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TO THE NIGHTINGALE.
1 WHY from these shades, sweet bird of eve,
2 Art thou to other regions wildly fled?
3 Thy pensive song would oft my cares relieve,
4 Thy melancholy softness oft would shed
5 Peace on my weary soul: return again,
6 Return, and, sadly sweet, in melting notes complain.
7 At the still hour I'll come alone,
8 And listen to thy love-lorn plaintive lay;
9 Or when the moon beams o'er yon mossy stone,
10 I'll watch thy restless wing from spray to spray,
11 And when the swelling cadence slow shall rise,
12 I'll join the harmony with low and murm'ring sighs.
13 Oh, simple bird! where art thou flown?
14 What distant woodland now receives thy nest?
15 What distant echo answers to thy moan,
16 What distant thorn supports thy aching breast?
17 Whoe'er can feel thy misery like me,
18 Or pay thee for thy song with such sad sympathy?
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. 35-36. (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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Other works by Anne Hunter (née Home)
- ADDRESSED TO MRS. G. OF THE PRIORY, CORNWALL. ()
- 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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- 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. ()
- A VOW TO FORTUNE. ()
- WILLIAM AND NANCY, A BALLAD. ()
- WINTER, A SONNET. ()