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Elegiac sonnets, and other poems

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

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ELEGIAC SONNETS.
 LX. 
SONNET LX. TO AN AMIABLE GIRL.
 LXI. 
SONNET LXI. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN AMERICA.
 LXII. 
SONNET LXII. WRITTEN ON PASSING BY MOON-LIGHT THROUGH A VILLAGE, WHILE THE GROUND WAS COVERED WITH SNOW.
 LXIII. 
SONNET LXIII. THE GOSSAMER.
 LXIV. 
SONNET LXIV. WRITTEN AT BRISTOL IN THE SUMMER OF 1794.
 LXV. 
SONNET LXV. TO DR. PARRY OF BATH, WITH SOME BOTANIC DRAWINGS WHICH HAD BEEN MADE SOME YEARS.
 LXVI. 
SONNET LXVI. WRITTEN IN A TEMPESTUOUS NIGHT, ON THE COAST OF SUSSEX.
 LXVII. 
SONNET LXVII. ON PASSING OVER A DREARY TRACT OF COUNTRY, AND NEAR THE RUINS OF A DESERTED CHAPEL, DURING A TEMPEST.
 LXVIII. 
SONNET LXVIII. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, MIDSUMMER, 1795.
 LXIX. 
SONNET LXIX. WRITTEN AT THE SAME PLACE, ON SEEING A SEAMAN RETURN WHO HAD BEEN IMPRISONED AT ROCHFORT.
 LXX. 
SONNET LXX. ON BEING CAUTIONED AGAINST WALKING ON AN HEADLAND OVERLOOKING THE SEA, BECAUSE IT WAS FREQUENTED BY A LUNATIC.
 LXXI. 
SONNET LXXI. WRITTEN AT WEYMOUTH IN WINTER.
 LXXII. 
SONNET LXXII. TO THE MORNING STAR.
 LXXIII. 
SONNET LXXIII. TO A QUERULOUS ACQUAINTANCE.
 LXXIV. 
SONNET LXXIV. THE WINTER NIGHT.
 LXXV. 
SONNET LXXV.
 LXXVI. 
SONNET LXXVI. TO A YOUNG MAN ENTERING THE WORLD.
 LXXVII. 
SONNET LXXVII. TO THE INSECT OF THE GOSSAMER.
 LXXVIII. 
SONNET LXXVIII. SNOWDROPS.
 LXXIX. 
SONNET LXXIX. TO THE GODDESS OF BOTANY.
 LXXX. 
SONNET LXXX. TO THE INVISIBLE MOON.
 LXXXI. 
SONNET LXXXI.
 LXXXII. 
SONNET LXXXII. TO THE SHADE OF BURNS.
 LXXXIII. 
SONNET LXXXIII. THE SEA VIEW.
 LXXXIV. 
SONNET LXXXIV. TO THE MUSE.
 LXXXV. 
SONNET LXXXV.
 LXXXVI. 
SONNET LXXXVI. WRITTEN NEAR A PORT ON A DARK EVENING.
 LXXXVII. 
SONNET LXXXVII. WRITTEN IN OCTOBER.
 LXXXVIII. 
SONNET LXXXVIII. NEPENTHE.
 LXXXIX. 
SONNET LXXXIX. TO THE SUN.
 XC. 
SONNET XC. TO OBLIVION.
 XCI. 
SONNET XCI. REFLECTIONS ON SOME DRAWINGS OF PLANTS.
 XCII. 
SONNET XCII. WRITTEN AT BIGNOR PARK IN SUSSEX, IN AUGUST, 1799.
  
THE DEAD BEGGAR.
  
THE FEMALE EXILE.
  
WRITTEN FOR THE BENEFIT OF A DISTRESSED PLAYER, DETAINED AT BRIGHTHELMSTONE FOR DEBT, NOVEMBER 1792.
  
INSCRIPTION On a Stone, in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex;
  
A DESCRIPTIVE ODE,
  
VERSES
  
SONG.
  
APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD TREE.
  
THE FOREST BOY.
  
ODE TO THE POPPY.
  
WRITTEN BY THE SAME LADY ON SEEING HER TWO SONS AT PLAY.
  
VERSES, ON THE DEATH OF THE SAME LADY,
  
FRAGMENT, DESCRIPTIVE OF THE MISERIES OF WAR;
  
APRIL.
  
ODE TO DEATH.
  
STANZAS
  
TO THE WINDS.
  
TO VESPER.
  
LYDIA.

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SONNET LXXI. WRITTEN AT WEYMOUTH IN WINTER.

The chill waves whiten in the sharp North-east;
Cold, cold the night-blast comes, with sullen sound;
And black and gloomy, like my cheerless breast,
Frowns the dark pier and lonely sea-view round.
Yet a few months—and on the peopled strand
Pleasure shall all her varied forms display;
Nymphs lightly tread the bright reflecting sand,
And proud sails whiten all the summer bay:
Then, for these winds that whistle keen and bleak,
Music's delightful melodies shall float
O'er the blue waters; but 'tis mine to seek
Rather, some unfrequented shade, remote
From sights and sounds of gaiety—I mourn
All that gave me delight—Ah! never to return!
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