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[Page 67]
TO A SEA-NYMPH.
1 O nymph! who loves to float on the green wave,
2 When Neptune sleeps beneath the moon-light hour,
3 Lull'd by thy music's melancholy pow'r,
4 O nymph, arise from out thy pearly cave!
5 For Hesper beams amid the twilight shade,
6 And soon shall Cynthia tremble o'er the tide,
7 Gleam on these cliffs, that bound the ocean's pride,
8 And lonely silence all the air pervade.
9 Then, let thy tender voice at distance swell,
10 And steal along this solitary shore,
11 Sink on the breeze, till dying — heard no more —
12 Thou wak'st the sudden magic of thy shell.
[Page 68]13 While the long coast in echo sweet replies,
14 Thy soothing strains the pensive heart beguile,
15 And bid the visions of the future smile,
16 O nymph! from out thy pearly cave — arise!
(Chorus)
17 — Arise!
(Semi-chorus)
18 — Arise!
Source edition
Radcliffe, Ann Ward, 1764-1823. The Poems of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe. London: printed by and for J. Smith, Princes Street, 1816, pp. 67-68. 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. [How sweet is Love's first gentle sway] ()
- 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 AUTUMN. ()
- TO MELANCHOLY. ()
- TO THE BAT. ()
- TO THE NIGHTINGALE. ()
- TO THE VISIONS OF FANCY. ()
- TO THE WINDS. ()