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TO DELIA.
1 FADE thy leaves thou beauteous rose,
2 In those sweet scenes which thee disclose?
3 And droops thy head thou lily fair,
4 Declining in the balmy air?
5 Then take your beauty's transient power,
6 Ye pageants of a summer's hour:
7 And if there be yet aught more frail,
8 Give it to the passing gale.
9 Can brilliant gems, can glittering ore,
10 My Delia's health or peace restore?
11 Thy treasures back, oh earth! receive,
12 Or blindly still let fortune give.
13 How weak the pride of grandeur's sway!
14 Since all are born of equal clay;
[Page 82]15 Vainly alike we place our trust,
16 In noble or in servile dust.
17 Think not my Delia beauty's charm,
18 Could guard thy growing years from harm,
19 Or teach misfortune's pensive brow,
20 With conscious dignity to glow.
21 Be mental worth my Delia's care,
22 Unfading charm! divinely fair!
23 Oh may its spell with potent ray,
24 Thro' youth and age direct thy way.
25 And take, oh take! th' instructive page,
26 Which wisdom gives for every age;
27 So shall thy richly polish'd mind,
28 Collect its treasures unconfin'd.
29 My Delia! see for noble blood,
30 Thy words be gentle, actions good:
31 Let all thy thoughts exalted be,
32 And virtue thy nobility.
33 Then at devotion's hallow'd shrine,
34 Give every grace a seal divine;
35 For prayers and deeds united rise,
36 To Heaven the richest sacrifice.
37 If prosperous scenes shall thee surround,
38 These be thy valued treasures found;
39 While fair humility shall reign,
40 A guardian o'er the heavenly train.
41 But, if thy tide of joys run low,
42 And friends with happier day should go,
43 Still mistress o'er thyself be seen,
44 And let thy virtues hail thee queen!
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [81]-83. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Eliza Day
- 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 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. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()