">Talfourd</span>was a pupil there. <span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span> wrote reviews for the <span class="context" title="title">Reading Mercury</span> of the plays performed there
by the pupils as part of the triennial Oxford School Visitations.—lmw</span></span>.
<br/><span class="date" title="1824-10">October, 1824</span>.</span></span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L1">For us, on whose sealed ear the classic strain</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L2">Of <span class="context" title="place">Athens<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Athens | Athens | Attica | Greece |
37.983972 23.727806
Ancient world city-state and currently the capital of Greece. During Mitford's time,
a stop on the Grand Tour, frequently referenced in literature as the center of Western
civilization and learning.—lmw</span></span>’ tenderest <span class="context" title="person">bard<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Euripides | Born: -0480 in Salamís. Died: -0406 in Macedonia. <br/>Ancient world playwright, considered together with <span class="context" title="person">Aeschylus</span> and <span class="context" title="person">Sophocles</span> as establishing the classical foundation of Western tragedy. Author of <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Ion</span>
</span>, on which <span class="context" title="person">Thomas Noon Talfourd</span> later based <span class="context" title="title">his own play of the same title</span>, as well as <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Orestes</span>
</span>, and <span class="context" title="title">
<span class="context" title="title">Cyclops</span>
</span>, the only known complete example of a burlesque satyr play, translated into <span class="context" title="title">a satiric poem in <span class="date" title="1819">1819</span> by <span class="context" title="person">Percy Shelley</span>
</span>.
—ebb, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/265326651"></a>
</span></span> would idly fall</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L3">As instrumental music, or the call</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L4">Of wordless <span class="context" title="nature">nightingale<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: nightingale | Genus: Luscinia | Family: Muscicapidae | Species: Luscinia megarhynchos. <br/>A medium-sized migratory songbird, brown above and beige or whitish below, native
to Eurasia and overwintering in sub-saharan Africa. Best known for its beautiful and
powerful song. Prefers habitats of coppiced woods and scrubland. Great Britain represents
the nothernmost extent of its range. Became proverbial for a person with a melodious
speaking voice or with an extraordinary singing voice.—SMP, lmw<br/>
<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/nightingale/">https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/nightingale/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Luscinia_megarhynchos">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Luscinia_megarhynchos</a>
</span></span>s, for us again</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L5">I thank thee, wondrous <span class="context" title="person">boy<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Henry Kemp Richardson<br/>
<span class="context" title="person">Coles</span> says this is Henry Kemp Richardson of
<span class="context" title="place">Reading</span>, see p.471, note 5. One
of the 1827 sonnets is address to a Henry Richardson. Needs further
research.—kdc, lmw</span></span>! that not in vain</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L6">The scene hath overpast which held in thrall</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L7"><span class="context" title="person">Milton<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>John Milton, Secretary for Foreign Tongues, or:
Secretary for Foreign Tongues
| Born: 1608-12-09 in Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England. Died: 1674-11-08 in Bunhill, London, England. <br/>English poet and polemical essayist who wrote in support of Parliamentary and Puritan
causes, best known for his epic poem <span class="context" title="title">Paradise Lost</span> (1667).—esh, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/17226855"></a>
</span></span> * and <span class="context" title="person">Wordsworth<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>William Wordsworth | Born: 1770-04-07 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Died: 1850-04-23 in Rydal Mount, near Amberside, Cumberland, England. <br/>First-generation poet of the Romantic era, Lake Poet and friend of fellow poet <span class="context" title="person">Coleridge</span>, who co-authored <span class="context" title="title">Lyrical Ballads</span> with him and to whom his major poem <span class="context" title="title">The Prelude</span> was originally addressed. Poet Laureate from 1843-1850, succeeding his sometime friend
and fellow Lake Poet <span class="context" title="person">Robert Southey</span> in that role.—lmw, rnes<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/35723133"></a>
</span></span>, mightiest names of all</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L8">Living or dead that haunt the <span class="context" title="org">Muses<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>the Muses | the nine Muses<br/>In Greek (and later Roman) mythology, the nine goddesses who live on Mount Helicon
and inspire mortals to create. Although in some traditions there were only three Muses,
by the Hellenistic period, nine was the accepted number, and they were believed to
be led by Apollo. By the neoclassical period, emblem books, sculpture, and painting
had standardized the depictions of the goddesses: Calliope (epic poetry) carries a
writing tablet and stylus or a lyre; Clio (history) carries a scroll or books; Euterpe
(lyric poetry and song) carries a flute (the aulos); Erato (erotic/love poetry) carries
a lyre or cithera or a crown of roses; Melpomene (tragedy) is seen with a tragic mask;
Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) is depicted veiled or with a pensive expression; Terpsichore
(choral song and dance) is depicted dancing or with a lyre; Thalia (comedy) is seen
with a comic mask or shepherd's crook; and Urania (astronomy) carries compasses and
a celestial globe.—lmw</span></span>’ fane!</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
</div>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L9">Thy genius was a language; voice and look,</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L10">Gesture and stillness the deep mystery</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L11">Of a strong grief unveiled. As lightnings dart</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P4-L12">Their quivering brightness o’er the world, each nook</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L13">Illumining and thrilling, so from thee</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P4-L14">Burst the storm-cloud of passion on the heart.</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MRMfn">
<hr class="MRMfn"/>* Milton’s allusion to the <span class="context" title="title">ALCESTIS<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Alcestis. Euripides. <br/>Athenian tragedy attributed to Euripides. First produced at the City Dionysia festival
in 438 BCE; one of the earliest surviving plays of the
playwright.—lmw</span></span> in the <span class="context" title="title">sonnet<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint. .
