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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.
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PERUVIAN TALES.
 I. 
ALZIRA.
 II. 
ALZIRA.
 III. 
ZILIA.
 IV. 
CORA.
 V. 
ACILOE.
 VI. 
CORA.
  
THE BASTILLE,
  
EUPHELIA,
  
DUNCAN,
  
QUEEN MARY'S COMPLAINT.
  
TO SENSIBILITY.
  
EDWIN AND ELTRADA,
  
ODE TO PEACE.
  
THE MORAI.
  
SCOTCH BALLAD.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
SONG.
  
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.
  
DULCE DOMUM,
  
ELEGY ON A YOUNG THRUSH,
  
THE LINNET AND THE CAT.
  
TO DR. MOORE,
  
HYMN,
  
IMITATION OF LINES
  
IMITATION OF LINES
  
TO A FRIEND,
  
THE COMPLAINT
  
VERSES
  
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.
  
TO MRS. K---,
  
THE TRAVELLERS IN HASTE;
  
TO JAMES FORBES, Esq.
  
LINES
  
THE CHARTER;
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
LINES
  
A HYMN.
  
PARAPHRASE.
  
PARAPHRASE.
  
PARAPHRASE.
  
PARAPHRASE.
  
HYMN,

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SONNET TO MRS. SIDDONS.

Siddons! the Muse, for many a joy refin'd,
Feelings which ever seem too swiftly fled,
For those delicious tears she loves to shed,
Around thy brow the wreaths of praise would bind;
But can her feeble notes thy praise unfold?
Repeat the tones each changing passion gives?
Or mark where nature in thy action lives,—
Where, in thy pause, she speaks a pang untold?
When fierce ambition steels thy daring breast,
When from thy frantic look our glance recedes?
Or, oh, divine enthusiast! when, opprest
By mournful love, that eye of softness pleads?
The sunbeam all can feel, but who can trace
The instant light, and catch the radiant grace?
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