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Helen Maria Williams was a British novelist poet and translator of French-language works A religious dissenter she was a supporter of abolitionism and of the ideals of the French Revolution she was imprisoned in Paris during the Reign of Terror but nonetheless spent much of the rest of her life in France A controversial figure in her own time the young Williams was favorably portrayed in a 1787 poem by William Wordsworth but she was portrayed by other writers as irresponsibly politically radical and even as sexually wanton

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An Address to Poetry
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Duncan, an Ode
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To The Baron De Humboldt,
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An Ode on the Piece
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Sonnet on Reading Burns' Mountain Daisy
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Sonnet To Disappointment
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Lines On The Tomb Of A Favorite Dog
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Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale IV
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Sonnet To The Torrid Zone
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A Song
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Hymn Written Among The Alps
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Lines Addressed To A.C.
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Lines To Helen
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The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin
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Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale VI
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Sonnet to Twilight
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Sonnet To The Calbassia-Tree
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An American Tale
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The Linnet And The Cat
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An Epistle To Dr. Moore
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Dulce Domum
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Paraphrases from Scripture
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Peruvian Tales: Aciloe, Tale V
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Imitation of Lines
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Sonnet To Love
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Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale II
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Sonnet to Hope
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The Scotch Ballad
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Sonnet To Mrs. Bates
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The Charter;
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Imitation Of Lines Written By Roucher 71 ViewsRate it
Sonnet To Mrs. Siddons
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Hymn, Imitated from The French
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The Travellers In Haste;
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To Mrs. K--,
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To John Forbes, Esq.
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Sonnet To The White-Bird Of The Tropic
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Peruvian Tales: Zilia, Tale III
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The Bastille: A Vision
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Euphelia
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A Hymn
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Sonnet To The Strawberry
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Verses Addressed To My Two Nephews
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Sonnet To The Curlew
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Lines written In An Album 52 ViewsRate it
Elegy On A Young Thrush
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Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale I
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Sonnet to the Moon
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Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale
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Ode to Peace
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Lines Written On The Pillar Erecting To The Memory Of Mr. Barlow
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Sonnet To Simplicity
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To A Friend,
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Queen Mary's Complaint
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To Dr. Moore,
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Part of an Irregular Fragment
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The Morai
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To James Forbes, Esq.
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Sonnet to Peace of Mind
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Song
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To Sensibility
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On the Bill Which Was Passed in England For Regulating the Slave-Trade
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Sonnet To Expression
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A Song.
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Paraphrases From Scripture. PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17.
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An Epistle To Dr. Moore. 5 ViewsRate it
Paraphrases From Scripture. MATT. vii. 12.
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A Hymn.
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Peru. Canto The Fifth.
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Paraphrases From Scripture. ISAIAH xlix. 15.
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An American Tale.
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An Epistle To Dr. Moore, Author Of A View Of Society And Manners In France, Switzerland, And Germany.
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Euphelia, An Elegy.
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