PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY. William Lisle Bowles 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. Bowles, William Lisle, 1762-1850. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan. Edinburgh James Nichol, 9 North Bank Street... 1855 p. 29.

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PICTURE OF A YOUNG LADY . When I was sitting , sad , and all alone , Remembering youth and love for ever fled , And many friends now resting with the dead , While the still summer's light departing shone , Like many sweet and silent summers gone ; Thou camest , as a vision , with a mien And smile like those I once on earth had seen , And with a voice of that remembered tone Which I in other days , long since , had heard : Like Peace approaching , when distempers fret Most the tired spirit , thy fair form appeared ; And till I die , I never shall forget , — For at thy footstep light , the gloom was cheered , — Thy look and voice , oh ! gentle Margaret .