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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.

QUEEN MARY'S COMPLAINT.

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 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.

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DULCE DOMUM,

AN OLD LATIN ODE,

SUNG ANNUALLY BY THE WINCHESTER BOYS UPON LEAVING COLLEGE AT THE VACATION.

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[Translated at the Request of Dr. Joseph Warton.]

Lov'd Companions, let us sing!
Wake the dear according string—
Come, with gladness fill the dome,
Pour the happy song of Home.

Chorus.

Now, sweet Home! our steps are free;
Now, sweet Home! we fly to thee!
Let the vaulted roofs resound
Sacred Home, with blessings crown'd!

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Learning, thorny are thy ways,
Thought is weary of the maze;
Let us seek awhile the goal
Where affection rests her soul!

Chorus.

—Now, sweet Home, &c.

Now, O toiling Muse, repose;
Muse! the classic volume close:—
Bid the cares of study cease,
Give the vacant hours to peace!

Chorus.

—Now, sweet Home, &c.

Joyful with the smiling year,
We will smile, for Home is near!—
Strangers will our song repeat—
Strangers feel that Home is sweet!

Chorus.

—Now, sweet Home, &c.

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Bring, O bring th' impatient steed,
Let us to the threshold speed,
Where we shed the tear of bliss,
Where we meet a mother's kiss!

Chorus.

—Now, sweet Home, &c.

Home of childhood! swell the strain,
While we hail thy gates again!
Why, Aurora, thus delay?
Slothful goddess, give the day!

Chorus.

—Now, sweet Home, &c.