SONNET [54] LIV. The sleeping Woodman. Written in April, 1790. 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. 74. xix,[2],22-126,[2]p.,[5] leaves of plates: ill.; 15 cm. (12mo)

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SONNET [ 54 ] LIV. The sleeping Woodman . Written in April , 1790. YE copses wild , where April bids arise The vernal grasses , and the early flow'rs ; My soul depress'd — from human converse flies To the lone shelter of your pathless bow'rs . Lo ! — where the Woodman , with his toil oppress'd , His careless head , on bark and moss reclin'd , Lull'd by the song of birds , the murm'ring wind , Has sunk to calm , tho' momentary , rest . Ah ! would 'twere mine in Spring's green lap to find Such transient respite from the ills I bear ! Would I could taste , like this unthinking hind , A sweet forgetfulness of human care ,

A sweet forgetfulness of human care . Pope .

'Till the last sleep these weary eyes shall close , And Death receive me to his long repose .