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WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER,
AT SUN-SET
1 GRATEFUL to me this calm retreat,
2 By fond remembrance dear;
3 With joy I hail my rural seat,
4 For peace and love were here.
5 From scenes more chang'd, as these I trace,
6 To memory's records true:
7 Reflection throws a softer grace,
8 O'er every rising view.
9 No more befriended by thy shade,
10 Thou fast declining oak,
11 Our simple banquet shall be made,
12 Or pass our harmless joke.
13 Ye rocks in antic forms ye rose,
14 And flowery garlands wore;
15 But straying by your fringed brows,
16 I meet my friends no more.
17 Nor yon fantastic thorn beneath,
18 Their mossy seat I share;
19 Or tread with them the velvet heath,
20 And gather flowerets there.
21 No more, regretted friends, to you,
22 The varied moss I bring;
23 Or craneberry, or berry blue,
24 From out the purple ling.
25 As yonder western heights between,
26 Deep floods of waters glide,
27 Rich autumn's painted skies are seen,
28 Reflected on their tide.
29 Nor charms alas! delight their eyes,
30 This setting sun reveals;
31 Tho' clear wild Cambria's mountains rise,
32 And Mona's magic hills.
33 Nor mirthful now they hear me say,
34 I trod that fairy ground,
[Page 101]35 And there with youthful elves so gay,
36 Had danced the frolic round.
37 Now silvering Cloghow's sable vest,
38 The full orb'd moon appears,
39 And on each floweret's tender breast,
40 Hang sympathetic tears.
41 Declining autumn yields her sheaves,
42 Ye fading scenes farewell!
43 I would return, with flowers and leaves
44 A while with you to dwell.
45 As winter would each charm deform,
46 Thou overhanging rock;
47 Oh! from the ravage of the storm
48 Defend my favorite oak.
49 Tho' cares perhaps, and grief I seek,
50 Bid peace and you adieu;
51 What shakes the strong, may spare the weak
52 And I revisit you.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [99]-101. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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- 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 ELIZA S — —. ()
- 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. ()