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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 DISAPPOINTMENT.

Pale Disappointment! at thy freezing name
Chill fears in every shiv'ring vein I prove;
My sinking pulse almost forgets to move,
And life almost forsakes my languid frame.
Yet thee, relentless nymph! no more I blame:
Why do my thoughts 'midst vain illusions rove?
Why gild the charms of friendship and of love
With the warm glow of fancy's purple flame?
When ruffling winds have some bright fane o'erthrown,
Which shone on painted clouds, or seem'd to shine,
Shall the fond gazer dream for him alone
Those clouds were sable, and at fate repine?—
I feel, alas! the fault is all my own,
And ah, the cruel punishment is mine!