VOICES AN ANTHOLOGY OF THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC POEMS BY ENGLISH, SCOTCH, AND IRISH WOMEN SELECTED, ARRANGED, AND EDITED BY MRS. WILLIAM SHARP LONDON WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE 1887 PREFACE. ▼ VARIOUS circumstances have occurred to delay the ERRATA. Page 161, fourth line, read "For the ends," &c. Page 193, tenth line, read "aboard" instead of “abroad.” Page 205, tenth line, read "march on, glorious—” r originally of women regret the n enabled betic work f years. ɔme of the entury ago, the authors would have achieved a fame, or at any rate a reputation, beyond all comparison with the scanty meed of acknowledgment which is their present reward. It is, however, not generally recognised how much of verse of high intellectual and artistic quality has been written by women during the last two centuries. One or two names have a high place on the roll of fame; others are rewarded with honourable if somewhat patronising mention. and approval; and many whose productions are of a quality exceptionally noteworthy are totally forgotten, or -as in the case of living authors-strangely, and one is |