ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EARL TALBOT, (LORD-LIEUTENANT OF THE COUNTY OF STAFFORD,) AS A TRIBUTE OF DEEP AND SINCERE RESPECT, THESE POEMS ARE DEDICATED BY HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT, GEORGIANA BENNET. UNDER THE IMMEDIATE PATRONAGE OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND. HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF PORTLAND. THE RIGHT HON. THE COUNTESS OF WARWICK. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL TALBOT. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF LIVERPOOL. THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF BRADFORD. THE RIGHT HON. LORD LYTTLETON. THE RIGHT HON. LADY LYTTLETON. THE RIGHT HON. LORD LYNDHURST. THE RIGHT HON. LORD LEIGH. SIR J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT, BART., M.P. SAMUEL ROGERS, ESQ. CHARLES DICKENS, ESQ. THOMAS MOORE, ESQ. JAMES MONTGOMERY, ESQ. MRS. SOUTHEY (MISS CAROLINE BOWLES). WILLIAM BENNITT, ESQ PREFACE. CIRCUMSTANCES over which I had no control, have led to the publication of “IANTHE” a few months after that of the "EGLANTINE." The sole excuse I can offer to those who have so kindly and warmly patronised me is, that the same circumstances will oblige me to withdraw from the "service of the Muse." In publishing what is most probably my last work, I avail myself of the opportunity to express my gratitude for the support I have received, both for this, and my former works. And now-" not in the matter-of-course manner in which the word is generally used," but wishing it may express the grateful feeling it is intended to convey, I say FAREWELL! GEORGIANA BENNET. SOHO HILL, BIRMINGHAM, February, 1841. |