SONNET TO THE STRAWBERRY. Helen Maria Williams 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. Williams, Helen Maria, 1759-1827. Poems on various subjects: with introductory remarks on the present state of science and literature in France. London G. and W. B. Whittaker 1823 p. 214.

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SONNET TO THE STRAWBERRY . THE Strawberry blooms upon its lowly bed , Plant of my native soil ! — the Lime may fling More potent fragrance on the zephyr's wing , The milky Cocoa richer juices shed , The white Guava lovelier blossoms spread — But not , like thee , to fond remembrance bring The vanished hours of life's enchanting spring ; Short calendar of joys for ever fled ! Thou bid'st the scenes of childhood rise to view , The wild wood-path which fancy loves to trace ; Where , veil'd in leaves , thy fruit of rosy hue Lurk'd on its pliant stem with modest grace . But ah ! when thought would later years renew , Alas , successive sorrows crowd the space !