SONNET [04] IV. To the Moon. Charlotte Smith (née Turner) 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. N22357 Smith, Charlotte Turner, 1749-1806. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems. By Charlotte Smith. The first Worcester edition, from the sixth London edition, with additions. Printed at Worcester [Mass.] by Isaiah Thomas, sold by him in Worcester, and by said Thomas and Andrews in Boston 1795 pp. 24-[]. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 04 ] IV . To the Moon . QUEEN of the silver bow ! — by thy pale beam , Alone and pensive , I delight to stray , And watch thy shadow trembling in the stream , Or mark the floating clouds that cross thy way . And while I gaze , thy mild and placid light Sheds a soft calm upon my troubled breast ; And oft I think — fair planet of the night — That in thy orb , the wretched may have rest : The suff'rers of the earth perhaps may go , Releas'd by Death — to thy benignant sphere , And the sad children of Despair and Woe Forget , in thee , their cup of sorrow here . Oh ! that I soon may reach thy world serene , Poor wearied pilgrim — in this toiling scene !

Queen of the Silver Bow ! &c. —