Annotated Chronology: Anne Finch
Title Index
 - A - 
Untitled. A brief song [For the soft
Joys of Love  . . . ]
 Untitled: These verses were inserted
. . . [Absence in love . . . ]
 A Act of Contrition
 Adam Pos'd	
 Advertisement for the Gazetter,
Flying post, Weekly journal . . . [Whereas 'tis . . . ]
An Advertisement [I having seen . . . ]
After drawing a twelf cake
 The Agreeable [She is not fair . . . ]
 The agreeable [Tho Sir I do much . . . ]
Alcidor
 All is Vanity
[Aminta:] Amintor being ask'd by Thirsis . . . 
 [Aminta:]  From the French translation . . . the Golden Age
[Aminta:] From the French Translation . . . Though wee of Small . . . 
[Aminta:]  Some Peices out of the First Act . . .  Dafne's answer
[Aminta:] Thirsis persuades Amintor . . .
An Answer to Mirtilla [Ripped out]	
 [Untitled] Apollo.  [An Invocation . . . I
grant thee . . . ]
An Apology for my fearfull
temper
The Appology
 Ardelia's answer to Ephelia
 Areta [Folger: Ardelia] to
Melancholy
Aristomenes, or The Royal
Shepherd
[Aristomenes]
EPILOGUE
[Aristomenes:] Prologue,
To my Lord Winchilsea
An Aspiration
 At first Waking
[Athalia] Part of the Fifth
Scene in the Second Act
 The ATHEIST and the
ACORN
 - B - 
A Ballad [The South Sea affair . . .
]
A Ballad to Mrs Catherine Fleming in
London from Malshanger farm . . . 
 The Bargain. a Song between Bachus
& Cupid
 The Battle between the Rats and the
Weazles	
Being an Excellent Ballad . . . an
Accident that happen'd at Ld Weymouth at Long-Leat . . . 
The Bird
 The Brass-Pot, and Stone-
Jugg
Untitled. A brief song [For the soft
Joys of Love  . . . ]
 - C - 
 Caesar and Brutus
Untitled [Call Delia Whore . . .
]
 The cautious Lovers
 The Change
 The Circuit of Appollo
Clarinda's Indifference at Parting with
Her Beauty
 The Consolation [See!  Phoebus . . .
]
A Contemplation
Untitled [Cosmelia's charmes . . .
]	
 The Critick and the Writer of
FABLES.
Cupid and Folly
 - D - 
The Decision of Fortune. A
FABLE	
Democritus and his
Neighbours
 A Description of One of the Pieces
of Tapistry at Long-Leat
A Dialogue [When my Aminta weeps .
. . ]
 The DOG and his MASTER
[Don Carlos:] A Prologue
 - E - 
 The Eagle, the Sow, and the
Cat
 On Easter Day
 An Elegy. From the Muses at
Parnassus	
an enquiry after peace [Verses, incerted in a letter to my
Lady Thanet]
The Enquiry
 EPILOGUE [to
Aristomenes]
 An Epilogue to . . .  Jane
Shore
 An EPISTLE from a Gentleman to
Madam Deshouliers
 An Epistle from Alexander to
Ephestion
An Epistle, From Ardelia to Mrs.
Randolph
An Epistle to Mr Prior on the New
Edition of His Work's.	
 An Epistle to Mrs Catherine Fleming
at Coleshill
An Epistle to the honourable Mrs.
THYNNE, persuading her to have a Statue made
 The Equipage
The EXECUTOR
 - F - 
A Fable [A MAN whose house  . . .
]
The Fall of Caesar
 Fanscomb Barn
The First Edilium of Bion English'd	
 The first twelve Verses . . . 
 The following Lines . . . the Marriage
of Edward . . . Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert
The following poem is taken from
the Epistle for the monday before Easter [Who is this from Edom . . . ]
For Mrs Catherine Flemming at ye
Lord Digby's at Coleshill at Warwickshire
 For the better [1713:  imitated from
Sir Roger L'Estrange]
Untitled. A brief song [For the soft
Joys of Love  . . . ]
The Forty-Fifth Ode of
Anacreon
Fragment at Tunbridge-
Wells
A Fragment of a dessign'd Poem
upon Pitty
Fragment [So here confin'd, and but
to female Clay]
Freindship Between Ephelia and
Ardelia
The Free-Thinkers
From St Austin's manual . . . The
desire of that Soul which hath a feeling . . . 
 From the French translation of . . .
Aminta . . . the Golden Age
 From the French Translation of  . . .
Aminta . . . [Though wee of Small . . . ]
 From the French Translation of
Petrarqu'188th Sonnett [When Phoebus, at declining . . . ]
 - G - 
unknown [Give me, Oh!--2nd petition
poem . . . .]	
The Goute and Spider
The Grove
	
