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Anne Lynch Botta

1815–1891

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815–1891) was an American poet and teacher, born in Bennington, Vermont, and raised in Providence, Rhode Island.

From the 1840s she hosted a celebrated literary salon at her New York home, which drew the city’s writers and artists, and she published her Poems in 1848 and again in an enlarged edition in 1853.

Poems (98)

  1. A Dirge for O’Connell
  2. A Farewell to Ole Bull
  3. A Remembrance
  4. A Thought by the Sea-Shore
  5. An Apology for Sadness
  6. An Imitation
  7. Aspiration
  8. Bones in the Desert
  9. Books for the People
  10. Bryant
  11. Byron Among the Ruins of Greece
  12. Cheney
  13. Christ Betrayed
  14. Day-Dawn in Italy
  15. Durand
  16. Epigram
  17. Eros
  18. Evening Hymn
  19. Faith
  20. From De Vigny
  21. Hagar
  22. Hope
  23. Washington
  24. Image Worship
  25. La Fayette
  26. Lines
  27. Lines on Reading Some Verses Entitled “A Farewell to Love”
  28. Lines on an Incident Observed from the Deck of a Steamboat on the Mississippi River
  29. Lines to Frederika Bremer
  30. Lines to One Who Wished to Read a Poem I Had Written
  31. Little Red Riding Hood
  32. Love
  33. Memory
  34. Milton
  35. Nightfall in Hungary
  36. Ode
  37. Ode for the Fourth of July
  38. On Seeing Mrs. Kean as Constance in King John
  39. On Seeing the Ivory Statue of Christ
  40. On a Picture ("When Summer o’er her native hills")
  41. On a Picture ("Why bends she o’er that glittering toy")
  42. On a Picture of My Father
  43. On a Picture of Harvey Birch
  44. On a Picture of Ruth
  45. On a Picture of the Virgin
  46. On the Death of Mrs. N. P. Willis
  47. On the Death of a Friend
  48. On the Death of an Infant
  49. Paul Preaching at Athens
  50. Prometheus
  51. Requiem
  52. Science
  53. Sonnet ("Oh! in that better land to which I go")
  54. Sonnet ("Oh thou who once on earth, beneath the weight")
  55. Tarpeia
  56. Teaching the Scriptures
  57. The Battle of Life
  58. The Bee
  59. The Dumb Creation
  60. The Dying Sycamores
  61. The Earth to the Sun
  62. The Ideal
  63. The Ideal Found
  64. The Image Broken
  65. The Lake and Star
  66. The Mediterranean
  67. The Sun and Stream
  68. The Wasted Fountains
  69. The Wounded Vulture
  70. Thoughts in a Library
  71. To ****, With Flowers
  72. To ——, in Obscurity
  73. To —— ("Within these leafless trees")
  74. To —— ("They may talk of the eloquence famous in story")
  75. To —— ("Ah no! my love knows no vain jealousy")
  76. To —— ("I do not ask if an illustrious name")
  77. To —— ("Give me but the energy")
  78. To —— ("This life is to thee like a region enchanted")
  79. To —— ("In the noble army of Reform")
  80. To —— ("The brilliant west is glowing")
  81. To —— ("Upon the sea of life")
  82. To —— ("Thou dost not dwell in this dark world of ours")
  83. To —— ——
  84. To Dr. ——
  85. To Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  86. To Mrs. Kean
  87. To a Child
  88. To a Friend, on Being Asked for Some Verses
  89. To a Poet’s Wife
  90. To a Poet, Painter and Musician
  91. To a Silent Poet
  92. To an Astronomer
  93. To the Century Plant
  94. To the Memory of Channing
  95. To the Sun
  96. To the Venerable General Gaines
  97. Webster
  98. Written at Tivoli Falls

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