Sonnet LXXVII. To The Insect Of The Gossamer (Charlotte Smith Poems)
SMALL, viewless aeronaut, that by the lineOf Gossamer suspended, in mid airFloat'st on a sun beam--Living atom, whereEnds thy breeze-guided ...
SMALL, viewless aeronaut, that by the lineOf Gossamer suspended, in mid airFloat'st on a sun beam--Living atom, whereEnds thy breeze-guided ...
DARK and conceal'd art thou, soft Evening's queen, And Melancholy's votaries that delightTo watch thee, gliding through the blue serene,Now ...
QUEEN of the silver bow!--by thy pale beam,Alone and pensive, I delight to stray,And watch thy shadow trembling in the ...
Queen of the silver bow, by thy pale beamAlone and pensive I delight to stray,And watch thy shadow trembling in ...
THOU! whom Prosperity has always ledO'er level paths, with moss and flow'rets strewn;For whom she still prepares a downy bedWith ...
NO more my wearied soul attempts to strayFrom sad reality and vain regret,Nor courts enchanting fiction to allaySorrows that sense ...
THE partial Muse, has from my earliest hours, Smil'd on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread, And still with ...
Poor melancholy bird---that all night long Tell'st to the Moon, thy tale of tender woe; From what sad cause can ...
Swift fleet the billowy clouds along the sky, Earth seems to shudder at the storm aghast; While only beings as ...
Sweet poet of the woods---a long adieu! Farewel, soft minstrel of the early year! Ah! 'twill be long ere thou ...
Thee, Queen of Shadows! -- shall I still invoke, Still love the scenes thy sportive pencil drew, When on mine ...
Scene, on the Cliffs to the Eastward of the Town of Brighthelmstone in Sussex. Time, a Morning in November, 1792. ...
Scene, on an Eminence on one of those Downs, which afford to the South a view of the Sea; to ...
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