Elegiac sonnets. Volume 1 of 2  contents   |   previous   |   next SONNET XXIII. BY THE SAME. TO THE NORTH STAR. TO thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes, [Note:] SONNET XXIII. Line 1. 'The greater Bear, favourite of all the constellations; for when I left you of an evening it used to shine opposite your window,' Sorrows of Werter. Volume Second.          Fair, fav'rite planet! which in happier days Saw my young hopes, ah! faithless hopes! arise;          And on my passion shed propitious rays! Now nightly wandering mild the tempest drear          That howl the woods, and rocky steeps among, I love to see thy sudden light appear          Thro' the swift clouds driv'n by the wind along: Or in the turbid water, rude and dark,          O'er whose wild stream the gust of Winter raves, Thy trembling light with pleasure still I mark,          Gleam in faint radiance on the foaming waves! So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly, Then fade: and leave me, to despair and die!  contents   |   previous   |   next		HOME INTRODUCTION