The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town ofBrighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792.Slow in ...
Charlotte Smith Poems (131 Poems)
The Emigrants: Book II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
The Forest Boy (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THE trees have now hid at the edge of the hurstThe spot where the ruins decayOf the cottage, where Will ...
The Origin Of Flattery (Charlotte Smith Poems)
WHEN Jove, in anger to the sons of the earth,Bid artful Vulcan give Pandora birth,And sent the fatal gift which ...
Occasional Address (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written for the benefit of a distressed Player, detainedat Brighthelmstone for Debt, November 1792. WHEN in a thousand swarms, the ...
A Descriptive Ode (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Supposed to have been written under the Ruins ofRufus's Castle, among the remains of the ancientChurch on the Isle of ...
Elegy (Charlotte Smith Poems)
DARK gathering clouds involve the threatening skies,The sea heaves conscious of the impending gloom,Deep, hollow murmurs from the cliffs arise;They ...
April (Charlotte Smith Poems)
GREEN o'er the copses spring's soft hues are spreading,High wave the reeds in the transparent floods,The oak its sear and ...
The Swallow (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THE gorse is yellow on the heath, The banks with speedwell flowers are gay, The oaks are budding; and beneath, ...
Fragment (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Descriptive of the miseries of War; from a Poemcalled "The Emigrants," printed in 1793. TO a wild mountain, whose bare ...
The Peasant Of The Alps (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE NOVEL OF CELESTINA. WHERE cliffs arise by winter crown'd,And through dark groves of pine around,Down the deep chasms ...
Thirty-Eight (Charlotte Smith Poems)
ADDRESSED TO MRS. H------Y. IN early youth's unclouded scene,The brilliant morning of eighteen,With health and sprightly joy elateWe gazed on ...
Apostrophe (Charlotte Smith Poems)
TO AN OLD TREE. WHERE thy broad branches brave the bitter North,Like rugged, indigent, unheeded, worth,Lo! Vegetation's guardian hands embossEach ...
The Female Exile (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written at Brighthelmstone in Nov. 1792. NOVEMBER'S chill blast on the rough beach is howling,The surge breaks afar, and then ...
Ode To The Poppy (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written by a deceased friend.NOT for the promise of the labour'd field,Not for the good the yellow harvests yield,I bend ...
Ode To Despair (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE. THOU spectre of terrific mien!Lord of the hopeless heart and hollow eye,In whose fierce train ...
Verses IV (Charlotte Smith Poems)
On the Death of the same Lady, written in Sept. 1794. LIKE a poor ghost the night I seek;Its hollow ...
Verses, On The Death Of The Same Lady (Charlotte Smith Poems)
LIKE a poor ghost the night I seek;ts hollow winds repeat my sighs;The cold dews mingle on my cheekWith tears ...
Verses I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
INTENDED TO HAVE BEEN PREFIXED TO THE NOVELOF EMMELINE, BUT THEN SUPPRESSED. O'ERWHELM'D with sorrow, and sustaining long"The proud man's ...
The Dead Beggar (Charlotte Smith Poems)
AN ELEGY. Addressed to a Lady, who was affected at seeing theFuneral of a nameless Pauper, buried at the ex-pense ...
Ode To Death (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FRIEND of the wretched! wherefore should the eyeOf blank Despair, whence tears have ceased to flow,Be turn'd from thee?--Ah! wherefore ...
Verses III (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written by the same lady on seeing her two sonsat play. SWEET age of bless'd delusion! blooming boys,Ah! revel long ...
The Bee’s Winter Retreat (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Go, while the summer suns are bright,Take at large thy wandering flight,Go, and load thy tiny feetWith every rich and ...
Song I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE FRENCH OF CARDINAL BERNIS. I. FRUIT of Aurora's tears, fair rose,On whose soft leaves fond zephyrs play,Oh! queen ...
Verses II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Supposed to have been written in the New Forest,in early Spring. AS in the woods, where leathery Lichen weavesIts wint'ry ...
Song III (Charlotte Smith Poems)
FROM THE FRENCH. I. "AH! say," the fair Louisa cried,"Say where the abode of Love is found?"Pervading nature, I replied,His ...
Sonnet I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
oTHE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours, Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread,And still with ...
Sonnet LIX. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable thunderstorm, in which the moon was perfectly clear, whilethe tempest gathered in various directions ...
Sonnet II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
oWritten at the close of Spring. THE garlands fade that Spring so lately wove, Each simple flower, which she ...
Sonnet LVI. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THE CAPTIVE ESCAPEDIn the wilds of America. ADDRESSED TO THE HON. MRS O'NEILL. IF, by his torturing, savage foes untraced,The ...