SONNET [16] XVI. From Petrarch. 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. 36. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 16 ] XVI . From Petrarch . YE vales and woods ! fair scenes of happier hours !

Valle che de lamenti miei se piena . Sonnetto 33. Parte secondo .

Ye feather'd people , tenants of the grove ! And you , bright stream ! befring'd with shrubs and flow'rs , Behold my grief , ye witnesses of love ! For ye beheld my infant passion rise , And saw thro' years unchang'd my faithful flame ; Now cold , in dust , the beauteous object lies , And you , ye conscious scenes , are still the same ! While busy memory still delights to dwell On all the charms theme bitter tears deplore , And with a trembling hand describes too well The angel form I shall behold no more ! To Heaven she's fled ! and nought to me remains But the pale ashes , which her urn contains .