LAURA. Anne Hunter (née Home) Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 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 p. 63.

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LAURA . O Power of fancy , from thy treasur'd store Of past delights , which smile on earth no more , Give to my aching heart the hour again , When first it learnt to beat with sweet impassion'd pain . All else seems tasteless , vain , and lost to me , But those dear moments , Petrarch , pass'd with thee , When from thy eyes the subtle softness stole Into this throbbing breast , and seiz'd my captive soul . Return enchanting looks and tender sighs , Again in fancy's fairy vision rise ; Again methinks our falt'ring tongues declare A hopeless passion , born and nourish'd in despair . In sympathy we met ; but sullen fate Mix'd with its sweets the bitter of regret ; We met to love , to suffer , and to part , And bear thro' tedious life a sad divided heart .