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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. Psyche, With Other Poems. London Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW 1811 p. 221. 314p.

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Sonnet . WHEN glowing Phoebus quits the weeping earth , What splendid visions rise upon the sight ! Fancy , with transient charms and colours bright , To changing forms in Heaven's gay scene gives birth : But soon the melting beauties disappear , And fade like those which in life's early bloom Hope bade me prize ; and the approaching gloom , These tints of sadness , and these shades of fear , Resemble most that melancholy hour Which , with a silent and resistless power , Shrouded my joy's bright beam in shadowy night : Till Memory marks each scene which once shone gay ; As the dark plains , beneath the Moon's soft light , Again revealed , reflect a mellowing ray .