SONNET. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway] 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. 29. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]

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SONNET . [ How sweet is Love's first gentle sway ] How sweet is Love's first gentle sway , When crown'd with flow'rs he softly smiles ! His blue eyes fraught with tearful wiles , Where beams of tender transport play : Hope leads him on his airy way , And Faith and Fancy still beguiles — Faith quickly tangled in her toils — Fancy , whose magic forms so gay The fair Deceiver's self deceive — " How sweet is Love's first gentle sway ; " Ne'er would that heart he bids to grieve From Sorrow's soft enchantments stray — Ne'er — till the God exulting in his art , Relentless frowns and wings th' envenom'd dart ,