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Title: Elegiac sonnets. 5th ed., with additional sonnets and other poems
Year: 1789 (1780s)
Authors: Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806
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Publisher: London Printed for T. Cadell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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meteor, happinefs, That ftill mifleads the wanderers of the earth ?Strengthend by thee, this heart fhall ceafe to melt Oer ills that poor humanity muft bear;Nor friends eftrangd, or ties dillblvM be felt To leave regret, and fruitlefs anguifli there :And when at length it heaves its latefc figh,Thou and mild hope, fhall teach me how to die! Di SONNET ( 3& ) SONNET XXXVI. OHOULD the lone Wanderer, fainting on his way, Reft for a moment of the fultry hours,And tho his path thro thorns and roughnefs lay, Pluck the wild rofe, or woodbines gadding flowers;Weaving gay wreaths, beneath fome flickering tree, The fenfe of forrow, he awhile may lofe;So have I fought thy flowers, fair Poefy! So charmd my way, with Friendfhip and the Mufe.But darker now grows liies unhappy day, Dark, with new clouds of evil, yet to come,Her pencil fickening Fancy throws away, And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb;And points my wifhes to that tranquil fhore,Where the pale fpeclre Care, purfues no more. SONNET
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Pitlli*hil/7(■•> //Ar// //tr /mnV: ( 37 )SONNET XXXVII. SENT TO THE HONORABLE MRS. 0CNIELI., WITHPAINTED FLOWERS. J. HE poets fancy takes from Floras realm Her buds and leaves to dre<*s fictitious powers,With the green olive mades Minervas helm, And gives to Beautys Queen, the Queen of flowers.But what gay blofloms of luxuriant Spring,With rofe, mimofa, amaranth entwind,Shall fabled Sylphs, and fairy people bring, As a juft emblem of the lovely mind ?In vain the mimic pencil tries to blendThe glowing dyes that drefs the flowery race.Scented and colourd by an hand divine!Ah! not lefs vainly would the Mufe pretendOn her weak lyre, to fing the native graceAnd native goodnefs of a foul like thine! D 7 SONNET ( 3* )SONNET XXXVIII. FROM THE NOVEL OF IMMELINE. w HEN welcome (lumber fets my fpirit free, Forth to fictitious happlnefs it flies, And where Elyfian bowers of blifs arifeI feem, my E

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