SONNET [36] XXXVI. 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. 56-[]. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 36 ] XXXVI. SHOULD the lone Wand'rer , fainting on his way , Rest for a moment of the sultry hours , And tho' his path thro' thorns and roughness lay , Pluck the wild rose , or wood bine's gadding flow'rs ; Weaving gay wreaths , beneath some shelt'ring tree , The sense of sorrow , he awhile may lose ; So have I sought thy flow'rs , fair Poesy ! So charm'd my way , with Friendship and the Muse . But darker now grows Life's unhappy day , Dark , with new clouds of evil yet to come , Her pencil sickening Fancy throws away , And weary Hope reclines upon the tomb ; And points my wishes to that tranquil shore , Where the pale spectre Care , pursues no more .

Her pencil sickening fancy throws away And weary hope reclines upon the tomb .