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 Flowers (36 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 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 ...
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, ...
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 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 ...
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 II (Charlotte Smith Poems)
oWritten at the close of Spring. THE garlands fade that Spring so lately wove, Each simple flower, which she ...
To the Snowdrop (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Like pendent flakes of vegetating snow, The early herald of the infant year,Ere yet the adventurous crocus dares to blow,Beneath ...
Sonnet XXXI. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, May 1784. SPRING'S dewy hand on this fair summit weavesThe downy grass, with tufts ...
Sonnet XLII: Composed During a Walk (Charlotte Smith Poems)
The dark and pillowy cloud, the sallow trees, Seem o'er the ruins of the year to mourn;And, cold and ...
Sonnet LIV. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
THE SLEEPING WOODMAN. Written in April, 1790. YE copses wild, where April bids ariseThe vernal grasses, and the early flowers;My ...
Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Haley, (Charlotte Smith Poems)
On receiving some elegant lines from him. FOR me the Muse a simple band design'dOf 'idle' flowers that bloom the ...
Sonnet LXV. To Dr. Parry Of Bath (Charlotte Smith Poems)
With some botanic drawings which had been madesome years. IN happier hours, ere yet so keenly blewAdversity's cold blight, and ...
Sonnet XXXVII. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
SENT TO THE HON. MRS. O'NEILL, WITHPAINTED FLOWERS. The poet's fancy takes from Flora's realmHer buds and leaves to dress ...
Sonnet VI. To Hope (Charlotte Smith Poems)
OH, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes.How shall I lure thee to my haunts forlorn?For me wilt thou renew ...
Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch (Charlotte Smith Poems)
YE vales and woods! fair scenes of happier hours!Ye feather'd people, tenants of the grove!And you, bright stream! befringed with ...
Sonnet LVIII. The Glow-Worm (Charlotte Smith Poems)
WHEN on some balmy-breathing night of SpringThe happy child, to whom the world is new,Pursues the evening moth, of mealy ...
Sonnet XV. From Petrarch (Charlotte Smith Poems)
WHERE the green leaves exclude the summer beam,And softly bend as balmy breezes blow,And where, with liquid lapse, the lucid ...
Sonnet XXXVI. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
SHOULD the lone wanderer, fainting on his way,Rest for a moment of the sultry hours,And though his path through thorns ...
Sonnet LXXXI. (Charlotte Smith Poems)
HE may be envied, who with tranquil breastCan wander in the wild and woodland scene,When summer's glowing hands have newly ...
Sonnet LX. To An Amiable Girl (Charlotte Smith Poems)
MIRANDA! mark where shrinking from the gale,Its silken leaves yet moist with early dew,That fair faint flower, the Lily of ...