TO A SEA-NYMPH. 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 pp. 67-68. 118p. [Radcliffe's poems only, pp. 1-95]

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TO A SEA-NYMPH . O nymph ! who loves to float on the green wave , When Neptune sleeps beneath the moon-light hour , Lull'd by thy music's melancholy pow'r , O nymph , arise from out thy pearly cave ! For Hesper beams amid the twilight shade , And soon shall Cynthia tremble o'er the tide , Gleam on these cliffs , that bound the ocean's pride , And lonely silence all the air pervade . Then , let thy tender voice at distance swell , And steal along this solitary shore , Sink on the breeze , till dying — heard no more — Thou wak'st the sudden magic of thy shell . While the long coast in echo sweet replies , Thy soothing strains the pensive heart beguile , And bid the visions of the future smile , O nymph ! from out thy pearly cave — arise ! ( Chorus ) — Arise ! ( Semi-chorus ) — Arise !