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Poems on various subjects

By R. Anderson

Anderson, R. (1770-1833)

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I.

SONNET I. TO J. C. CURWEN, ESQ. M. P.

II.

SONNET II. TO THE LARK.

III.

SONNET III. TO AN AGED PARENT, ON SEEING HIM SHED TEARS.

IV.

SONNET IV. WRITTEN IN WINTER.

V.

SONNET V. TO A ROSE IN ELIZA'S BOSOM.

VI.

SONNET VI. TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH SOME SONGS IN MANUSCRIPT.

VII.

SONNET VII. EVENING.

VIII.

SONNET VIII. TO JOHN HORNE TOOKE, ESQ.

IX.

SONNET IX. TO THE RIVER EDEN.

X.

SONNET X. TO A REDBREAST, WHICH VISITED THE AUTHOR DAILY FOR SOME MONTHS.

XI.

SONNET XI. TO THE SAME.

XII.

SONNET XII. TO A YOUNG LADY LABOURING UNDER A SEVERE ILLNESS.

XIII.

SONNET XIII. TO A POOR BOY.

XIV.

SONNET XIV. TO ELIZA.

XV.

SONNET XV. TO A PRETENDED FRIEND.

XVI.

SONNET XVI. NIGHT.

XVII.

SONNET XVII. TO THE RIVER CALDEW.

XVIII.

SONNET XVIII. TO MR. ROBERT CARLILE.

XIX.

SONNET XIX. TO ELIZA.

XX.

SONNET XX. WRITTEN IN SPRING.

XXI.

SONNET XXI. TO AN UNFORTUNATE FEMALE.

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SONNET XII. TO A YOUNG LADY LABOURING UNDER A SEVERE ILLNESS.

Emblem of Innocence, the Snowdrop meek,
Around in early spring its fragrance pours;
The firstling fair bends from the wild winds bleak,
Recov'ring with the genial noon-tide hours.
So, child of Virtue! didst thou pour thy song,
By Nature taught, in Solitude's lone grove,
Breathing sweet lays of innocence and love,
Thy “wild notes” charming oft the list'ning throng,
Till pale Disease, to whom e'en kings must bend,
Stole from thy cheek Health's fairest blushing rose:
Yet grieve not, since that Pow'r who marks thy woes
His sorrow-soothing balm to thee may lend,
Bidding those virtues yet a while to bloom,
That, by Religion led, can triumph o'er the tomb.