Milton
. London: Dring. 1673. <br/>Milton's sonnet later designated 23, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint, sometimes
referred to as On His Late Wife or On His Deceased Wife
—lmw</span></span> on his wife is well known. <span class="context" title="person">Mr. Wordsworth<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>William Wordsworth | Born: 1770-04-07 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. Died: 1850-04-23 in Rydal Mount, near Amberside, Cumberland, England. <br/>First-generation poet of the Romantic era, Lake Poet and friend of fellow poet <span class="context" title="person">Coleridge</span>, who co-authored <span class="context" title="title">Lyrical Ballads</span> with him and to whom his major poem <span class="context" title="title">The Prelude</span> was originally addressed. Poet Laureate from 1843-1850, succeeding his sometime friend
and fellow Lake Poet <span class="context" title="person">Robert Southey</span> in that role.—lmw, rnes<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/35723133"></a>
</span></span> in his <span class="context" title="title">Laodamia<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Laodamia. .
William Wordsworth
. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. 1815. </span></span> has the following exquisite lines on the same subject.
<div class="lg">——<span class="line">“Did not <span class="context" title="person">Hercules<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Hercules<br/>Roman god, the son of Jupiter and the mortal Alceme. Known as Heracles in Greek mythology. Proverbial for his strength.—lmw, slc</span></span> by force<br/></span>
<span class="line">Wrest from the guardian monster of the tomb<br/></span>
<span class="line"><span class="context" title="person">Alcestis<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Alcestis<br/>A princess in Greek mythology known for her loyalty to her husband and for returning
from the dead. She married King Admetus after he achieves the feat of yoking a lion
and a boar (or bear, in some versions) to a chariot. After the wedding, Admetus forgets
to make a sacrifice to Artemis and finds his bed full of deadly snakes. He escapes
death when Alcestis volunteers to die in his place; Alcestis is then rescued from
Hades with the help of Heracles and returns to the land of the living. She is the
titular character of a play by Euripides and was the subject of a painting by Angelica
Kauffman.—lmw</span></span> a reanimated corse,<br/></span>
<span class="line">Given back to dwell on earth in beauty’s bloom?”<span id="Note4" class="anchor">[4] <span class="note" id="n4"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Lines 79 to 82.—lmw</span></span><br/></span></div>
—MRM</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>V.
<br/><span class="title">WRITTEN <span class="date" title="1824-07">JULY, 1824</span>.</span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L1">How oft amid the heaped and bedded hay,</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L2">Under the <span class="context" title="nature">oak<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: common oak or English oak or pedunculate oak | Genus: Quercus | Family: Fagaceae | Species: Quercus robur. <br/>Mitford likely refers to the common or English oak (Quercus robur), a variety of white
oak, although the sessile oak (Quercus petraea) is also native to the Europe and the
UK. Large, long-lived deciduous hardwood tree with lobed leaves, hanging catkins in
spring, and then acorns, oval nuts with woody caps. In 19th-century English forests,
oak was the predominant deciduous tree, often found with <span class="context" title="nature">ash</span> and <span class="context" title="nature">elm</span>. A hard wood with a distinctive light-and-dark grain, used since the early medieval
period for making sturdy furniture, flooring, doors, household items such as chests
and buckets, and for building sailing ships, particularly large naval vessels. Because
the tree is large, strong and long-lived, it has accumulated numerous symbolic and
national associations, particularly in the UK. In English folklore, Robin Hood hid
in an oak to escape pursuers, and the oak became a national symbol after the future
<span class="context" title="person">Charles II</span> reportedly hid in an oak during the English Civil Wars. This tree became known as the Royal Oak, and led to a national celebration of Oak Apple Day in May. <q>Royal Oak</q> became a popular pub name, as well as the name of several Royal Navy warships. The
symbolic association between Britain's military strength and the strength of its men
is encapsulated in the song <span class="context" title="title">Heart of Oak</span>, written in 1759 and revised in 1809: <q>Heart of oak are our ships,/Hearts of oak are our men</q>. Oak leaves, like laurel, were used as ceremonial wreaths and crowns, and both oak
leaves and acorns appeared as neoclassical ornaments. The proverb <q>great oaks from little acorns grow</q>, dates from at least the 16th century, and the concept appears in Chaucer's <span class="context" title="title">Troilus and Criseyde</span>.
