SONNETS BY SUSAN EVANCE,
VOLUME ONE

  1. Why should I fear the spirits of the dead? (4.05)
  2. As o’er the gloomy heath the Pilgrim strays (3.50)
  3. As ’mid these mouldering walls I pensive stray (4.17)
  4. Pale ruthless Demon! terrible Despair! (3.34)
  5. O leave me not, Content! I cannot bear (3.45)
  6. Sweet Evening, hail! thy melancholy hour (3.26)
  7. I know thy charms, sweet Love! enchanting boy (3.34)
  8. With weeping tenderness once more I gaze (4.24)
  9. O ye who ride upon the wand’ring gale (3.33)
  10. Mild pensive Autumn! how I love to stray (4.08)
  11. Repentance, bathe me in thy sea of tears! (4.23)
  12. Spring’s sweet attendant! modest simple flower (3.53)
  13. O Happiness! thou fair enchanting form (3.28)

Released: March 2016;
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SONNETS BY SUSAN EVANCE,
VOLUME TWO

  1. When wintry tempests agitate the deep (3.36)
  2. Blakenham! although thy bounded scenes (3.44)
  3. O take me from the hated haunts of man (3.36)
  4. Ah no--enthusiasm’s hour is fled (4.09)
  5. Why do I muse on moments that are past (3.21)
  6. Now wild the blasts of Autumn sweep along (4.34)
  7. Where are the tearful smile of youthful Spring (3.41)
  8. Did I not see thee ope thy lovely eye (4.30)
  9. Ye rocks sublime, whose tops depending o’er (4.29)
  10. Yon oak has brav’d full many a wintry storm (3.40)
  11. Romantic shades, by nature wildly drest! (3.29)
  12. Contentment! I have left the lowly spot (3.48)
  13. O that religion in that breast did dwell! (4.08)

Released: March 2016;
© 2016, all rights reserved.

Download the full album (MP3) (free)
Bandcamp (free + bonus tracks) (⇒)
Amazon (⇒)
iTunes (⇒)
Spotify (⇒)

Cover art (A3) (PDF)
Cover art (A4) (PDF)
E-book (PDF)
Sheet music (PDF)

Little is known about Miss Evance, apart from her two volumes of poetry, published in 1808 and 1818, respectively. Somewhere between these publications she married a Mr. Hooper, and it is suggested she had children and a brother in the navy. Although reviews of her first collection were favourable, her second volume received little attention and, sadly, she dropped out of sight - and was quickly forgotten. These albums are based on Susan's 1808 publication ‘Poems, selected from her earliest productions, to those of the present year’. The music is a tribute to her beautiful, melancholic poetry. The artwork is taken from 18th-19th century paintings.

(Written in March 2016)