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Title: Upon the Sky-lights. From the Maypole in the Strand to the Maypole in Handbridge
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1715?
Manuscript: Lt q 66
Contents: Anonymous verse satire on politicians of the day, including Walpole, in the form of an imagined speech by a Maypole. The title in Crum is: 'A Letter from the May-Pole in the Strand to that at Furnham, at the time of the late Appearance in the
Clouds' (6 M
Title: A travellers observations
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- or 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt 35
Contents: Light-hearted observations by a traveller about what different parts of
Europe are best for
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 48
Contents: Love poem, comparing his beloved to the brightest of stars, giving life and
light to mankind
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 16-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 91
Contents: Comparing human life to the shortness of a day in winter, and the soul to the weak light cast by winter sun
Title: The feathers. A new song.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 176- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 49
Contents: Light-hearted song likening women fashionably dressed in feathers to birds, and men to bird catchers
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 172- ?
Manuscript: Lt 23
Contents: Praising the beauty of a young woman's eyes, making out they would supply
light at a time of darkness or eclipse
Title: Upon a lady that fancied everyone that saw her to be in love with her
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 11
Contents: Light satire on a conceited woman who believed her beauty made everyone fall
in love with her
Title: On a Quakers stopping up more than half his windows, March 1747
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1747 (title)
Manuscript: Lt 7
Contents: Lighthearted satire on a Quaker avoiding window tax supposedly by relying on
his inward light rather than windows
Title: To a lady upon her recovery of the smallpox
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Giving thanks for a woman's escape from smallpox and her continued beauty, in the light of his memory of another who died from the illness
Title: On a gentlewoman that was long blind before she died
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 174- or 175- ?
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem, expressing content with blindness as revealing the true way
to God and heaven more clearly than the supposed light of normal life, leading
to sin
Title: [unknown]
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: A most ingenious lady
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt 97
Contents: Explaining the origin of tobacco as a gift from the gods to cure the ills released from Pandora's box, suggesting that Prometheus really stole fire to light his pipe
Title: The soliloquy. An epigram [on Jemmy Twitcher (index)].
Author: Anonymous
Attribution: Baldwin's London Weekly Journal no.802, [Saturday] April 12, 1777 p.4 col.1,
Date(s): 1777 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 12
Contents: Light satire on John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich, depicting him, absent from
his mistress Martha Ray, resolving to turn to other pleasures now that he is
past the age for love