—lmw, slc<br/>
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/english-oak/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/english-oak/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quercus">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quercus</a>
</span></span>’s broad shadow deep and strong,</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L3">Have we sate listening to the noonday song</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L4">(If song it were monotonously gay)</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L5">Which crept along the field, the summer lay</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L6">Of the <span class="context" title="nature">grasshopper<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: grasshopper. <br/>Insect of the order of Orthoptera with large head, chewing mouthparts, and large hind
legs for jumping. Fourteen types of grasshoppers and groundhoppers are found in the
UK. The most common are the woodland, common green, field, meadow, and rufous grasshoppers.
Symbolic of laziness and lack of prudence and foresight in <span class="context" title="person">Aesop</span>'s fable, <span class="context" title="title">The Grasshopper and the Ant</span>. Mitford generally uses the simple term <q>grasshopper</q>.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caelifera">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Caelifera</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/crickets-and-grasshoppers/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/crickets-and-grasshoppers/</a>
</span></span>. Summer is come in pride</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L7">Of fruit and flower, garlanded as a bride,</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L8">And crowned with corn, and graced with length of day</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L9">But cold is come with her. We sit not now</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L10">Listening that merry music of the earth</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L11">Like <span class="context" title="person">Ariel<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Ariel<br/>Character in <span class="context" title="person">Shakespeare</span>'s <span class="context" title="title">The Tempest</span> who serves <span class="context" title="person">Prospero</span> under magical duress.—scw</span></span> <q>beneath the blossomed bough;</q><span id="Note5" class="anchor">[5] <span class="note" id="n5"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>See <span class="context" title="title">The Tempest</span>: <q>Merrily, merrily shall I live now/ Under the blossom that hangs on the bough</q> (act five, scene one).—slc</span></span></span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L12">But all for chillness round the social hearth</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P5-L13">We cluster.—Hark!—a note of kindred mirth</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P5-L14">Echoes!—Oh, wintery <span class="context" title="nature">cricket<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: cricket or
European field cricket
| Genus: Gryllus | Family: Gryllidae | Species: Gryllus campestris. <br/>A dark-colored flightless cricket found in dry grasslands and heathlands. In Mitford's
time, common in the UK and Western Europe; currently the most endangered cricket in
the UK, due to habitat loss, mainly surviving in southern England. Scaly crickets
and several species of bush crickets are also found in the UK. Symbolically associated
with good luck. Mitford generally uses the simple term <q>cricket</q>.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/field-cricket-reintroduction/">https://www.rspb.org.uk/our-work/conservation/projects/field-cricket-reintroduction/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/crickets-and-grasshoppers/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/animals/crickets-and-grasshoppers/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gryllus_campestris">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gryllus_campestris</a>
</span></span>, welcome thou!</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>VI.<br/><span class="title">TO MY <span class="context" title="person">MOTHER<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Mary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire,
England. <br/>
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> was the youngest child of
the <span class="context" title="person">Rev. Dr. Richard Russell</span> and
his second wife, <span class="context" title="person">Mary Dicker</span>; she was born about <span class="date" title="1750">1750</span> in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe, Hampshire</span>. (Her
birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years
older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a
distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two
siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents,
which resulted in <span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> inheriting
her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in <span class="date" title="1785">1785</span>. Her father’s rectory in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe</span> was only a
short distance from <span class="context" title="place">Steventon</span>, and so she was acquainted
with the young <span class="context" title="person">Jane Austen</span>. She married
<span class="context" title="person">George Mitford</span> or Midford on <span class="date" title="1785-10-17">October 17, 1785</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New Alresford,
Hampshire</span>. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their
addresses as <span class="context" title="place">Old Alresford</span>. Their only daughter,
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell Mitford</span>, was born two years
later on <span class="date" title="1787-12-16">December 16, 1787</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New
Alresford, Hampshire</span>. <span class="context" title="person">Mary
Russell</span> died on <span class="date" title="1830-01-02">January 2, 1830</span> at
<span class="context" title="place">Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield,
Berkshire</span>. Her obituary in the <span class="date" title="1830">1830</span>
<span class="context" title="title">New
Monthly Magazine</span> gives <q>New Year’s day</q> as the date of her death.—ajc, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/19709107"></a>
</span></span> SLEEPING.</span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L1">Sleep on, my <span class="context" title="person">mother<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Mary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire,
England. <br/>
