The known works of Anna Seward include the following ;
Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Darwin (1804)Louisa, A Poetical Novel in Four Epistles (1784)(Numbers in parentheses refer to Scott's collection. Page links to the text of individual poems are on Anna Seward's page)
Seward wrote many sonnets, including;
Original Sonnets on Various Subjects: And Odes Paraphrased from Horace (1799) (100 sonnets, 26 odes, Volume III of Scott edition, pp. 122–222)Sonnet 10. To Honora Sneyd. [Honora, shou’d that cruel time arrive] 1773Sonnet 12. [Chill’d by unkind Honora’s alter’d eye] 1773Sonnet 14 [Ingratitude, how deadly is thy smart] 1773Sonnet, Written on Rising Ground, Near LichfieldSonnet [Igratitude,--how deadly is thy smart,]Sonnet, Written on Rising Ground, Near LichfieldSonnet, To a Young Lady in Affliction, Who Thought She Should Never More be Happy; Written on the Sea-ShoreSonnet [Now, young-ey’d Spring, on gentle breezes borne,]Sonnet. Invitation to a Friend.Sonnet [If he whose bosom with no transport swells]Sonnet, Laid in the drawer of the thatched shed by the brook at Plas Nwydd, the Villa of the Right Hon. Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby, in Llangollen Vale. Written in Autumn 1799.Sonnet to the Rev. Richard Polwhele, on his Poem upon the Influence of Local AttachmentPOLWHELE, whose genius, in the colours clear
Of poesy and philosophic art,
Traces the sweetest impulse of the heart,
Scorn, for thy Muse, the envy-sharpen'd spear,
In darkness thrown, when shielded by desert
She seeks the lyric fane. To virtue dear
Thy verse esteeming, feeling minds impart
Their vital smile, their consecrating tear.
Fancy and judgment view with gracious eyes
Its kindred tints, that paint the silent power
Of local objects, deeds of high emprize
To prompt; while their delightful spells restore
The precious vanish'd days of former joys,
By Love, or Fame, enwreath'd with many a flower.
