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Dramas

Translations, and Occasional Poems. By Barbarina Lady Dacre.[i.e. Barbarina Brand] In Two Volumes
Dacre, Barbarina (1767-1854)

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XARIFA,
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ACT I.
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ACT III.
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ACT IV.
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ACT V.
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POEMS.

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SONNET

OCCASIONED BY A DREAM.

Oft when life's cares, and woes, and fears are fled,
Swept by the wing of hovering sleep away,
Fair dreams enchanting float around my head,
(Enchanting dreams, for of my sisters they),
And all the heaven of my early day
Fresh dawns upon me; and around me glows
Each sparkling eye, with youth, and hope, once gay,
Now closed for ever, or now dimm'd by woes:
My weary spirit tastes of joy again
In sweet illusion, when a creeping thrill
Of horror, boding some impending ill,
Half thought—half felt—renews the sense of pain;
Affrighted sleep spreads his swift wings for flight,
Fair dreams and sister forms quick snatching from my sight.
Feb. 1801.
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