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SONNET. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway]
1 How sweet is Love's first gentle sway,
2 When crown'd with flow'rs he softly smiles!
3 His blue eyes fraught with tearful wiles,
4 Where beams of tender transport play:
5 Hope leads him on his airy way,
6 And Faith and Fancy still beguiles —
7 Faith quickly tangled in her toils —
8 Fancy, whose magic forms so gay
9 The fair Deceiver's self deceive —
10 "How sweet is Love's first gentle sway;"
11 Ne'er would that heart he bids to grieve
12 From Sorrow's soft enchantments stray —
13 Ne'er — till the God exulting in his art,
14 Relentless frowns and wings th' envenom'd dart,
Source edition
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, p. 29. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95] (Page images digitized from a copy held at the National Library of the Netherlands.)
Editorial principles
Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. 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 Ann Radcliffe (née Ward)
- AIR. [Now, at Moonlight's fairy hour] ()
- THE BUTTER-FLY TO HIS LOVE. ()
- THE FIRST HOUR OF MORNING. ()
- THE GLOW-WORM. ()
- THE MARINER. ()
- MORNING, ON THE SEA-SHORE. ()
- NIGHT. ()
- NIGHT. ()
- THE PIEDMONTESE. ()
- THE PILGRIM. ()
- RONDEAU. [Soft as yon silver ray, that sleeps] ()
- THE SEA-NYMPH. ()
- SHIPWRECK. ()
- SONG OF A SPIRIT. ()
- SONG OF THE EVENING HOUR. ()
- SONG. [Life's a varied, bright illusion] ()
- SONG. [The rose that weeps with morning dew] ()
- SONNET, TO THE LILLY. ()
- SONNET. [Morn's beaming eyes at length unclose] ()
- SONNET. [Now the bat circles on the breeze of eve] ()
- STANZAS. [How smooth that lake expands its ample breast!] ()
- STANZAS. [O'er Ilion's plains, where once the warrior bled] ()
- STORIED SONNET. ()
- SUN-RISE: A SONNET. ()
- SUN-SET. ()
- TITANIA TO HER LOVE. ()
- TO A SEA-NYMPH. ()
- TO AUTUMN. ()
- TO MELANCHOLY. ()
- TO THE BAT. ()
- TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
- TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY. ()
- TO THE WINDS. ()