 - H - 
 The happynesse of a departed
Soul
 Hallelujah
 Herbert [The following Lines . . . the
Marriage of Edward . . . Mrs. Elizabeth Herbert]
 The Hog, the Sheep, and Goat
carrying to a FAIR	
 Honour. A Song
 Hope
The House of Socrates
an Hymne Compos'd of the 148th
Psalm Paraphras'd
 An Hymn of Thanksgiving after a
dangerous fit of sickness
A Hymn to Venus
The Hyp In a Letter to W: C--
Esq
 - I - 
In a Pindarick Poem upon the late
Hurrycane . . .  [You have obey'd . . .]	
[To a Freind [Flavio.]  In Praise of the
Invention of writing Letters
 The Introduction	
 An Invitation to Dafnis. To leave his
Study . . . 
 [Untitled] An Invocation to Apollo [ I
grant thee . . . ]
An Invocation to Sleep
An Invocation to the southern
Winds
 - J - 
[Jane Shore:] An
Epilogue to . . .  Jane Shore
 Jealousy:  A Song [Vain Love, why
dos't thou boast . . .]
 Jealousie is the Rage of a
Man
 The Jester and the little
Fishes
 Jupiter and the Farmer.
 - K - 
 The King and the
Shepheard
 - L - 
 La Passion Vaincue
 The last chapter of Eclesiastes
Paraphras'd
 The Lawrell [You who remote . . .
]
A Letter to Daphnis at London
	
 A Letter to [Dafnis] Daphnis from
Westminster Ap: the 2d: 1685
A Letter to Flavio
A Letter to Mr. Finch, Aprill the 2d
85
A Letter to Mr. Finch from Tunbridge
wells, August 17th, 1685.
 A Letter to Mr. Finch Oct. 21st
1690
 A Letter to Mrs Arrabella
Marow
A Letter to My Sister Ogle From
Kyrby
A Letter to the Hon: ble Lady
Worseley at Long-Leat	
A Letter to the same person
 Life's Progress
 Untitled. Lines upon Eastwell
Park
[Longleat ballad:] Being an Excellent
Ballad . . . an Accident that happen'd at Ld Weymouth at Long-Leat . . . 
 The LORD and the
BRAMBLE
 The Losse
 Love Death and Reputation
LOVE'S RELIEF
 The LYON and the GNAT
 - M - 
 The MAN and his HORSE.
The Man bitten by Fleas
 Man's Injustice towards
Providence	
 Mary Magdalen at our Saviour's
Tomb
The MASTIFF and CURS
 A Maxim for the Ladys
 Melinda on an insipped Beauty [You,
when your body . . . Sapho's]
 MERCURY and the
ELEPHANT
 The Miller, his Son and the Asse	
 The misanthrope
 Moderation or The Wolves and the
Sheep
 A Moral Song [Wou'd we attain . .
.]
 THE Mussulman's Dream OF THE
VIZIER and DERVIS
 My Sister Ogle From Kyrby
 - N - 
A New Ballad [To all you sparkling  . .
. ]
 A Nocturnal Reverie
No Grace
 - O - 
 Occasion'd By the Death of Collonel
Baggot
 An Ode Written upon Christmas Eve
. . . 1714 
Untitled [Ombre and Basset . . .
]
 On Absence.  From the Maxims of
Bussy Rabutin
On a double Stock July-
flower
On Affliction
On a Short Visit 
 On Grief
 On Lady Cartret drest like a
shepherdess at Count Volira's ball
On my being charged with writing a
lampoon at Tunbridge
On my Selfe
On the Death of the Honourable Mr.
James Thynne
 On the Death of the Queen
 On the Lord Dundee
 On these Words--for as much as ye
did it unto the last of these my Brethren [Why are my steps with held . . . ]
On these Words--thou has hedg'd
my way with thorns.
On Nicolini's leaving the
stage
 The 146th Psalm
Paraphras'd
 Over the Picture of Major
Pownoll
The Owl Describing Her Young
Ones
 - P - 
 Parting with Beauty
 Part of the Fifth Scene in the
Second Act of Athalia
 A Pastoral. Between Menalcus and
Damon	
 A Pastoral Dialogue Between two
Shepheardesses
 The Petition for an Absolute
Retreat
[Petrarch:] From the French
Translation of Petrarqu'188th Sonnett [When Phoebus, at declining . . . ]
The Philosopher, the Young Man,
and his Statue
 The PHOENIX. A SONG
In a Pindarick Poem upon the late
Hurrycane . . .  [You have obey'd . . .]	
 A Poem For the Birth Day of the Right
Honorable the Lady Catherine Tufton
 A Poem Occasion'd by the sight of
the 4th Epistle Lib. Epist. 1 of Horace
	