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> was the youngest child of
the <span class="context" title="person">Rev. Dr. Richard Russell</span> and
his second wife, <span class="context" title="person">Mary Dicker</span>; she was born about <span class="date" title="1750">1750</span> in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe, Hampshire</span>. (Her
birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years
older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a
distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two
siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents,
which resulted in <span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> inheriting
her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in <span class="date" title="1785">1785</span>. Her father’s rectory in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe</span> was only a
short distance from <span class="context" title="place">Steventon</span>, and so she was acquainted
with the young <span class="context" title="person">Jane Austen</span>. She married
<span class="context" title="person">George Mitford</span> or Midford on <span class="date" title="1785-10-17">October 17, 1785</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New Alresford,
Hampshire</span>. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their
addresses as <span class="context" title="place">Old Alresford</span>. Their only daughter,
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell Mitford</span>, was born two years
later on <span class="date" title="1787-12-16">December 16, 1787</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New
Alresford, Hampshire</span>. <span class="context" title="person">Mary
Russell</span> died on <span class="date" title="1830-01-02">January 2, 1830</span> at
<span class="context" title="place">Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield,
Berkshire</span>. Her obituary in the <span class="date" title="1830">1830</span>
<span class="context" title="title">New
Monthly Magazine</span> gives <q>New Year’s day</q> as the date of her death.—ajc, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/19709107"></a>
</span></span>! sweet and innocent dreams</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P6-L2">Attend thee, best and dearest! Dreams that gild</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P6-L3">Life’s clouds like setting suns, with pleasure filled</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L4">And saintly joy, such as thy mind beseems,—</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L5">Thy mind where never stormy passion gleams,</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P6-L6">Where their soft nest the <span class="context" title="nature">dove<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: dove | Genus: Streptopelia | Family: Columbidae | Species: Columbidae. <br/>During the 19th century, four types of doves and pigeons were found in Britain: the
<span class="context" title="nature">stock dove</span>, the <span class="context" title="nature">rock dove</span>, or feral species of the domestic pigeon, and the <span class="context" title="nature">turtle dove</span>, as well as the <span class="context" title="nature">wood pigeon</span>. Domesticated pigeons such as carrier, homing, and racing pigeons are species of
the rock dove. In Britain, the <span class="context" title="nature">wood pigeon</span> is hunted as a game bird and domesticated pigeons were also used as food. In the
ancient world, doves were associated with goddesses of love, sexuality, and maternity,
such as Inanna Ishtar and Aphrodite. Doves carry symbolic significance in both the
Old and New Testaments of the Hebrew Bible: in Genesis in the story of Noah and the
ark as a symbol of peace and deliverance, in the Song of Songs as a term of endearment,
and in Matthew as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. Doves were also acceptable burnt offerings
and came to symbolize peace in early Christianity. Later literary and artistic references
often draw on this association of white doves with peace, deliverance, and spiritual
gifts, and are representations of the rock dove, which is highly variable in color,
ranging from white to shades of grey and pale brown.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/pigeons-and-doves/">https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/pigeons-and-doves/</a>
<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Columbidae">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Columbidae</a>
</span></span>-like virtues build</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L7">And calmest thoughts, like <span class="context" title="nature">violet<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: violet | Genus: Viola | Family: Violaceae. <br/>One of <span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span>’s favorite
flowers (as it was of many of her contemporaries), blooms in spring in
<span class="context" title="place">Berkshire</span>. Mentioned in the <span class="context" title="title">1811 Poems</span> as well as in <span class="context" title="title">Our Village</span> Mitford likely refers to wild
forms of the Viola, a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.
It is the largest genus in the family, containing more than 500 species. Most
species are found in the temperate <span class="context" title="place">Northern Hemisphere</span>.
The term <q>pansy</q> is normally used for those multi-coloured, large-flowered
cultivars which are used as bedding plants. The terms <q>viola</q> and <q>violet</q> are
used for small-flowered annuals or perennials, including the species. —lmw</span></span>s distilled,</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L8">Their fragrance mingle with bright wisdom’s beams.</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P6-L9">Sleep on, <span class="context" title="person">my mother<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Mary Russell Mitford, or: Mrs. Mitford | Born: 1750 in Ashe, Hampshire, England. Died: 1830-01-02 in Three Mile Cross, parish of Shinfield, Berkshire,
England. <br/>
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> was the youngest child of
the <span class="context" title="person">Rev. Dr. Richard Russell</span> and
his second wife, <span class="context" title="person">Mary Dicker</span>; she was born about <span class="date" title="1750">1750</span> in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe, Hampshire</span>. (Her
birth date is as yet unverified; period sources indicate that she was ten years
older than her husband George, born in 1760.) Through the Russells, she was a
distant relation of the Dukes of Bedford (sixth creation, 1694). She had two
siblings, Charles William and Frances; both predeceased her and their parents,
which resulted in <span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell</span> inheriting
