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

by Charlotte Smith

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 15^th. 1797 by Cadell and Davies Strand

ELEGIAC SONNETS,

AND

OTHER POEMS,

By CHARLOTTE SMITH.

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VOL. II.

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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.

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

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CONTENTS. SONNETS.
		Page
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