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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2, The Second Edition

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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2 (1800)
by Charlotte Smith
Title Page, Prefaces and Contents

second edition

3249258Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 2 — Title Page, Prefaces and Contents1800Charlotte Smith

This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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Oh! Time has Changed me since you saw me last,
And heavy Hours with Time's deforming Hand,
Have written strange Defeatures in my Face.



Published May 15th. 1797 by Cadell and Davies Strand



ELEGIAC SONNETS,


AND


OTHER POEMS,


By CHARLOTTE SMITH.




VOL. II.




SECOND EDITION.


Non t' appressar ove sia riso e canto
Canzone mio, nò, ma pianto:
Non fa per te di star con gente allegra
Vedova sconsolata, in vesta nigra.
Petrarcha.




LONDON:
PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUNIOR, AND W. DAVIES,
IN THE STRAND; BY R. NOBLE, SHIRE-LANE.



1800

CONTENTS.




SONNETS.

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LX. To an amiable Girl 1
LXI. Supposed to have been written in America 2
LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow 3
LXIII. The Gossamer 4
LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794 5
LXV. To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic Drawings which had been made some years 6
LXVI. Written in a tempestuous Night, on the coast of Sussex 7
LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted Chapel, during a Tempest 8
LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Midsummer 1795 9
LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort 10
LXX. On being cautioned against walking on an Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic 11
LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter 12
LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea 13
LXXIII. To a querulous Acquaintance 14
LXXIV. The Winter Night 15
LXXV. .... 16
LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the World 17
LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer 18
LXXVIII. Snow-drops 19
LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany 20
LXXX. To the Invisible Moon 21
LXXXI. .... 22
LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns 23
LXXXIII. The Sea View 24
LXXXIV. To the Muse 25
LXXXV. .... 26
LXXXVI. Written near a Port on a dark Evening 27
LXXXVII. Written in October 28
LXXXVIII.  Nepenthe 29
LXXXIX. To the Sun 30
XC. To Oblivion 31
LXCI. Reflections on some Drawings of Plants 32
XCII. Written at Bignor Park in Sussex, in August, 1799 33
The Dead Beggar 34
The Female Exile 37
Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstonefor debt, November 1792 41
Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex 46
A descriptive Ode 47
Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest, in early Spring 54
Song. From the French 56
Apostrophe to an Old Tree 58
The Forest Boy 62
Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend 76
Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play 80
Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in September 1794 82
Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War 86
April 90
Ode to Death 95
Stanzas from the Novel of the Young Philosopher 98
To the Winds 100
To Vesper 104
Lydia 106