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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 THE CALBASSIA-TREE.

Sublime Calbassia! luxuriant tree,
How soft the gloom thy bright-hued foliage throws!
While from thy pulp a healing balsam flows,
Whose power the suff'ring wretch from pain can free:
My pensive footsteps ever turn to thee!
Since oft, while musing on my lasting woes,
Beneath thy flowery white-bells I repose,
Symbol of Friendship dost thou seem to me;
For thus has Friendship cast her soothing shade
O'er my unshelter'd bosom's keen distress,
Thus sought to heal the wounds which Love has made,
And temper bleeding sorrow's sharp excess!
Ah! not in vain she lends her balmy aid—
The agonies she cannot cure are less!