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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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The Bastille: A Vision
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Dulce Domum
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An Address to Poetry
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Duncan, an Ode
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Sonnet to Twilight
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An Ode on the Piece
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To The Baron De Humboldt,
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Sonnet on Reading Burns' Mountain Daisy
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A Song
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Lines To Helen
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Hymn Written Among The Alps
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Sonnet To The Torrid Zone
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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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The Complaint Of The Goddess Of The Glaciers To Doctor Darwin
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Lines Addressed To A.C.
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Sonnet To The Strawberry
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Sonnet to Hope
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Peruvian Tales: Cora, Tale VI
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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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Paraphrases from Scripture
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Peruvian Tales: Aciloe, Tale V
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Sonnet To Love
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Imitation of Lines
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Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale II
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The Scotch Ballad
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The Charter;
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Sonnet To Mrs. Bates
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Imitation Of Lines Written By Roucher
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Sonnet to the Moon
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Sonnet To Mrs. Siddons
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To Mrs. K--,
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The Travellers In Haste;
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Hymn, Imitated from The French
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To John Forbes, Esq.
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Euphelia
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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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A Hymn
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Verses Addressed To My Two Nephews
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Sonnet To The Curlew
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Ode to Peace
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Lines written In An Album
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Elegy On A Young Thrush
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To Sensibility
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Peruvian Tales: Alzira, Tale I
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To James Forbes, Esq.
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Edwin and Eltrada, a Legendary Tale
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To Dr. Moore,
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Sonnet To Simplicity
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To A Friend,
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Lines Written On The Pillar Erecting To The Memory Of Mr. Barlow
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Queen Mary's Complaint
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Sonnet to Peace of Mind
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Part of an Irregular Fragment
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The Morai
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Song
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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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An Epistle To Dr. Moore.
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Paraphrases From Scripture. ISAIAH xlix. 15.
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Paraphrases From Scripture. PSALM lxxiv. 16, 17.
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Paraphrases From Scripture. MATT. vii. 12.
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Peru. Canto The Fifth.
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A Hymn.
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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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