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[Page 57]
The DREAM.
1 AH stay, fair fleeting Form, I charge thee stay;
2 Whither, ah whither wouldst thou glide away?
3 Ardelia calls thee, lovely cruel Shade!
4 Ardelia bids thee stay, thy once lov'd Maid!
[Page 58]5 Alas! in vain I call, for see he flies;
6 Flies my fond clasping Arms, and ardent Eyes.
7 Not all my Prayers can the lov'd Form detain:
8 My Sighs, my Tears, my Wishes are in vain.
9 In gentle Slumbers, Morpheus, close my Eyes,
10 And bid once more the lovely Phantom rise.
11 Bid him in all those heavenly Charms appear;
12 That melting Softness, that engaging Air,
13 In that too powerful Sorrow let him shine,
14 When first he gave his Heart and conquer'd mine.
15 Hence then, ye Sorrows, from the fancied Scene,
16 Despairs, eternal Sighs, and secret Pain,
17 Shall wound no more, no Thought my Bliss destroy;
18 No happy Rival interrupt my Joy:
19 For oh! whate'er my cruel Fates Design,
20 In Sleep Philander can be only mine.
About this text
Author: Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
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Genres:
heroic couplet; dream vision
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Lennox, Charlotte, ca. 1729-1804. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Young Lady. London: printed for, and sold by S. Paterson, 1747, pp. 57-58. [8],88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T139692; OTA K110146.000) (Page images digitized from microfilm of a copy in the Bodleian Library [G.Pamph. 1289 (14)].)
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The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.
Other works by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
- The ADVICE, An ODE. ()
- AMINTA and DELIA. A PASTORAL. ()
- ARDELIA to FLAVIA, An EPISTLE. ()
- The ART of COQUETTRY. ()
- ENVY. A SATIRE. ()
- An EPISTLE TO MONESES, IN IMITATION of OVID. ()
- A HYMN to VENUS, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- In Answer to Consolatory Verses wrote by a Friend. ()
- THE LANGUAGE of the EYES TO LADY J— F—. ()
- An ODE To SLEEP ()
- An ODE, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- An ODE. ()
- ON A LADY's Singing. ()
- On reading HUTCHISON on the PASSIONS. ()
- A PARODY ON AN ODE of HORACE, As TRANSLATED by Mr. FARQUHAR. ()
- A PASTORAL, FROM THE SONG of SOLOMON. ()
- PHILANDER. ()
- The QUESTION. ()
- THE RIVAL NYMPHS. A TALE. ()
- SHALLUM to HILPAH, An EPISTLE. From the SPECTATOR. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- TO A LADY Singing. ()
- To AURELIA, on her attempting to write Verses. ()
- To FLAVIA, An ODE. ()
- To MIRA. Inviting her to a RETREAT in the COUNTRY. ()
- TO MONESES Singing. ()
- Verses wrote extempore on a Gentleman's playing on the Flute. ()