A Thornewill Tree

Introduction                                         Mary's Page

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Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner

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Introduction                             7

To the Reader                           12

To the Critics                          13

To a Lady who visited the author   when she was in great distress       14

To a Lady who desired me to pray   for the death of youngest child      17

Petition to the British Fair            19

On the Death of the Revd. Dr. Wylde,    late of Nottingham                   21

Address to the Ladies                   23

Ode to Hope                             25

Lines, Written in July, on Widow    Hind's garden, at  Hints, in    Staffordshire                       26

Poetic Letter                           28

The Locust                              29

Lines On the Death of a Gentleman    of Basford                          31  

Lines Written to a Gentleman who     asked the author to write some    Verses on a young Lady, but who    afterwards altered his mind         33

The Author to Her Infant Twins          35

Subscribers' Names                      36

Appendix: Mary Bailey's Obituary        37

Notes                                   38

Further Reading                         40

Index of titles and first lines         42

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