SONNET [40] XL. 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. 60. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 40 ] XL. From the same . FAR on the sands , the low , retiring tide , In distant murmurs hardly seems to flow , And o'er the world of waters , blue and wide , The sighing summer wind forgets to blow . As sinks the daystar in the rosy West , The silent wave , with rich reflection glows ; Alas ! Can tranquil Nature give me rest , Or scenes of beauty , soothe me to repose ? Can the soft lustre of the sleeping main , Yon radiant Heaven , or all Creation's charms , ' Erase the written troubles of the brain , ' Which Memory tortures , and which Guilt alarms ? Or bid a bosom transient quiet prove , That bleeds with vain remorse , and unextinguish'd love !