General Introduction -- Chronology -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Poems in Robinson's Novels -- Index of First Lines -- References and Further Reading -- Abbreviations -- 'A Pastoral Ballad', Poems (1775) -- 'Another', Poems (1775) -- 'A Pastoral Elegy', Poems (1775) -- 'An Ode to Wisdom', Poems (1775) -- 'An Ode to Charity', Poems (1775) -- 'Th e Linnet's Petition', Poems (1775) -- 'A Character', Poems (1775) -- 'Written on the Outside of an Hermitage', Poems (1775) -- 'A Character', Poems (1775) -- 'Ode to Virtue', Poems (1775) -- 'An Epistle to a Friend', Poems (1775) -- 'On the Death of a Friend', Poems (1775) -- 'Th e Wish', Poems (1775) -- 'On a Friend', Poems (1775) -- 'On the Death of Lord George Lyttelton', Poems (1775) -- 'A Character', Poems (1775) -- 'Ode to Spring', Poems (1775) -- 'Letter to a Friend on Leaving Town', Poems (1775) -- 'Written Extempore on the Picture of a Friend', Poems (1775) -- 'Hymn to Virtue', Poems (1775) -- 'Song', Poems (1775) -- 'Song', Poems (1775) -- 'On the Birth-Day of a Lady', Poems (1775) -- 'To Aurelia on her Going Abroad', Poems (1775) -- 'To Love: Written Extempore', Poems (1775) -- 'Th e Complaint', Poems (1775) -- 'Th oughts on Retirement', Poems (1775) -- 'An Ode to Contentment', Poems (1775) -- 'A Song', Poems (1775) -- 'Th e Vision', Poems (1775) -- 'To Matilda', Poems (1775) -- 'Written on Richmond Hill', Town and Country Magazine ( January 1776) -- 'Captivity, a Poem', Captivity, a Poem and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale (1777) -- 'Celadon and Lydia, a Tale', Captivity, a Poem and Celadon and Lydia, a Tale (1777) -- 'Lines, Dedicated to the Memory of a Much-Lamented Young Gentleman', World (24 October 1788) -- 'To Him Who Will Understand It', World (31 October 1788) -- 'Th e Muse', World (13 November 1788) -- 'To Leonardo', World (6 December 1788) -- 'To Leonardo', World (28 February 1789) -- 'To Anna Matilda', World (6 March 1789) -- ['Life'], World (15 June 1789) -- 'Lines on Beauty', Oracle (24 June 1789)