her family’s entire estate upon her mother’s death in <span class="date" title="1785">1785</span>. Her father’s rectory in <span class="context" title="place">Ashe</span> was only a
short distance from <span class="context" title="place">Steventon</span>, and so she was acquainted
with the young <span class="context" title="person">Jane Austen</span>. She married
<span class="context" title="person">George Mitford</span> or Midford on <span class="date" title="1785-10-17">October 17, 1785</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New Alresford,
Hampshire</span>. On the marriage allegation papers, both gave their
addresses as <span class="context" title="place">Old Alresford</span>. Their only daughter,
<span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell Mitford</span>, was born two years
later on <span class="date" title="1787-12-16">December 16, 1787</span> at <span class="context" title="place">New
Alresford, Hampshire</span>. <span class="context" title="person">Mary
Russell</span> died on <span class="date" title="1830-01-02">January 2, 1830</span> at
<span class="context" title="place">Three Mile Cross in the parish of Shinfield,
Berkshire</span>. Her obituary in the <span class="date" title="1830">1830</span>
<span class="context" title="title">New
Monthly Magazine</span> gives <q>New Year’s day</q> as the date of her death.—ajc, lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/19709107"></a>
</span></span>! not the <span class="context" title="nature">lily<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: lily | Genus: Lilium | Family: Liliaceae. <br/>True lilies are flowering perennials that grow from bulbs, carrying large, trumpet-
or bell-shaped flowers, distributed throughout the world and cultivated as garden
plants. The quintessential lily in European culture is the white Madonna lily (Lilium
candidum), native to the Mediterranean, appearing in art, literature, and religious
text beginning in the ancient world. When Mitford uses the simple term lily, she likely refers to the Madonna lily.<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilium">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilium</a>
</span></span>’s bell</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L10">So sweet; not the enamoured west-wind’s sighs</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P6-L11">That shake the dew-drop from her snowy cell</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L12">So gentle; not that dew-drop ere it flies</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L13">So pure. E’en slumber loves with thee to dwell</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P6-L14">Oh model most beloved of good and wise!</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div> </div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>VII. <br/><span class="title">ON A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.</span><span id="Note6" class="anchor">[6] <span class="note" id="n6"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Also appeared in the <span class="context" title="title"><span class="date" title="1822">1822</span> <span class="context" title="title">New Monthly Magazine</span> as Sonnet. (page 192)</span>.—lmw</span></span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L1">Look where she sits in languid loveliness,</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L2">Her feet upgathered, and her turban’d brow</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L3">Bent o’er her hand, her robe in ample flow</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L4">Disparted! Look in attitude and dress</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L5">She sits and seems an Eastern Sultaness!</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L6">And music is about her, and the glow</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L7">Of young fair faces, and sweet voices go</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L8">Forth at her call, and all about her press.</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L9">But no Sultana she! As in a book</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L10">In that fine form and lovely brow we trace</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L11">Divinest purity, and the bright look</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L12">Of genius. Much is she in mind and face</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P7-L13">Like the fair blossom of some woodland nook</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P7-L14">The <span class="context" title="nature">wind-flower<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: anemone | Genus: Anemone | Family: Ranunculaceae. <br/> Mitford may refer to the wood anemone (Anemone
nemorosa), an early-spring flowering plant, native to Europe. Common names include
wood anemone, windflower,
thimbleweed, and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of the leaves.
However, she may also refer to one of the cultivated varieties not native to
England, such as the poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria), which is native to the
Mediterranean region but was cultivated elsewhere in Europe beginning in the eighteenth
century. Unlike the wood anemone, the poppy anemone appears in bright shades of
red and blue.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anemone">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anemone</a>
</span></span>*,—delicate and full of grace.</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MRMfn">
<hr class="MRMfn"/>* The <span class="context" title="place">Hampshire<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Hampshire, England |
Hampshire
England
|
51.05769480000001 -1.3080628999999817
County on the southern coast of England, known historically as
the County of Southampton. The county town is Winchester. Abbreviated Hants.
—lmw</span></span> name of the <span class="context" title="nature">wood-anemone<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Name: anemone | Genus: Anemone | Family: Ranunculaceae. <br/> Mitford may refer to the wood anemone (Anemone
nemorosa), an early-spring flowering plant, native to Europe. Common names include
wood anemone, windflower,
thimbleweed, and smell fox, an allusion to the musky smell of the leaves.
However, she may also refer to one of the cultivated varieties not native to
England, such as the poppy anemone (Anemone coronaria), which is native to the
Mediterranean region but was cultivated elsewhere in Europe beginning in the eighteenth
century. Unlike the wood anemone, the poppy anemone appears in bright shades of
red and blue.—lmw<br/>
<a href="https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anemone">https://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Anemone</a>
</span></span>.—MRM</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading">
<br/>VIII.
