SONNET. [Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose] Ann Radcliffe (née Ward) 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. Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street 1816 p. 20. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]

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SONNET . [ Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose ] Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose , And wake the blushes of the rose , That all night long oppress'd with dews , And veil'd in chilly shade its hues , Reclin'd , forlorn , the languid head , And sadly sought its parent bed ; Warmth from her ray the trembling flow'r derives , And , sweetly blushing , through its tears revives . " Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose , " And melt the tears that bend the rose ; But can their charms suppress the sigh , Or chace the tear from Sorrow's eye ? Can all their lustrous light impart One ray of peace to sorrow's heart ? Ah ! no ; their fires her fainting soul oppress — Eve's pensive shades more soothe her meek distress !