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ODE TO HOPE.
1 BRIGHT queen of care beguiling smiles
2 Supreme in airy state;
3 To draw the sting from fortune's wiles,
4 And smooth the brow of fate.
5 Thine is the music of the spring,
6 Thy breath can freshest verdure bring,
7 To dress the cheerless plain;
8 When the hoarse tempest lawless roves,
9 And Autumn yields her golden groves,
10 To Winter's dreary reign.
11 Thou canst the massy gates unbar
12 That close on happy days,
13 The tides of woe when nations war,
14 Thy steady anchor stays;
15 Far as the beam of fancy flies,
16 Thy fair ideal kingdoms rise,
17 And vernal garlands bloom;
18 Nor breathes a wretch so lost to thee,
19 Who thro' thy power no gleam can see,
20 That dawns on joy to come.
21 Fortune her splendid sons displays,
22 An envied glittering train,
23 But ah! the bliss that crowns their days
24 Must still with thee remain.
25 Each take the sphere where each must move,
26 Nor sink below, nor rise above,
27 Thy soft illusive voice;
28 The varied wish of all who live,
29 Thy specious promises can give,
30 Unbounded as their choice.
31 In thee youth's golden dreams acquired
32 A fair but faithless friend,
33 By reason's sober hand attired,
34 My future steps attend.
35 Those gay delusions ever fled,
36 Which unsubstantial forms had fed,
37 Thy pallid sister shared;
38 Her trembling hand she'd oft employ,
39 To scatter shades upon the joy,
40 Which disappointment spared.
41 Come soothing power! but more serene,
42 Thy temper'd light display;
43 I yield to fancy's giddy queen,
44 Thy meteor's dazzling ray.
[Page 98]45 No more my ardent wishes rise
46 To solid good below the skies,
47 Or court delusive power;
48 Yet cheer my paths if virtue treads,
49 Shine thro' the tear that sorrow sheds,
50 And sooth my dying hour.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [96]-98. [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. ()
- 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 DELIA. ()
- 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 ()