 The Poor man's Lamb or Nathan's
Parable to David		
 A Prayer for Salvation
The Preface
 A Preparation to Prayer
 The Prevalence of Custom
 The prodigy
 Prologue, To my Lord Winchilsea
[Aristomenes]
 A Prologue, To Don Carlos
 Psalm the 137th Paraphras'd to the
7th Verse
 the puggs
 - Q - 
TheQueen Cypress, or Love Above Ambition [The
Triumphs of Love and Innocence]
 - R - 
 Ralpho's Reflections Upon the
Anniversary of His Wedding.
 Reflections upon part of the 8th
verse of the 148 Psalm [You have obey'd . . .]	
REFORMATION
The Retirement	
Right Zeal	
 - S - 
The Safety of a low State
[Sapho, from the Greek of:] A Hymn
to Venus
[Sapho's] Melinda on an insipped
Beauty [You, when your body . . . Sapho's]
 The Second Chapter of the Wisdom
of Solomon
The Shepherd and the Calm
 The Shepherd Piping to the
Fishes
	
 A Sigh
 Untitled [Sir plausible as 'tis well
known]
 To Sleep
Soliloquy
Solitude	
Some occasional Reflections
Digested (Tho not with great regularity) into a Poeme.
[Aminta:]  Some Peices
out of the First Act . . . Aminta . . .  Dafne's answer to Silvia
 Some Reflections in a Dialogue
between Teresa and Ardelia
 The Song, by a female musician,
Phelinda [Song from Triumphs/Queen Cypress]
 A Song [By love pursu'd . . . ]
 A Song, by Marina
[from Triumphs/Queen Cypress]
 A Song [Cease Mirtilla & c]
 A Song design'd to have been
brought into the part between Climander and Herminia [Wretched Amintor,
Aristomenes]
 A Song for a Play. Alcander to
Melinda.
 A Song [for my Br. Les Finch]. Upon
a Punch Bowl.
 A Song [If for a Woman . . .
]
 A Song [Lett the Fool . . . ]
 A Song [Love, thou art best . . .
]
	
 A Song made to be sung in a play by
a woman [Witt as free . . . ]
A Song: Melinda to Alcander [Witt as
free . . . ]
 A Song [Miranda hides her . . . .
]
	
 A Song of the Canibals
 A Song [Perswade me not, there is a
grace]
	
