SONNET [43] XLIII. 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. 63. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 43 ] XLIII . THE unhappy exile , whom his fates confine To the bleak coast of some unfriendly isle , Cold , barren , desert , where no harvests smile , But thirst and hunger on the rocks repine ; When , from some promontory's fearful brow , Sun after sun he hopeless sees decline In the broad shipless sea — perhaps may know Such heartless pain , such blank despair as mine ; And , if a flatt'ring cloud appears to show The fancied semblance of a distant sail , Then melts away — anew his spirits fail , While the lost hope but aggravates his woe ! Ah ! so for me delusive Fancy toils , Then , from contrasted truth — my feeble soul recoils .