SONNET. Anna Seward 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. T96723 Seward, Anna, 1742-1809. Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems. London Printed for G. Sael, No. 192, Strand 1796 p. 43.

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SONNET . INGRATITUDE , — how deadly is thy smart , Proceeding from the Form we fondly love ! How light , compar'd , all other sorrows prove ! Thou shed'st a night of woe , from whence depart The gentle beams of patience , that the heart 'Mid lesser ills illume . — Thy Victims rove Unquiet as the Ghost that haunts the grove Where MURDER spilt the life-blood . — O ! thy dart Kills more than life , e'en all that makes it dear ; Till we the " sensible of pain " wou'd change For Phrenzy , that defies the bitter tear , Or wish , in kindred callousness , to range Where moon-ey'd IDIOCY , with fallen lip , Drags the loose knee , and intermitting step .