Verse
Affliction (‘I know not what Affliction means’)
Unpublished.
*AsM 1
Autograph.
In: An autograph manuscript of sixteen poems by Mary Astell, in her semi-calligraphic script, a presentation copy with (f. 50v) a title-page, ‘A Collection of Poems humbly presented and Dedicated To the most Reverend Father in God William [Sancroft] By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury &c 1689’, (f. 51r-v), a prose dedicatory epistle to Archbishop Sancroft, and (f. 94r) an address leaf ‘To the most Reverend his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury These humbly present’, 49 quarto leaves, bearing traces of a red wax seal. c.1689.
This MS discussed in Ruth Perry, ‘A seventeenth-century feminist poet’, TLS, 20 August 1982, p. 911. It is described also in the online Perdita project.
Ambition (‘What's that with such vigour fills my breast?’)
Unpublished.
‘Awake my lute, daughters of Musick come’
Unpublished.
The Complaint (‘What dost thou mean my God (said I’)
Unpublished.
Death (‘It was a glorious and a cheerful day’)
Unpublished.
Enemies (‘I love you whom the World calls Enemies’)
Unpublished.
Heaven (‘In a poor simple Girl 'tis a bold flight’)
Unpublished.
Hell (‘With a short line, and scanty wit’)
Unpublished.
In emulation of Mr Cowley's Poem called the Motto page 1 (‘What shall i do? not to be Rich or great’)
Unpublished.
The Invitation (‘Come Muse, and leave those wings that soar’)
Unpublished.
Judgement (‘Tis said: the sacred word is past’)
Unpublished.
‘Since Praise is nauteous to a modest ear’
Unpublished.
Solitude (‘Now I with generous Cowley see’)
Unpublished.
The Thanksgiving (‘Hence you complaining thoughts away’)
Unpublished.
Virtue (‘Go despicable Virtue go’)
Unpublished.