<br/><span class="title">TO <span class="context" title="person">MISS PORDEN<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Eleanor Anne Franklin Porden | Born: 1795-07-14 in London, England. Died: 1825-02-22 in London, England. <br/>Poet. Author of <span class="context" title="title">The Veils;
or the Triumph of Constancy</span> and <span class="context" title="title">Coeur de Lion; or the Third Crusade. A Poem in 16 books</span>. Daughter of the Hanoverian court architect William Porden. Married Arctic
explorer <span class="context" title="person">Sir John Franklin</span> in
1823. Died of consumption, complicated by childbirth.—lmw, rnes<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/62276884"></a>
</span></span>*,
<br/><span class="smallcaps">ON HER POEM OF <span class="context" title="title">COEUR DE LION<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Coeur de Lion; or the Third Crusade. A Poem in 16 books. . Eleanor Anne Franklin Porden. Eleanor Porden Franklin
Porden
Franklin
Eleanor
Anne
. 1822. </span></span>.</span></span><span id="Note7" class="anchor">[7] <span class="note" id="n7"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Also appeared in the <span class="context" title="title"><span class="date" title="1822-08-17">August 17, 1822</span> <span class="context" title="title">Literary Gazette</span> under the same title, dated <span class="date" title="1822-06-10">June 10, 1822</span> (page 519)</span>.—lmw</span></span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L1">Proudly thy sex may claim thee, young and fair</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L2">And lofty poetess! proudly may tell</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L3">How thou hast sung the arms invincible</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L4">Of him <span class="context" title="person">the lion-hearted<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Richard I of England
Richard Plantagenet
King of England
Duke of Normandy
Duke of Aquitaine
Count of Anjou
| Born: 1157-09-08 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. Died: 1199-04-06 in Châlus, Duchy of Aquitaine. <br/>House of Plantaganet; Angevin dynasty. Son of Henry II of
England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, his consort was <span class="context" title="person">Berengaria of Navarre</span>. Also known as Richard Coeur de Lion or
Richard the Lionheart. Folklore portraying Robin Hood as a supporter of Richard I
dates from the sixteenth century.
—lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/64016139"></a>
</span></span>, in the snare</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L5">Of <span class="context" title="place">Austria<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Austria | Austria |
47.333333 13.333333
Country in central Europe, now the Republic of Austria, made up of nine federated
states, whose capital is Vienna. From the 16th century, a center of the Habsburg monarchy
and an archduchy and center of the Holy Roman Empire. In the early 19th century, Austria
established itself as an empire and a leading power in the German Confederation.—lmw</span></span>, as amid the sultry glare</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L6">Of <span class="context" title="place">Palestine<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Palestine | Palestine |
31.6253 35.1453
In Mitford's time, refers not to a country, but to the geographic region in Western
Asia known as the Land of Israel or Holy Land referred to in the Christian Bible,
comprising the present-day state of Israel, the Palestinian territories, and parts
of Jordan. Similar names were used in the ancient world, and the region was later
the Roman province of Syria Palaestina. It also refers to the southern section of
broader regional designations such as Canaan or the Levant.—lmw</span></span>, triumphant; or the spell</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L7">Of poor <span class="context" title="person">Maimoune<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Maimoune<br/>Character from <span class="context" title="title">Arabian Tales</span>.—lmw</span></span>; or the thoughts that swell</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L8">When suddenly the old remembered air</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L9">Rings from the harp of <span class="context" title="person">Blondel<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Blondel<br/>Fictional character loosely based on a 13th-century French trouvére or troubador,
either Jean I of Nesle (died 1202) or his son Jean II of Nesle (died 1241), associated
with the more than twenty courtly songs attributed to Blondel de Nesle. In the <span class="context" title="title">Récits d'un Ménestrel de Reims</span>, Blondel is a mythologized minstrel character who rescues an equally mythologized
<span class="context" title="person">Richard I</span> from prison through his songs. Blondel's story became popularized in the late eighteenth
century and formed the basis for an opera as well as for Eleanor Porden's <span class="context" title="title">Coeur de Lion</span>, in which Blondel turns out to be Richard's wife <span class="context" title="person">Berengaria</span> in disguise.—lmw</span></span>; or the bright</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L10">And gorgeous train of <span class="context" title="place">England<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>England |
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Country in the British Isles. Borders Scotland and Wales. <span class="context" title="place">London</span> is the capital city, and is situated on the <span class="context" title="place">River Thames</span>.—bas</span></span>’s chivalry;</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L11">Or, worthy of his kingly foe, the might</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L12">Of paynim <span class="context" title="person">Saladin<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Saladin An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub Salah ad-Din | Born: 1137 in Tikrit, Iraq. Died: 1193-03-04 in Damascus, Syria. <br/>Known by his Arabic honorific,Salah ad-Din, westernized as Saladin. First Sultan of Egypt and Syria; founded the Ayyubid dynasty. In the 12th century,
led Muslim forces against the Catholic Crusader-state forces in the eastern Mediterranean.
