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Alicia Cockburn

“I've seen the smiling / Of Fortune beguiling; / I've felt all its favours, and found its decay: / Sweet was its blessing, / Kind its caressing; / But now 'tis fled — fled far away.”
- Alicia Cockburn,
- "The Flowers of the Forest," in Frederic Rowton, The Female Poets of Great Britain (1856)

Alicia Cockburn, Scottish poet, wit, socialite

(1712 - 1794)

She is also seen as Alison Cockburn and Alison Rutherford.