 A Song [Quickly Delia learn my
passion]
 A Song [Strephon whose person . . .
]
 The Song, sung by shepherdesses [A
yong shepheard . . . Aristomenes]
 A Song [The Nymph in vain. . .
]
A song [The Pretious hours of flying
Youth]
 A Song ['Tis strange, this heart . .
.]
 A Song [Vain Love, why dos't thou
boast . . .]
 A Song [Whilst Thirsis, in his Pride . .
.]
 The Spleen	
Sullen Green or Wully's
farewell
 A Suplication for the joys of
Heaven
 - T - 
A Tale of the Miser, and the
Poet.
 A Tale [Over a cheerful cup. . .
]
Temptations
 The 10th part of the 119th Psalm
Paraphras'd
 Untitled: These verses were inserted
. . . [Absence in love . . . ]
Thirsis persuades Amintor not to dispair [Aminta]
 There's no To-morrow
The 30th Ode of Anacreon
 Timely Advice to Dorinda
The TOAD undrest.
 To a fellow Scribbler
 To a Freind [Flavio] in Praise of the
Invention of writing Letters
 To a Lady who having desired me to
compose somthing . . .
To Belinda
 To Death
 To Dr. Waldron
 To Edward Jenkinson
 To Daphnis Who going abroad had
disired Ardelia to write . . . 
To Flavia
 To Flavia. By whose perswasion . . .
]
 To . . . Frances Countess of Hartford
who engaged Mr Eusden to write upon a wood . . . 
To his Excellency the Lord Cartret at
Stockholm
To Mr. F. now Earl of W. Who going
abroad . . . 
To Mr. Granville, on his
Comedy
 TO MR. JERVAS
 To Mr. POPE
 To Mr Pope In Answer to a coppy of
verses
 To Mr. Prior, from a LADY
Unknown
To Mrs Arabella Marrow upon the
Death of Lady Marrow
To Sleep [An Invocation]
To the Countess of Hartford on her
Lord's Birthday
 To the Echo in a clear night upon
Astrop Walks
		
 To the Hon ble Mrs H---n [Where is
the trust . . . ]
 To the Honourable The Lady Worsley
at Long-leate
"To the Hon ble Mrs Thynne after
twelfth Day
To the Lord March upon the death of
his sparrow
 To the Rev Mr. Bedford
 To the Right honourable the
Countess of Hartford with her volume of Poems
 To the Rt. Honble the Lady Tufton
Upon Adressing to me the first Lette
To the Rt Hon ble ye Ld Viscount
Hatton . . .  an imitation of . . . Deshouliers]
To the Nightingale
To the Painter of an ill-drawn Picture
of CLEONE,
 The Tradesman and the
Scholar
The Tree	
The Triumphs of Love and
Innocence [Queen of Cypress]
 - U - 
 Under the picture of Mr John
Dryden
 Under the picture of Marshall
Turenne
 Under the picture of Sr George
Rooke
The unequal Fetters
Upon a Company of bad Dancers to
good Musick
 Upon an impropable undertaking
[sic]
 Upon Ardelia's return home
 Upon Lady Selena Shirly's picture
drawn by Mr Dagar
 Upon my Lord WINCHILSEA's
converting the Mount in his Garden . . .	
Upon the Death of King James the
Second
 Upon the Death of . . . Lord
Maidston	
 Upon the Death of Sir William
Twisden
[upon the late Hurrycane:]  In a
Pindarick Poem . . .  [You have obey'd . . .]	
 [Upon these words . . . ] Gold is try'd
in the fire . . . 
 - V - 
Verses, incerted in a letter to my
Lady Thanet; being an enquiry after peace
 Verses written under the King of
Sweden's Picture
 - W - 
Untitled [We did attempt to travell . .
.]
 The white mouses petition
The Wit and the Beau [Strephon
whose person . . . ]
 Written after a violent and dagerous
fit of Sicknesse
 Written before a French
Book
 - Y - 
 The Young RAT and his DAM, the
COCK and the CAT
Detail from a painting of the Rotunda at Beachborough House, Kent, attributed to Edward Haley,
mid-18th century
	
	
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