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Written in a Copy of Psyche WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE LIBRARY OF C. J. FOX.
April, 1809.
1 DEAR consecrated page! methinks in thee
2 The patriot's eye hath left eternal light,
3 Beaming o'er every line with influence bright
4 A grace unknown before, nor due to me:
5 And still delighted fancy loves to see
6 The flattering smile which prompt indulgence might
7 (Even while he read what lowliest Muse could write)
8 Have hung upon that lip, whose melody
9 Truth, sense, and liberty had called their own.
10 For strength of mind and energy of thought,
11 With all the loveliest weakness of the heart,
12 An union beautiful in him had shewn;
13 And yet where'er the eye of taste found aught
14 To praise, he loved the critic's gentlest part.
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Title (in Source Edition): Written in a Copy of Psyche WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE LIBRARY OF C. J. FOX. April, 1809.
Author: Mary Tighe (née Blachford)
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Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. Psyche, With Other Poems. London: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1811, p. [219]. 314p. (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Mary Tighe (née Blachford)
- Address to My Harp. ()
- Addressed to My Brother. 1805. ()
- Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure. ()
- A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life. SON OF SIRACH. ()
- Hagar in the Desert. ()
- Imitated from Jeremiah. — Chap: xxxi. v. 15. ()
- The Lily. May, 1809. ()
- Morning. ()
- On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800. ()
- On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon Which Flowered at Woodstock. DECEMBER, 1809. ()
- The Picture. WRITTEN FOR ANGELA. ()
- Pleasure. ()
- Psyche [Canto I.] (); [Psyche] Canto II. (); [Psyche] Canto III. (); [Psyche] Canto IV. (); [Psyche] Canto V. (); [Psyche] Canto VI. ()
- The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill. ()
- Sonnet Addressed to My Mother ()
- Sonnet Written at Woodstock, in the County of Kilkenny, the Seat of William Tighe. June 30, 1809. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- To Death. ()
- To Fortune. ()
- To Lady Charlemont, in Return for Her Presents of Flowers ()
- To the Memory of Margaret Tighe: TAKEN FROM US JUNE 7TH, 1804. — ÆTAT 85. ()
- To Time. ()
- To W. P. Esq. Avondale. ()
- The Vartree. ()
- Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring. — 1802. ()
- Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804. ()
- Written at Killarney. July, 20 1800. ()
- Written at Rossana. ()
- Written at Rossana. November 18, 1799. ()
- Written at Scarborough. August, 1799. ()
- Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800. ()
- Written at West-Aston. June, 1808. ()
- Written for Her Niece S. K. ()
- Written in Autumn. ()
- Written in the Church-Yard at Malvern. ()