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Poems on Various Subjects

With Introductory Remarks on the present State of Science and Literature in France

Williams, Helen Maria (1762-1827)

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AN ADDRESS TO POETRY.

PERUVIAN TALES.

QUEEN MARY'S COMPLAINT.

TO SENSIBILITY.

EDWIN AND ELTRADA,

ON THE BILL WHICH WAS PASSED IN ENGLAND

AN AMERICAN TALE.

PART OF AN IRREGULAR FRAGMENT.

SONNET TO HOPE.

SONNET TO TWILIGHT.

SONNET ON READING BURNS' “MOUNTAIN DAISY.”

SONNET TO THE MOON.

SONNET TO PEACE OF MIND.

SONNET TO MRS. SIDDONS.

SONNET TO MRS. BATES.

SONNET TO EXPRESSION.

SONNET TO LOVE.

SONNET TO DISAPPOINTMENT.

SONNET TO SIMPLICITY.

SONNET TO THE STRAWBERRY.

SONNET TO THE CURLEW.

SONNET TO THE TORRID ZONE.

SONNET TO THE CALBASSIA-TREE.

SONNET TO THE WHITE-BIRD OF THE TROPIC.

ELEGY ON A YOUNG THRUSH,

THE LINNET AND THE CAT.

IMITATION OF LINES

IMITATION OF LINES

TO JAMES FORBES , Esq. Author of “The Oriental Memoirs,”

LINES WRITTEN ON THE PILLAR ERECTING TO THE MEMORY OF MR. BARLOW, Minister of the United States at Paris,

TO THE BARON DE HUMBOLDT, ON HIS BRINGING ME SOME FLOWERS IN MARCH.

THE TRAVELLERS IN HASTE;

TO JAMES FORBES, Esq.

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SONNET TO TWILIGHT.

Meek Twilight! soften the declining day,
And bring the hour my pensive spirit loves;
When o'er the mountain slow descends the ray
That gives to silence and to night the groves.
Ah, let the happy court the morning still,
When, in her blooming loveliness arrayed,
She bids fresh beauty light the vale or hill,
And rapture warble in the vocal shade.
Sweet is the odour of the morning's flower,
And rich in melody her accents rise;
Yet dearer to my soul the shadowy hour
At which her blossoms close, her music dies:
For then, while languid Nature droops her head,
She wakes the tear 'tis luxury to shed.