SONNET. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND, NEAR LICHFIELD. 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. 44.

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SONNET . WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND , NEAR LICHFIELD . The Evening shines in May's luxuriant pride , And all the sunny hills at distance glow , And all the brooks that thro' the Valley flow , Seem liquid gold . — O ! had my fate denied Leisure , and power to taste the sweets , that glide Thro' kindling Souls , as the soft Seasons go On their still varying progress , for the woe My heart has felt , what balm had been supplied ? — But where great NATURE smiles , as here she smiles , 'Mid verdant vales , and gently-swelling hills , And glassy lakes , and mazy , murmuring rills , And narrow wood-wild lanes , her spell beguiles Th' impatient sighs of grief , and reconciles Poetic minds to Life , with all her ills .