Anne Kingsmill Finch's Poetry, by title

• "Trail all your pikes..."

  Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum,
  March in a slow procession from afar,

  8 lines
• A Contemplation

  Indulg'd by ev'ry active thought
  When upwards they wou'd fly

  96 lines
• A Description Of One Of The Pieces Of Tapistry At Long-Leat

  THUS Tapistry of old, the Walls adorn'd,
  Ere noblest Dames the artful Shuttle scorn'd:

  126 lines
• A Letter To Dafnis April: 2d 1685

  This to the Crown, and blessing of my life,
  The much lov'd husband, of a happy wife.

  17 lines
• A Letter ToThe Same Person

  Sure of Success, to You I boldly write,
  Whilst Love do's ev'ry tender Line endite;

  31 lines
• A Miller, His Son, And Their Ass

  THO' to Antiquity the Praise we yield
  Of pleasing Arts; and Fable's earli'st Field

  108 lines
• A Nocturnal Reverie

  In such a Night, when every louder Wind
  Is to its distant Cavern safe confin'd;

  49 lines
• A Pastoral Dialogue Between Two Shepherdesses

  [Silvia] Pretty Nymph! within this Shade,
  Whilst the Flocks to rest are laid,

  82 lines
• A Poem For The Birth-Day Of The Right Honble The Lady Catharine Tufton

  'Tis fit SERENA shou'd be sung.
  High-born SERENA, Fair and Young,

  76 lines
• A Song

  Persuade me not, there is a Grace
  Proceeds from Silvia's Voice or Lute,

  12 lines
• A Suplication For The Joys Of Heaven

  To the Superior World to Solemn Peace
  To Regions where Delights shall never cease

  82 lines
• A Tale Of The Miser And The Poet

  A WIT, transported with Inditing,
  Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing;

  109 lines
• Adam Pos'd

  Cou'd our First Father, at his toilsome Plough,
  Thorns in his Path, and Labour on his Brow,

  11 lines
• Alcidor

  While Monarchs in stern Battle strove
  For proud Imperial Sway;

  55 lines
• All Is Vanity

  How vain is Life! which rightly we compare
  To flying Posts, that haste away;

  309 lines
• An Apology For My Fearfull Temper

  Tis true of courage I'm no mistress
  No Boadicia nor Thalestriss

  84 lines
• An Epistle From A Gentleman To Madam Deshouliers

  URANIA, whom the Town admires,
    Whose Wit and Beauty share our Praise;

  49 lines
• An Epistle From Alexander To Hephaestion In His Sickness

  WITH such a Pulse, with such disorder'd Veins,
  Such lab'ring Breath, as thy Disease constrains;

  100 lines
• An Invitation To Dafnis

  When such a day, blesst the Arcadian plaine,
  Warm without Sun, and shady without rain,

  70 lines
• Ardelia To Melancholy

  At last, my old inveterate foe,
  No opposition shalt thou know.

  43 lines
• Consolation

  See, Phoebus breaking from the willing skies,
  See, how the soaring Lark, does with him rise,

  16 lines, 1 comment
• Cupid And Folly

  CUPID, ere depriv'd of Sight,
  Young and apt for all Delight,

  37 lines
• Democritus And His Neighbors

  IN Vulgar Minds what Errors do arise!
  How diff'ring are the Notions, they possess,

  73 lines
• Enquiry After Peace

  PEACE! where art thou to be found?
  Where, in all the spacious Round,

  41 lines
• Fanscomb Barn

  In Fanscomb Barn (who knows not Fanscomb Barn?)
  Seated between the sides of rising Hills,

  123 lines
• For The Better

  A Quack, to no true Skill in Physick bred,
  With frequent Visits cursed his Patient's Bed;

  52 lines
• Fragment

  SO here confin'd, and but to female Clay,
  ARDELIA's Soul mistook the rightful Way:

  40 lines
• Fragment At Tunbridge-Wells

  FOR He, that made, must new create us,
  Ere Seneca, or Epictetus,

  18 lines
• Friendship Between Ephelia And Ardelia

  Eph. What Friendship is, ARDELIA shew.
  Ard. 'Tis to love, as I love You.

  20 lines
• From The First Act Of The Aminta Of Tasso

  THEN, to the snowy Ewe, in thy esteem,
  The Father of the Flock a Foe must seem,

  234 lines

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