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TO ELIZA S — —.
1 THE weary traveller tired with roaming,
2 Homeward turns his willing feet,
3 Kindest, friendliest counsel giving,
4 If a stranger he should meet.
5 Heaven speed thy journey gentle stranger,
6 Thine's a road which I have gone,
7 Think not my friendship too presuming,
8 If its dangers I make known.
9 A pleasant hill now lies before thee,
10 Mind to keep the middle way,
11 Danger in pleasing forms shall 'tice thee,
12 Lure thee from thy path to stray.
13 But a faithful guide attending,
14 Thou'lt discern each specious foe,
[Page 92]15 And her unerring glass presenting,
16 Shews they lead to lasting woe.
17 Vainly may pleasure seek to tempt thee,
18 Tho' with flowers her path be spread,
19 Thy guide can see her vot'ries hasting,
20 To the mansions of the dead.
21 Some, you'll observe intemperance leading,
22 To her bowers of cloying sweets,
23 But from behind yon ghastly figures,
24 Drag them to their fell retreats.
25 Her crowns of poppies ease may offer,
26 On down intreat thee to repose;
27 But in th' inglorious lake oblivion,
28 All her votaries she throws.
29 There too sink those led by folly,
30 And dissipation's giddy train,
31 Nor those whom vanity is leading,
32 Can her empty gifts retain.
33 As towards the summit thou'rt ascending,
34 Other foes shall thee surround,
35 Be sure to keep a steady footing,
36 It is all enchanted ground.
37 To her high lands ambition tempts thee,
38 Shews thee grandeur's envied state:
39 Believe it all a fair delusion.
40 Wretched is her followers fate.
41 Some she leads o'er seas tempestuous,
42 Sink beneath the foaming waves,
43 Others, from dreadful heights she plunges,
44 Find below untimely graves.
45 From all these foes thy guide shall save thee,
46 Pleasant may'st thou find the road,
47 Innocence thy fair attendant,
48 To bright wisdom's blest abode.
49 Prosperous be thy journey, stranger,
50 Thine's a road I well have known;
51 Nor think my friendship too presuming,
52 If its dangers I have shewn.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [91]-93. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Eliza Day
- APPEARANCE AND REALITY. ()
- AT THE SAME PLACE. ()
- ATTENDANCE UPON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. ()
- THE BIRTH OF GENIUS. ()
- THE BIRTH-DAY ORNAMENTS. ()
- CHLOE. ()
- AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- EVENING HYMN. ()
- EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone. ()
- THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY. ()
- FOR EASTER SUNDAY. ()
- FOR SUNDAY. ()
- THE GOODNESS OF GOD. ()
- HIS IMMENSITY. ()
- A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY. ()
- A HYMN IN SICKNESS. ()
- HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool. ()
- LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT. ()
- THE LAUREL. ()
- LEGEND. ()
- LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child. ()
- MERCY. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y. ()
- [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON. ()
- ODE TO HEALTH. ()
- ODE TO HOPE. ()
- OMNISCIENCE. ()
- ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD. ()
- ON FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON. ()
- ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. ()
- POWER AND PROVIDENCE. ()
- THE QUESTION. ()
- RESIGNATION. ()
- SOLILOQUY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONNET TO CELIA. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA. ()
- THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD. ()
- TO A SICK FRIEND. ()
- TO AMANDA, On her recovery from sickness. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO BELINDA. ()
- TO DELIA. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO — — — ()
- TO — — —. ()
- UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED. ()
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN. ()
- WISDOM. ()
- WIT AND JUDGMENT. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()