Fought against <span class="context" title="person">Richard I</span> and Philip II of France in what was later known as the 3rd Crusade and negotiated
a three-year truce in the region.—lmw<br/>
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</span></span>. Oh, proud of thee</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P8-L13">Is woman! proud of thy bold muse’s flight!</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P8-L14">Proud of thy gentle spirit’s purity.</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
<div class="MRMfn">
<hr class="MRMfn"/>* My late dear and lamented friend <span class="context" title="person">Mrs. <span class="sic">Francklin</span><span class="reg">Franklin</span><span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Eleanor Anne Franklin Porden | Born: 1795-07-14 in London, England. Died: 1825-02-22 in London, England. <br/>Poet. Author of <span class="context" title="title">The Veils;
or the Triumph of Constancy</span> and <span class="context" title="title">Coeur de Lion; or the Third Crusade. A Poem in 16 books</span>. Daughter of the Hanoverian court architect William Porden. Married Arctic
explorer <span class="context" title="person">Sir John Franklin</span> in
1823. Died of consumption, complicated by childbirth.—lmw, rnes<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/62276884"></a>
</span></span>.—MRM</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>IX. <br/><span class="title">TO <span class="context" title="person">MR. HAYDON<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Benjamin Robert Haydon | Born: 1786-01-26 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Died: 1846-06-22 in London, England. <br/>Benjamin Robert Haydon was a painter educated at the
<span class="context" title="org">Royal Academy</span>, who was famous for
contemporary, historical, classical, biblical, and mythological scenes, though
tormented by financial difficulties. He painted <span class="context" title="person">William Wordsworth’s</span> portrait in 1842. <span class="context" title="person">MRM</span> was introduced to him at his London studio in the spring of
1817, and <span class="context" title="person">Sir William Elford</span> was a
mutual friend.
He
killed himself in 1846.
—ebb<br/>
English painter and author (1786-1846) Published <span class="context" title="title">Autobiography</span> in 3 vols.
(1853) John Keats named him in several poems.<br/>
—lmw</span></span>, ON A STUDY FROM NATURE.</span><span id="Note8" class="anchor">[8] <span class="note" id="n8"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Haydon study, as yet unidentified, from <span class="date" title="1817-05-21">before 21 May 1817</span>, the first publication date of the poem. May refer to a preliminary sketch for <span class="context" title="nature">Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem</span>.—lmw, slc</span></span><span id="Note9" class="anchor">[9] <span class="note" id="n9"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Also appeared in the <span class="context" title="title"><span class="date" title="1817-07-19">July 19, 1817</span> <span class="context" title="title">Literary Gazette</span> as <span class="context" title="title">To Mr. Haydon</span> dated <span class="date" title="1817-05-21">21st May, 1817</span> (page 41)</span>.—lmw</span></span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L1"><q>Tears in the eyes and on the lips a sigh!</q><span id="Note10" class="anchor">[10] <span class="note" id="n10"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Likely an inexact quotation from <span class="context" title="title">Marmion</span>: <q>She look’d down to blush, and she look’d up to sigh,/ With a smile on her lips and
a tear in her eye</q>, found in the often-quoted section on young Lochinvar.—lmw, slc</span></span></span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L2"><span class="context" title="person">Haydon<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Benjamin Robert Haydon | Born: 1786-01-26 in Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Died: 1846-06-22 in London, England. <br/>Benjamin Robert Haydon was a painter educated at the
<span class="context" title="org">Royal Academy</span>, who was famous for
contemporary, historical, classical, biblical, and mythological scenes, though
tormented by financial difficulties. He painted <span class="context" title="person">William Wordsworth’s</span> portrait in 1842. <span class="context" title="person">MRM</span> was introduced to him at his London studio in the spring of
1817, and <span class="context" title="person">Sir William Elford</span> was a
mutual friend.
He
killed himself in 1846.
—ebb<br/>
English painter and author (1786-1846) Published <span class="context" title="title">Autobiography</span> in 3 vols.
(1853) John Keats named him in several poems.<br/>
—lmw</span></span>! the great, the beautiful, the bold,</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L3">Thy wisdom’s king, thy mercy’s God unfold,</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L4">There art and genius blend in union high.</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L5">But this is of the soul. The majesty</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L6">Of grief is here, grief cast in such a mould</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L7">As <span class="context" title="person">Niobe<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Niobe<br/>Greek mythological figure who boasted of her fourteen children, (called the Niobids).
As a punishment for her boastfulness, Artemis killed all but one of her children.
