Restoration & Augustan
Anne Killigrew
Anne Killigrew (1660–1685) was the daughter of Dr Henry Killigrew, Master of the Savoy and chaplain to the Duke of York. She became a maid of honour to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, and was a painter as well as a poet.
She died of smallpox on 16 June 1685, aged about twenty-five. Her Poems were published posthumously in 1686 with an ode to her memory by John Dryden, which has kept her name alive; the verses collected here are her own.
Poems (30)
- Alexandreis
- To the Queen
- A Pastoral Dialogue: Dorinda and Alexis
- On Death
- The First Epigram: Upon being Contented with a Little
- The Second Epigram: On Billinda
- The Third Epigram: On an Atheist
- The Fourth Epigram: On Galla
- A Farewel to Worldly Joys
- The Complaint of a Lover
- Love, the Soul of Poetry
- To my Lady Berkeley, Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service
- St. John Baptist Painted by her self in the Wilderness, with Angels appearing to him, and with a Lamb by him
- Herodias' Daughter presenting to her Mother St. John's Head in a Charger, also Painted by her self
- On a Picture Painted by her self, representing two Nimphs of Diana's, one in a posture to Hunt, the other Batheing
- An Invective against Gold
- The Miseries of Man
- Upon the saying that my Verses were made by another
- On the Birth-day of Queen Katherine
- To my Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor
- The Discontent
- A Pastoral Dialogue: Amintor and Alinda
- A Pastoral Dialogue: Melibæus, Alcippe, Asteria, Licida, Alcimedon and Amira
- On my Aunt Mrs A. K. Drown'd under London-bridge, in the Queens Bardge, Anno 1641
- On a young Lady Whose Lord was Travelling
- On the Dutchess of Grafton under the Name of Alinda: A Song
- Penelope to Ulysses
- An Epitaph on her Self
- An Ode
- Extemporary Counsel given to a Young Gallant in a Frolick