Mary Darby Robinson

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Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow    O'er
AN'S Lake rose, tow'ring;
The

EN will my troubled soul have rest
"  The beauteous
IN cried;
As thro' the murky shade of night  With frantic step she hied

HE knell of death, that on the twilight gale,  Swells its deep murmur to the pensive ear;
In awful sounds repeats a mournful tale,  And claims the tribute of a tender tear
The dreadful hour is past
the mandate giv'n

A form, as any taper, fine ; A head like half-pint bason ; Where golden cords, and bands entwine, As rich as fleece of
ON
A pair of shoulders strong and wide, Like country clown enlisting ; Bare arms long dangling by the side, And shoes ...

"What is this world
­thy school,
O misery
"Our only lesson is to learn to suffer

By the side of the brook, where the willow is waving Why sits the wan Youth, in his wedding-suit gay
Now sighing so deeply, now frantickly raving Beneath the pale light of the moon's sickly ray
Now he starts, all aghast, and with horror'...

NT slipp'ry, people sneezing, Lords in ermine, beggars freezing ; Titled gluttons dainties carving, Genius in a garret starving
Lofty mansions, warm and spacious ; Courtiers clinging and voracious ; Misers scarce the wretched heeding ; Gallan...

'Twas in a little western town    An ancient Maiden dwelt:
Her name was
SS, or
SS,

AR
DE OF
IM, who grac'd the mimick scene,  And charm'd attention with resistless pow'r;
Whose wond'rous art, whose fascinating mien,  Gave glowing rapture to the short-liv'd hour

[Inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of
SE in a woodbine's tangled shade,
The
NG

O
LY thee from the shades of night, Where the loud tempests yelling rise;
Where horrror wings her sullen flight Beneath the bleak and lurid skies
As the pale light'ning swiftly gleams O'er the scorch'd wood, thy well-known form More...

"With female Fairies will thy tomb be haunted"And worms will not come to thee
"
RE
EN from Day's closing eye the lucid tears Fall lightly on the bending lily's head; When o'er the blushing sky night's curtains spread,...