Charlotte Turner Smith
          
Elegiac sonnets. Volume 2 of 2
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CONTENTS.

SONNETS.

    LX. To an amiable Girl . . . 1

    LXI. Supposed to have been written in America . . . 2

    LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow . . . 3

    LXIII. The Gossamer . . . 4

    LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794 . . . 5

    LXV. To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic Drawings which had been made some years . . . 6

    LXVI. Written in a tempestuous Night, on the coast of Sussex . . . 7

    LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a Tempest . . . 8


    xviii

    LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Midsummer 1795 . . . 9

    LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort . . . 10

    LXX. On being cautioned against walking on an Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic . . . 11

    LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter . . . 12

    LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea . . . 13

    LXXIII. To a querulous Acquaintance . . . 14

    LXXIV. The Winter Night . . . 15

    LXXV. . . . . . 16

    LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the World . . . 17

    LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer . . . 18

    LXXVIII. Snow-drops . . . 19

    LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany . . . 20

    LXXX. To the Invisible Moon . . . 21

    LXXXI. . . . . . 22


    xix

    LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns . . . 23

    LXXXIII. The Sea View . . . 24

    LXXXIV. To the Muse . . . 25

    The Dead Beggar . . . 26

    The Female Exile . . . 29

    Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November 1792 . . . 33

    Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex . . . 38

    A descriptive Ode . . . 39

    Verses supposed to have been written in the new Forest, in early Spring . . . 46

    Song. From the French . . . 48

    Apostrophe to an Old Tree . . . 50

    The Forest Boy . . . 54

    Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend . . . 68

    Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play . . . 72


    xx

    Verses on the death of the same Lady, written in September 1794 . . . 74

    Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War . . .78

    April . . . 82

    Ode to Death . . . 87
 
 
 
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