The Widow of the Rock, and Other Poems

The Widow of the Rock, and Other Poems - a volume of poems by the British-American poet Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett, published in Montreal in 1824. The collection includes, inter alia, the eponymous poem The Widow of the Rock and dozens of other songs, including To the Memory of General Agnew, On Visiting the Grave of my Daughter for the Last Time, On Credulity, The Consolations of Poetry, An Imitation, On Finding my Bower Covered with Worms, The Broken Heart, On a Friend Who Was Supposed to Have Suffered Shipwreck, On Seeing Two Funerals Pass by, Deserted Flower Garden, On Cupid, The Love-Sick Lady, Warning to a Lap-Dog, The Feather Fan and As Thine the Love that Ne'er Disdains. The volume also includes the poem The Desert Isle and poems by Soliloquy of Sappho before Prewizzy Herself from the Rock of Leucadia, Forget me not, To the Same, Petition of a Linnet Caught in a Limed Twig, The Joyful Coming of Birds, The Sparrow, The Mocking Bird, To a Humming-Bird, Lines Written During a Thunder-Storm and Lines to a Respected Friend. The poems are diverse in terms of style and version. The poet uses both simple, four-sided stanzas, as well as extended seven-wing stanzas (royal stanza) and nine-sided stanzas (Spenser stanza). Bibliography

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