Author:Anne Kingsmill Finch

Anne Finch
(1661–1720)

Anne Finch

Works

Poetry

• The poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea: from the original edition of 1713 and from unpublished manuscripts (1903) (transcription project)

Anthologized:

• In Poems and Extracts (1905) by William Wordsworth:

  "In the Muse's paths I stray"

  Petition for an absolute Retreat

  Song ("Would we attain the happiest state")

  "Where is that World to which the fancy flies"

  A Nocturnal Reverie

  Fragment ("Peace! where art thou to be found?")

  Fragment ("So here confined, and but to female clay")

  From a Poem for the Birthday of the Lady Cathrine Tufton

  Life's Progress

  The Tree

  From a Poem on the Death of the Honble James Thynne younger Son of the Lord Viscount Weymouth

  Hope

  Song ("'Tis strange, this heart within my breast")

  From a Poem in praise of the invention of Letter Writing

  "Silvia, let us from the crowd retire"

  "O King of Terrors! whose unbounded sway"

Individual poems

• Enquiry After Peace (unindexed)
• The Dog And His Master (unindexed)
• The Spleen (unindexed)
• To the Nightingale (unindexed)

Works about Finch

• "Finch, Anne (d.1720)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.