To Fortune. Mary Tighe (née Blachford) 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. Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. Psyche, With Other Poems. London Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW 1811 p. 268. 314p.

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To Fortune . FROM METASTASIO . UNSTABLE Goddess ! why , with care severe , Still dost thou strew with thorns my rugged path ? Thinkst thou I tremble at thy frowns ? or e'er Will crouch submissive to avert thy wrath ? Preserve thy threats for thine unhappy slaves , The shuddering victims of thy treacherous power ; My soul , thou knowest , amid o'erwhelming waves , Shall smile superior in the roughest hour . With me as oft as thou wouldest proudly wage The combat urged by thy malicious ire , Full well thou knowest , that from thy baffled rage My soul has seemed fresh vigour to acquire ; So the bright steel beneath the hammer's blows More polished , more refined , and keener grows .