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ADDRESSED TO MRS. G.
OF THE PRIORY, CORNWALL.
1 WHEN the awaken'd soul receives
2 The first impression fancy gives,
3 Temper'd by soft affection's reign,
4 Sweet are the days of pleasing pain.
5 But, ah! they fly, fly never to return,
6 And leave the aching heart their transient charms to mourn.
7 What magic shall the muse employ
8 Back to recall departed joy?
9 Alas! the time returns no more,
10 Nor hope herself can e'er restore
11 Those smiling years when, with fresh roses bound,
12 She led the fairy hours their gay fantastic round.
13 Hope flies with youth, and leaves to age
14 The wintry tempest to engage.
15 The leaves are fallen, the branches torn,
16 On the wild blast behold them born
17 Far distant, while the shatter'd trunk remains
18 Cover'd with hoary frost, amidst deserted plains.
19 'Vain insects of a summer's day,'
20 The pow'r of nature seems to say,
21 'Expect not long unclouded hours;
22 Soon rushing winds and beating show'rs
23 Your pastimes end; and fortune, still at strife,
24 Disturbs with ceaseless change the dream of human life.'
25 Friendship alone remains sublime,
26 She rises o'er the wreck of time;
27 Unmix'd her purer joys we share,
28 No selfish passion rankles there;
29 Balm for the wounded heart's corroding woes,
30 Peace to the wearied spirit's final, solemn close.
31 In recollection's pensive hour,
32 When tender thoughts the past restore,
33 Then friendship reunites again:
34 The scatter'd traces which remain
35 Delights each fond remembrance still to save,
36 And plucks the envious weed from lost affection's grave.
Source edition
Hunter, Anne Home (Mrs. John), 1742-1821. Poems, by Mrs. John Hunter. London: Printed for T. Payne, Mews Gate, by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1802, pp. 13-15. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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Other works by Anne Hunter (née Home)
- A BALLAD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO MY SON AT SCHOOL, AGED 13, JUNE 11. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 15, AT CAMBRIDGE. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 23, A LIEUTENANT IN THE ARMY, THEN WITH HIS REGIMENT IN CORSICA, 1793. ()
- [BIRTHDAY ODE] TO THE SAME, AGED 26, A CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY IN PORTUGAL, 1798. ()
- CARISBROOK CASTLE, A POEM, WITH NOTES. ()
- THE DEATH SONG, WRITTEN FOR, AND ADAPTED TO, AN ORIGINAL INDIAN AIR. ()
- THE DIRGE OF AMORET. ()
- ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF WILLIAM SEWARD, ESQ. WHO DIED APRIL 24, 1799. ()
- ELEGY. ()
- EPITAPH FOR MY FATHER. ()
- FAIRY REVELS, A SONG. ()
- THE FAREWELL, A SONG. ()
- THE GENIUS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF BALAGATA, IN THE EAST INDIES, BEWAILS THE MISERIES BOUGHT UPON HIS COUNTRY. ()
- LA DOUCE CHIMERE. ()
- THE LAMENTATION OF MARY STUART, QUEEN OF SCOTS, ADAPTED TO A VERY ANCIENT SCOTTISH AIR, SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HER OWN COMPOSITION. ()
- LAURA TO PETRARCH. ()
- LAURA. ()
- LELIA; OR, THE MANIAC'S SONG. ()
- MAY DAY. ()
- A MERMAID'S SONG. ()
- NOVEMBER, 1784. ()
- ODE TO CONDUIT VALE, BLACKHEATH. ()
- ODE TO THE OLD YEAR, 1787. ()
- REMEMBRANCE, A SONG. ()
- THE ROUNDELAY. ()
- THE SONG AT MARIA'S GRAVE. IN TWO PARTS. ()
- THE SONG OF THE WANDERING LADY, FOUNDED ON A TRUE STORY. ()
- SONG. ()
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- SONG. ()
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- SONG. ()
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- SONG. ()
- SONNET, AFTER THE DEATH OF LAURA. ()
- THE SPIRIT'S SONG. ()
- TIME. ()
- TO A FRIEND ON NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- TO JAMES BARRY, ESQ. ON THE DESIGN OF HIS SERIES OF PICTURES PAINTED FOR THE SOCIETY INSTITUTED FOR THE PROMOTING ARTS AND MANUFACTURES. ()
- TO Mrs. DELAINY, UPON THE MARKS OF ROYAL BOUNTY WHICH SHE RECEIVED AT A VERY ADVANCED AGE, AFTER THE DEATH OF HER FRIEND THE DUCHESS OF PORTLAND, IN 1786. ()
- TO MY DAUGHTER, ON BEING SEPARATED FROM HER ON HER MARRIAGE ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LOVELY INFANT, WRITTEN SEVEN YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS CHATTERTON. ()
- TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
- A VOW TO FORTUNE. ()
- WILLIAM AND NANCY, A BALLAD. ()
- WINTER, A SONNET. ()