Charlotte smith elegiac sonnet 1

Supposed to be written by Werter. By the same. To the River Arun. To Friendship. To Miss C ——. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun. To the Naiad of the Arun. To a Friend.

To Fortitude. Sent to the Honourable Mrs O'Neill with painted flowers. From the Novel of Emmeline. To Night. To Tranquillity. Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex. On leaving a part of Sussex. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn To Fancy. From the Novel of Celestina. The Sleeping Woodman. The Return of the Nightingale.

The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America. To Dependance. To the South Downs. AH, hills belov'd! To Hope. OH, Hope! On the Departure of the Nightingale. SWEET poet of the woods—a long adieu! To Spring.

AGAIN the wood, and long withdrawing vale,. BLEST is yon shepherd, on the turf reclin'd,. And laugh at tears themselves have forc'd to flow. To Mrs. Why will Memory with officious care. To Sleep. COME balmy Sleep! Written on the Sea Shore. ON some rude fragment of the rocky shore,.

From Petrarch. LOOSE to the wind her golden tresses stream'd, [ 1]. WHERE the green leaves exclude the summer beam, [ 1]. YE vales and woods! From the thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio. ON thy gray bark, in witness of my flame, [ 1]. To the Earl of Egremont. To Mr. On receiving some elegant Lines from him. FOR me the Muse a simple band design'd. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage.

Supposed to be written by Werter. By the same. To Solitude. OH, Solitude; to thy sequester'd vale [ 1]. To the North Star. TO thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes, [ 1]. MAKE there my tomb beneath the lime trees' shade, [ 1]. Just before his Death. WHY should I wish to hold in this low sphere [ 1]. Lines five through eight of the poem show that she wants to be freed of her genius but knows that she never could. Better to be simple, innocent, and happy, rather than forced to be brilliant and haunted.

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