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SONNET.
FOR THE ROOT-HOUSE AT WREST.
1 STRANGER, or guest, whome'er this hallow'd grove
2 Shall chance receive, where sweet contentment dwells,
3 Bring here no heart that with ambition swells,
4 With avarice pines, or burns with lawless love:
5 Vice-tainted souls will all in vain remove
6 To sylvan shades, and hermits' peaceful cells,
7 In vain will seek retirement's lenient spells,
8 Or hope that bliss, which only good men prove:
9 If heaven-born truth, and sacred virtue's lore,
10 Which chear, adorn, and dignify the mind,
11 Are constant inmates of thy honest breast,
12 If, unrepining at thy neighbour's store,
13 Thou count'st as thine the good of all mankind,
14 Then welcome share the friendly groves of Wrest.
About this text
Author: Thomas Edwards
Themes:
gardens
Genres:
sonnet; Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet
References:
DMI 32623
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Source edition
Pearch, G. A collection of poems in four volumes. By several hands. Vol. IV. [The second edition]. London: printed for G. Pearch, 1770, p. 49. 4v. ; 8⁰. (ESTC T116245; DMI 1137; OTA K093079.004) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 o.791].)
Editorial principles
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Other works by Thomas Edwards
- SONNET I. ()
- SONNET II. ()
- SONNET III. To F. K. Esq ()
- SONNET IV. ()
- SONNET V. On a FAMILY-PICTURE. ()
- SONNET VI. ()
- SONNET VII. ()
- SONNET VIII. On the CANTOS of SPENSER'S Fairy Queen, lost in the Passage from Ireland. ()
- SONNET IX. ()
- SONNET X. To the Author of Observations on the Conversion and Apostleship of St. PAUL. ()
- SONNET XI. ()
- SONNET XII. ()
- SONNET XIII. To the Right Hon. Mr. —, with the foregoing SONNETS. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. TO MATTHEW BARNARD. ()
- SONNET. TO MISS H. M. ()
- SONNET. TO MR. J. PAICE. ()
- SONNET. TO THE SAME. ()
- SONNET. TO W. HEBERDEN, M. D. ()
- SONNET. TO —. ()