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 on Fate & Destiny (26 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 LXIX (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman returnwho had been imprisoned at Rochfort. CLOUDS, gold and purple, o'er ...
Sonnet III: To a Nightingale (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Poor melancholy bird—-that all night long Tell'st to the Moon, thy tale of tender woe; From what sad cause can ...
Sonnet XII. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written on the Sea Shore, Oct. 1784. ON some rude fragment of the rocky shore,Where on the fractured cliff the ...
Sonnet LXVII: On Passing over a Dreary Tract (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast;While only beings as ...
Sonnet XXV. By The Same. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Just before his Death. WHY should I wish to hold in this low sphere'A frail and feverish being?' wherefore tryPoorly ...
Sonnet XXII. By The Same. To Solitude. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
OH, Solitude! to thy sequester'd valeI come to hide my sorrow and my tears,And to thy echoes tell the mournful ...
Sonnet XXVI. To The River Arun (Charlotte Smith Poems)
ON thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn,No glittering fanes, or marble domes appear,Yet shall the mournful muse thy course ...
Sonnet LXXIII. To A Querulous Acquaintance (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THOU! whom Prosperity has always ledO'er level paths, with moss and flow'rets strewn;For whom she still prepares a downy bedWith ...
Sonnet LXXXII. To The Shade Of Burns (Charlotte Smith Poems)
MUTE is thy wild harp, now, O bard sublime!Who, amid Scotia's mountain solitude,Great Nature taught to "build the lofty rhyme,"And ...
Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch (Charlotte Smith Poems)
OH! place me where the burning moonForbids the wither'd flower to blow;Or place me in the frigid zone,On mountains of ...
The Emigrants: Book I (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
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 ...
Sonnet III: To a Nightingale (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Poor melancholy bird---that all night long Tell'st to the Moon, thy tale of tender woe; From what sad cause can ...
Sonnet LXVII: On Passing over a Dreary Tract (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast; While only beings as ...