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MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y.
1 SCENES long belov'd! for ever dear!
2 If aught of music in my tongue,
3 Your beauties thro' the varied year,
4 Have tun'd my sweetest song.
5 When infant spring brought budding flowers,
6 And summer sat in perfum'd bowers,
7 In autumn's changing face,
8 The snows that crown'd yon mountain's brow,
9 And storms that stirr'd the wave below,
10 Gave but sublimer grace.
11 Here oft my harmless childhood play'd,
12 Traced the bright insect on its wing;
13 Thro' these wild scenes delighted stray'd,
14 With innocence and spring.
15 My youthful heart would oft employ,
16 Bright hope to dress my future joy,
17 As here it sported round;
18 Smiled with me in my walks along,
19 Cheer'd me in nature's artless song,
20 And in yon cot was found.
21 The stranger's home! the traveller's rest
22 Where Want could never long complain,
23 The tale there melted Pity's breast,
24 The rich had heard in vain.
25 Ah Spring! that nature calls to live,
26 Could'st thou her faded form revive,
27 Who could for misery feel,
28 Who rich alone in bounty's power,
29 Would spread around her little store,
30 And share her simple meal.
31 There oft the infant brood I brought,
32 Rescued from savage plunderer's hand,
33 Till plumed, by native instinct taught,
34 They join'd the tuneful band.
[Page 114]35 Farewell! thou hospitable dome!
36 My frequent and my happiest home,
37 No more in thee to dwell;
38 No more this fragrant air to breathe,
39 Or sleep this friendly roof beneath,
40 Ah! can I say — Farewell!
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [112]-114. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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- 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. ()
- [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 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 ()