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Elegiac sonnets, and other poems

by Charlotte Smith ... The eighth edition
Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749-1806)

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ELEGIAC SONNETS.
 LX. 
SONNET LX. TO AN AMIABLE GIRL.
 LXI. 
SONNET LXI. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN AMERICA.
 LXII. 
SONNET LXII. WRITTEN ON PASSING BY MOON-LIGHT THROUGH A VILLAGE, WHILE THE GROUND WAS COVERED WITH SNOW.
 LXIII. 
SONNET LXIII. THE GOSSAMER.
 LXIV. 
SONNET LXIV. WRITTEN AT BRISTOL IN THE SUMMER OF 1794.
 LXV. 
SONNET LXV. TO DR. PARRY OF BATH, WITH SOME BOTANIC DRAWINGS WHICH HAD BEEN MADE SOME YEARS.
 LXVI. 
SONNET LXVI. WRITTEN IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, ON THE COAST OF SUSSEX.
 LXVII. 
SONNET LXVII. ON PASSING OVER A DREARY TRACT OF COUNTRY, AND NEAR THE RUINS OF A DESERTED CHAPEL, DURING A TEMPEST.
 LXVIII. 
SONNET LXVIII. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, MIDSUMMER, 1795.
 LXIX. 
SONNET LXIX. WRITTEN AT THE SAME PLACE, ON SEEING A SEAMAN RETURN WHO HAD BEEN IMPRISONED AT ROCHFORT.
 LXX. 
SONNET LXX. ON BEING CAUTIONED AGAINST WALKING ON AN HEADLAND OVERLOOKING THE SEA, BECAUSE IT WAS FREQUENTED BY A LUNATIC.
 LXXI. 
SONNET LXXI. WRITTEN AT WEYMOUTH IN WINTER.
 LXXII. 
SONNET LXXII. TO THE MORNING STAR.
 LXXIII. 
SONNET LXXIII. TO A QUERULOUS ACQUAINTANCE.
 LXXIV. 
SONNET LXXIV. THE WINTER NIGHT.
 LXXV. 
SONNET LXXV.
 LXXVI. 
SONNET LXXVI. TO A YOUNG MAN ENTERING THE WORLD.
 LXXVII. 
SONNET LXXVII. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER.
 LXXVIII. 
SONNET LXXVIII. SNOWDROPS.
 LXXIX. 
SONNET LXXIX. TO THE GODDESS OF BOTANY.
 LXXX. 
SONNET LXXX. TO THE INVISIBLE MOON.
 LXXXI. 
SONNET LXXXI.
 LXXXII. 
SONNET LXXXII. TO THE SHADE OF BURNS.
 LXXXIII. 
SONNET LXXXIII. THE SEA VIEW.
 LXXXIV. 
SONNET LXXXIV. TO THE MUSE.
 LXXXV. 
SONNET LXXXV.
 LXXXVI. 
SONNET LXXXVI. WRITTEN NEAR A PORT ON A DARK EVENING.
 LXXXVII. 
SONNET LXXXVII. WRITTEN IN OCTOBER.
 LXXXVIII. 
SONNET LXXXVIII. NEPENTHE.
 LXXXIX. 
SONNET LXXXIX. TO THE SUN.
 XC. 
SONNET XC. TO OBLIVION.
 XCI. 
SONNET XCI. REFLECTIONS ON SOME DRAWINGS OF PLANTS.
 XCII. 
SONNET XCII. WRITTEN AT BIGNOR PARK IN SUSSEX, IN AUGUST, 1799.
  
THE DEAD BEGGAR.
  
THE FEMALE EXILE.
  
WRITTEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF A DISTRESSED PLAYER, DETAINED AT BRIGHTHELMSTONE FOR DEBT, NOVEMBER 1792.
  
INSCRIPTION On a Stone, in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex;
  
A DESCRIPTIVE ODE,
  
VERSES
  
SONG.
  
APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD TREE.
  
THE FOREST BOY.
  
ODE TO THE POPPY.
  
WRITTEN BY THE SAME LADY ON SEEING HER TWO SONS AT PLAY.
  
VERSES, ON THE DEATH OF THE SAME LADY,
  
FRAGMENT, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MISERIES OF WAR;
  
APRIL.
  
ODE TO DEATH.
  
STANZAS
  
TO THE WINDS.
  
TO VESPER.
  
LYDIA.

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SONNET XXIII. BY THE SAME. TO THE NORTH STAR.

To thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes,
Fair, fav'rite planet! which in happier days
Saw my young hopes, ah! faithless hopes!—arise,
And on my passion shed propitious rays!
Now nightly wandering 'mid the tempests drear
That howl the woods and rocky steeps among,
I love to see thy sudden light appear
Thro' the swift clouds—driven by the wind along:
Or in the turbid water, rude and dark,
O'er whose wild stream the gust of Winter raves,
Thy trembling light with pleasure still I mark,
Gleam in faint radiance on the foaming waves!
So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly,
Then fade:—and leave me to despair, and die!
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