 | The works, in verse and prose, of the late Robert Treat Paine, Jun. Esq |  |
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SONNET TO PHILENIA, ON A STANZA, IN HER ADDRESS TO MYRA.
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The Stanza, which suggested this Sonnet, is highly encomiastick on Mr. Paine. It is here given from the Massachusetts Magazine of Feb. 1793.
“Since first Affliction's dreary frown
“Gloomed the bright summer of my days,
“Ne'er has my bankrupt bosom known
“A solace, like his peerless praise.”
“Gloomed the bright summer of my days,
“Ne'er has my bankrupt bosom known
“A solace, like his peerless praise.”
Thy “bosom bankrupt!”—fair Peru divine
Of every mental gem, that e'er has shone,
In dazzled Fancy's intellectual mine,
Or ever spangled Virtue's radiant zone.
Of every mental gem, that e'er has shone,
In dazzled Fancy's intellectual mine,
Or ever spangled Virtue's radiant zone.
Thy “bosom bankrupt!”—Nature, sooner far,
Shall roll, exhausted, flowerless springs away;
Leave the broad eye of noon, without a ray,
And strip the path to heaven of every star.
Shall roll, exhausted, flowerless springs away;
Leave the broad eye of noon, without a ray,
And strip the path to heaven of every star.
Thy “bosom bankrupt!”—Ah, those sorrows cease,
Which taught us, how to weep, and how admire;
The tear, that falls to soothe thy wounded peace,
With rapture glistens o'er thy matchless lyre.
Ind and Golconda, in one firm combined,
Shall sooner bankrupt, than Philenia's mind.
Which taught us, how to weep, and how admire;
The tear, that falls to soothe thy wounded peace,
With rapture glistens o'er thy matchless lyre.
Ind and Golconda, in one firm combined,
Shall sooner bankrupt, than Philenia's mind.
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