The Poetical Works of Anna Seward With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes |
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ON ELIZABETH,
WIFE OF J. B. SIMPSON, ESQ. OF BABWORTH, IN YORKSHIRE.
Though breathing tints, wak'd by this now cold hand,
To widow'd love's admiring gaze remain,
No more Eliza's melting tones expand,
Till choiring with the seraph's kindred strain.
To widow'd love's admiring gaze remain,
No more Eliza's melting tones expand,
Till choiring with the seraph's kindred strain.
Yet, while the mourner wails his years forlorn,
In floods of anguish, o'er her early doom,
Sky-towering Hope, on Faith's strong pinion borne,
Bursts the dark portals of the ruthless tomb.
In floods of anguish, o'er her early doom,
Sky-towering Hope, on Faith's strong pinion borne,
Bursts the dark portals of the ruthless tomb.
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