Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems, Volume 1, The Ninth Edition/Sonnet XLV

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SONNET XLV.


ON LEAVING A PART OF SUSSEX.

FAREWEL, Aruna!—on whose varied shore
    My early vows were paid to Nature's shrine,
    When thoughtless joy, and infant hope were mine,
And whose lorn stream has heard me since deplore
    Too many sorrows! Sighing I resign
Thy solitary beauties—and no more
    Or on thy rocks, or in thy woods recline,
Or on the heath, by moonlight lingering, pore
    On air-drawn phantoms—While in Fancy's ear,
As in the evening wind thy murmurs swell,
    The Enthusiast of the Lyre who wander'd here,
Seems yet to strike his visionary shell,
    Of power to call forth Pity's tenderest tear,
Or wake wild Phrenzy—from her hideous cell!