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TO LAURA.
1 CEASE, Laura, cease, suspect no more
2 This careless heart has learnt to love,
3 Because on yonder lonely shore
4 I still at pensive evening rove;
5 Because of Henry's worth I speak
6 With eager warmth and sparkling eye;
7 Because his favourite haunts I seek,
8 And still o'erjoyed to meet him fly: ....
9 But, Laura, should my faltering tongue
10 Refuse to speak in Henry's praise,
11 My trembling voice deny the song
12 When Henry claims his favourite lays;
13 When Henry comes, should I neglect
14 With smiles the welcome youth to seek,
15 But meet him full of cold respect,
16 While conscious blushes paint my cheek;
17 Should I, when Ella shares his praise,
18 Heave deeply-drawn but smothered sighs,
19 And, when on me he deigns to gaze,
20 Fix on the earth my conscious eyes; ....
21 Then, I'll no more thy charge deny,
22 No more thy tender fears reprove:
23 Then, Laura, heave compassion's sigh,
24 For mine will be the sigh of love.
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Author: Amelia Opie (née Alderson)
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ballad metre; address
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Opie, Amelia Alderson, 1769-1853. The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems. By Mrs. Opie. 2d. ed. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-row, 1808, pp. [101]-103. (Page images digitized by Library of Congress Research Institute.)
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Other works by Amelia Opie (née Alderson)
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- JULIA, OR THE CONVENT OF ST. CLAIRE. ()
- LINES ON HEARING, THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, THAT CONSTANTINOPLE WAS SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTHQUAKE; ()
- LINES ON THE OPENING OF A SPRING CAMPAIGN. ()
- LINES ON THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE AT PARIS, ()
- LINES WRITTEN IN 1799. ()
- LOVE ELEGY, TO HENRY. ()
- LOVE ELEGY, TO LAURA. ()
- THE LUCAYAN'S SONG. ()
- THE MAD WANDERER, A BALLAD. ()
- THE MOON AND THE COMET; A FABLE. ()
- ODE TO BORROWDALE IN CUMBERLAND. ()
- THE ORIGIN OF THE SAIL. ()
- REMEMBRANCE. ()
- SECRET LOVE. ()
- SONG ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- [SONG.] ()
- [SONG.] ()
- [SONG.] ()
- [SONG.] ()
- SONNET ON THE APPROACH OF AUTUMN. ()
- STANZAS TO CYNTHIO. ()
- TO A MANIAC. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO HENRY. ()
- TO HENRY. ()
- TO HENRY. ()
- TO HENRY. ()
- TO LORENZO. ()
- TO LOTHARIO. ()
- THE WARRIOR'S RETURN. ()