SONNET [39] XXXIX. To Night. From the same. 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. 59. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 39 ] XXXIX . To Night . From the same . I LOVE thee , mournful , sobersuited night , When the faint moon , yet ling'ring in her wane , And veil'd in clouds , with pale uncertain light Hangs o'er the waters of the restless main . In deep depression sunk , th' enfeebled mind Will to the deaf , cold elements complain , And tell th' embosom'd grief , however vain , To sullen surges and the viewless wind . Tho' no repose on thy dark breast I find , I still enjoy thee — cheerless as thou art ; For in thy quiet gloom , th' exhausted heart Is calm , tho' wretched ; hopeless , yet resign'd . While , to the winds and waves its sorrows giv'n , May reach — tho' lost on earth — the ear of Heav'n !