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Elegiac sonnets, and other poems

by Charlotte Smith ... The eighth edition
Smith, Charlotte Turner (1749-1806)

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VOL. I.
  
[dedication]
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ELEGIAC SONNETS.
 I. 
SONNET I.
 II. 
SONNET II. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING.
 III. 
SONNET III. TO A NIGHTINGALE.
 IV. 
SONNET IV. TO THE MOON.
 V. 
SONNET V. TO THE SOUTH DOWNS.
 VI. 
SONNET VI. TO HOPE.
 VII. 
SONNET VII. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
 VIII. 
SONNET VIII. TO SPRING.
 IX. 
SONNET IX.
 X. 
SONNET X. TO MRS. G.
 XI. 
SONNET XI. TO SLEEP.
 XII. 
SONNET XII. WRITTEN ON THE SEA SHORE.—OCTOBER, 1784.
 XIII. 
SONNET XIII. FROM PETRARCH.
 XIV. 
SONNET XIV. FROM PETRARCH.
 XV. 
SONNET XV. FROM PETRARCH.
 XVI. 
SONNET XVI. FROM PETRARCH.
 XVII. 
SONNET XVII. FROM THE THIRTEENTH CANTATA OF METASTASIO.
 XVIII. 
SONNET XVIII. TO THE EARL OF EGREMONT.
 XIX. 
SONNET XIX. TO MR. HAYLEY, ON RECEIVING SOME ELEGANT LINES FROM HIM.
 XX. 
SONNET XX. TO THE COUNTESS OF A---.
 XXI. 
SONNET XXI. SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY WERTER.
 XXII. 
SONNET XXII. BY THE SAME. TO SOLITUDE.
 XXIII. 
SONNET XXIII. BY THE SAME. TO THE NORTH STAR.
 XXIV. 
SONNET XXIV. BY THE SAME.
 XXV. 
SONNET XXV. BY THE SAME. JUST BEFORE HIS DEATH.
 XXVI. 
SONNET XXVI. TO THE RIVER ARUN.
 XXVII. 
SONNET XXVII.
 XXVIII. 
SONNET XXVIII. TO FRIENDSHIP.
 XXIX. 
SONNET XXIX. TO MISS C--- ON BEING DESIRED TO ATTEMPT WRITING A COMEDY.
 XXX. 
SONNET XXX. TO THE RIVER ARUN.
 XXXI. 
SONNET XXXI. WRITTEN ON FARM WOOD, SOUTH DOWNS, IN MAY 1784.
 XXXII. 
SONNET XXXII. TO MELANCHOLY.
 XXXIII. 
SONNET XXXIII. TO THE NAIAD OF THE ARUN.
 XXXIV. 
SONNET XXXIV. TO A FRIEND.
 XXXV. 
SONNET XXXV. TO FORTITUDE.
 XXXVI. 
SONNET XXXVI.
 XXXVII. 
SONNET XXXVII. SENT TO THE HONORABLE MRS. O'NEILL, WITH PAINTED FLOWERS.
 XXXVIII. 
SONNET XXXVIII. FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE.
 XXXIX. 
SONNET XXXIX. TO NIGHT.
 XL. 
SONNET XL. FROM THE SAME.
 XLI. 
SONNET XLI. TO TRANQUILLITY.
 XLII. 
SONNET XLII. COMPOSED DURING A WALK ON THE DOWNS, IN NOVEMBER 1787.
 XLIII. 
SONNET XLIII.
 XLIV. 
SONNET XLIV. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX.
 XLV. 
SONNET XLV. ON LEAVING A PART OF SUSSEX.
 XLVI. 
SONNET XLVI. WRITTEN AT PENSHURST, IN AUTUMN 1788.
 XLVII. 
SONNET XLVII. TO FANCY.
 XLVIII. 
SONNET XLVIII. TO MRS. ---
 XLIX. 
SONNET XLIX. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN A CHURCH-YARD, OVER THE GRAVE OF A YOUNG WOMAN OF NINETEEN.
 L. 
SONNET L. FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA.
 LI. 
SONNET LI. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE HEBRIDES.
 LII. 
SONNET LII. THE PILGRIM.
 LIII. 
SONNET LIII. THE LAPLANDER.
 LIV. 
SONNET LIV. THE SLEEPING WOODMAN.
 LV. 
SONNET LV. THE RETURN OF THE NIGHTINGALE.
 LVI. 
SONNET LVI. THE CAPTIVE ESCAPED IN THE WILDS OF AMERICA.
 LVII. 
SONNET LVII. TO DEPENDENCE.
 LVIII. 
SONNET LVIII. THE GLOW-WORM.
 LIX. 
SONNET LIX. WRITTEN SEPT. 1791, DURING A REMARKABLE THUNDER STORM, IN WHICH THE MOON WAS PERFECTLY CLEAR, WHILE THE TEMPEST GATHERED IN VARIOUS DIRECTIONS NEAR THE EARTH.
  
ODE TO DESPAIR.
  
ELEGY.
  
SONG.
  
THE ORIGIN OF FLATTERY.
  
THE PEASANT OF THE ALPS.
  
SONG.
  
THIRTY-EIGHT.
  
VERSES
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SONNET LVIII. THE GLOW-WORM.

When on some balmy-breathing night of Spring
The happy child, to whom the world is new,
Pursues the evening moth, of mealy wing,
Or from the heath-bell beats the sparkling dew;
He sees before his inexperienced eyes
The brilliant Glow-worm, like a meteor, shine
On the turf-bank;—amazed, and pleased, he cries,
“Star of the dewy grass!—I make thee mine!”—
Then, ere he sleep, collects “the moisten'd” flower,
And bids soft leaves his glittering prize enfold,
And dreams that Fairy-lamps illume his bower:
Yet with the morning shudders to behold
His lucid treasure, rayless as the dust!
—So turn the World's bright joys to cold and blank disgust.
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