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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. 225. 314p.

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Sonnet . FOR me would Fancy now her chaplet twine Of Hope's bright blossoms , and Joy's fairy flowers , As she was wont to do in gayer hours ; Ill would it suit this brow , where many a line Declares the spring-time of my life gone by , And summer far advanced ; what now remain Of waning years , should own staid Wisdom's reign . Shall my distempered heart still idly sigh For those gay phantoms , chased by sober truth ? Those forms tumultuous which sick visions bring , That lightly flitting on the transient wing Disturbed the fevered slumbers of my youth ? Ah , no ! my suffering soul at length restored , Shall taste the calm repose so oft in vain implored .