Mary Darby Robinson

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

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

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

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'...

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

RE on the bosom of the foamy
NE,
In curling waves the rapid waters shine;
Where tow'ring cliffs in awful grandeur rise,