Became emblematic of tears and extreme sorrow, particularly maternal grief.—lmw, slc</span></span> of yore. The tale is told</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L8">All at a glance—A childless mother I!</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L9">The tale is told:—but who can e’er forget</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L10">That e’er hath seen that visage of despair!</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L11">With unaccustom’d tears our cheeks are wet;</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L12">Heavy our hearts with unaccounted care;</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P9-L13">Upon our thoughts it presses like a debt;</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P9-L14">We close our eyes in vain—that face is there!</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>
</div>
</section>
<section class="poem">
<h3 class="poemHeading"><br/>X. <br/><span class="title"><span class="context" title="place">ENGLEFIELD HOUSE<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Englefield House, Englefield, Berkshire, England | Englefield | Berkshire | England
|
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Elizabethan-era country house, currently a Grade II listed building open to the public,
which has been used several times as a filming location. During Mitford's lifetime,
the estate was owned by of the Benyon family, including Richard Benyon the younger
(died 1796) and Richard Benyon De Beauvoir, to whom Mitford dedicated her poem <span class="context" title="title">Englefield House</span> in 1822.—lmw
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englefield_House#/media/File:Neale(1827)_p4.026_-_Englefield_House,_Berkshire.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englefield_House#/media/File:Neale(1827)_p4.026_-_Englefield_House,_Berkshire.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.englefieldestate.co.uk">http://www.englefieldestate.co.uk</a>
</span></span>: <br/><span class="smallcaps">THE SEAT OF <span class="context" title="person">R. BENYON DE BEAUVOIR, ESQ.<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Richard Benyon, or:
Richard Powlett-Wrighte
,
Richard Benyon De Beauvoir
| Born: 1769-04-28 in Westminster, London, England. Died: 1854-03-22. <br/>One of the wealthiest commoners in <span class="context" title="place">Berkshire</span> and a major landowner and philanthropist. A correspondent of <span class="context" title="person">Mary Russell Mitford</span>; <span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span> wrote a sonnet, <span class="context" title="title">Englefield House: The Seat of R. Benyon De Beauvoir, Esq., Near Reading,</span> printed in her 1827 poems. He served as a Justice of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenant
for Berkshire, and as High Sheriff of Berkshire.
—lmw<br/>
<a href="http://viaf.org/viaf/292786855"></a>
<br/>
<a href="http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/benyon-richard-ii-1770-1854"></a>
</span></span> NEAR <span class="context" title="place">READING<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Reading, Berkshire, England | Reading | Berkshire | England |
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County town in <span class="context" title="place">Berkshire</span>, in the Thames valley at the confluence
of the Thames and the River Kennet. The town developed as a river port and in
<span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span>’s time served as a staging point on
the Bath Road and was developing into a center of manufacturing. <span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span> lived here with her parents from <span class="date" title="1791-1795">1791 to 1795</span>, on Coley Avenue in the parish of St.
Mary’s and attended the Abbey School. The family returned to Reading from <span class="date" title="1797-1804">1797 to about 1804</span>, after which they
relocated to <span class="context" title="place">Bertram House</span>. They
frequently visited Reading thereafter from their homes at nearby <span class="context" title="place">Bertram House</span>, <span class="context" title="place">Three Mile Cross</span> and <span class="context" title="place">Swallowfield</span>. <span class="context" title="person">Mitford</span> later used scenes from <span class="context" title="place">Reading</span> as the basis for <span class="context" title="title">Belford
Regis; or Sketches of a Country Town</span>.—lmw</span></span>.</span></span></h3>
<div class="lg">
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L1">There is a pride, as of an elder day</span><span class="lineNumber">1</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L2">About thee, <span class="context" title="place">Englefield<span class="si"><span class="topBox"><span class="clickAway">☐</span></span>Englefield House, Englefield, Berkshire, England | Englefield | Berkshire | England
|
51.443 -1.106
Elizabethan-era country house, currently a Grade II listed building open to the public,
which has been used several times as a filming location. During Mitford's lifetime,
the estate was owned by of the Benyon family, including Richard Benyon the younger
(died 1796) and Richard Benyon De Beauvoir, to whom Mitford dedicated her poem <span class="context" title="title">Englefield House</span> in 1822.—lmw
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englefield_House#/media/File:Neale(1827)_p4.026_-_Englefield_House,_Berkshire.jpg">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Englefield_House#/media/File:Neale(1827)_p4.026_-_Englefield_House,_Berkshire.jpg</a>
<a href="http://www.englefieldestate.co.uk">http://www.englefieldestate.co.uk</a>
</span></span>! Midway thy steep</span><span class="lineNumber">2</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L3">And wood-crowned eminence, where round thee sweep</span><span class="lineNumber">3</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L4">Green flowery lawns, trees in the fresh array</span><span class="lineNumber">4</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L5">Of summer, meadows with the close-piled hay</span><span class="lineNumber">5</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L6">Studded, blue waters that do seem to creep</span><span class="lineNumber">6</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L7">All listlessly for heat, and cots that sleep</span><span class="lineNumber">7</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L8">I’ the sunshine. How thou tower’st above the gay</span><span class="lineNumber">8</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L9">And lovely landscape, in the majesty</span><span class="lineNumber">9</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L10">Of thy old beauty! Even those mansions bright,</span><span class="lineNumber">10</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L11">That pretty town, that gothic chapelry *</span><span class="lineNumber">11</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L12">With front and pinnacle so rich and light,</span><span class="lineNumber">12</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line indent-2" id="P10-L13">Seem all as toys and costly pageantry</span><span class="lineNumber">13</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="line" id="P10-L14">Made but for thy proud halls and their delight.</span><span class="lineNumber">14</span></div>