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The Poetical Works of Anna Seward

With Extracts from her Literary Correspondence. Edited by Walter Scott ... In Three Volumes

Seward, Anna (1742-1809)

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SPEECH OF THE NYMPH OF THAT BROOK,

THE TERRESTRIAL YEAR,

INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE,

INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF THE COMPANION LANDSCAPE.

INSCRIBED ON THE BACK OF A LANDSCAPE,

ADDRESS TO THE RIVER IN A LANDSCAPE,

TO MISS HONORA SMITH of LICHFIELD.

ADMONITION TO ROSILDA.

A MARINE VIEW MORALIZED

TO ROBERT HARPER, Esq.

BALLAD IN THE ANCIENT SCOTCH DIALECT,

ADDRESSED TO THE REV. THOMAS SEDGEWICK WHALLEY,

THE GRAVE OF YOUTH.

TO MISS CATHERINE MALLET.

ELEGY, WRITTEN AS FROM A FRENCH LADY,

TO MISS MANSEL,

ADDRESS TO THE YOUNG ROSCIUS.

A FAVOURITE CAT'S DYING SOLILOQUY,

TO LITTLE CATHERINE HARPER, AGED THREE YEARS,

INSCRIBED ON THE BLANK LEAVES OF THE POEM MADOC.

TO F. N. C. MUNDY,Esq.

TO REMEMBRANCE.

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SONNET LI. TO SYLVIA,

ON HER APPROACHING NUPTIALS.

Hope comes to Youth, gliding thro' azure skies
With amaranth crown:—her full robe, snowy white,
Floats on the gale, and our exulting sight
Marks it afar.—From waning life she flies,
Wrapt in a mist, covering her starry eyes
With her fair hand.—But now, in floods of light,
She meets thee, Sylvia, and with glances, bright
As lucid streams, when Spring's clear mornings rise.
From Hymen's kindling torch, a yellow ray
The shining texture of her spotless vest
Gilds;—and the month that gives the early day
The scent odorous, and the carol blest,
Pride of the rising year, enamour'd May,
Paints its redundant folds with florets gay.

Milton, in the Par. Lost, gives the lengthened and harmonious accent to that word, rather than the short, and common one:

—“the bright consummate flower
“Spirit odorous breathes.”