The Poetical Works of the late Mrs Mary Robinson including many pieces never before published. In Three Volumes |
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TO MRS. ROBINSON, ON HER VISITING BATH IN ILL HEALTH.
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TO MRS. ROBINSON, ON HER VISITING BATH IN ILL HEALTH.
BY JAMES BOADEN, Esq.
Maria from the busy circle flies,To breathe the purer bliss of brighter skies,
Forsakes the scenes of her expanding fame,
To renovate the anguish of her frame;
Mentally perfect, her enlighten'd mind,
Superior to disease, springs unconfin'd;
Ranges the regions of the Muse's reign,
Exempt from our inheritance of pain;
And, while keen pangs oppress her lovely face,
Wings the pure Ether of poetic space;
Floats in the fragrance of the rubied rose,
And shuts its bosom up in rich repose!
So may these lines possess the placid pow'r,
To soothe thy suff'rings in some torturing hour.
June, 1791.
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