SONNET [10] X. To Mrs. G***. 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 p. 30. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 10 ] X. To Mrs. G*** . AH ! Why will Memory with officious care The long lost visions of my days renew ! Why paint the vernal landscape green and fair , When life's gay dawn was opening to my view ! Ah ! Wherefore bring those moments of delight , When with my Anna , on the southern shore , I thought the future as the present bright ! Ye dear delusions ! — ye return no more ! Alas ! How diff'rent does the truth appear , From the warm picture youth's rash hand pourtrays ! How fades the scene , as we approach it near , And pain and sorrow strike — how many ways ! Yet of that tender heart , ah ! still retain A share for me — and I will not complain !