Poems Consisting Of Essays, Lyric, Elegiac, &c. By Thomas Dermody. Written between the 13th and 16th Year of his Age |
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SONNET,
TO LADY CHARLOTTE RAWDON.
As to my frantic eye I pictur'd dread,Genius, with bleeding bosom, wildly bare,
Weeping, in tears of gore, on Fortune dead,
Sadly, in silent woe, I droop'd my head,
And woo'd fell Death to force the grasp of Care;
'Till thy æthereal image check'd the sigh
Thy form benign, stood, beck'ning me to rest,
Thou breath'st a halcyon-calm around my breast;
Where Hope, (pale taper in a charnel vault,)
Just glimm'ring lay,—thy promise sweet, beguil'd
My tortur'd sense, my agonizing thought,
I look'd to Thee, and smil'd!
But ah! in Pleasure's specious gulph again I fell,
Without one twig to catch! fair scenes farewell,
If, Angel-like, thou do'st not light my way,
And lead me, penitent, to day!—
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