Poetical works of the late F. Sayers to which have been prefixed the connected disquisitions on the rise and progress of English poetry, and on English metres, and also some biographic particulars of the author, supplied by W. Taylor |
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SONNET.
TO A COTTAGE.
Well pleas'd I mark thy modest, straw-crown'd roof,The luscious woodbine that o'ertwines its brow,
And yon thick rose-buds' crimsom-tinted glow—
And fancy whispers that, tho' far aloof
From all that madding crowds so fondly prize,
Within thy humble walls I'd joy to live
In deepest calm; for I could well despise
All but the bliss which tenderest love would give.
Vain dream!—that bliss, alas! is ever dead;
No more this fond heart feels its soothing powers,
With her, the angel-traitress, far it fled,
And melancholy marks my lonely hours—
Vain then the peaceful cot—fair nature's calm
On wounds like mine can pour no healing balm.
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