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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 10. TO MRS. G., by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah! Why will mem'ry with officious care
Last Line: A share for me -- and I will not complain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
First Line: Ah! Why will mem'ry with officious care
Last Line: A share for me -- and I will not complain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Ah! why will Mem'ry with officious care
The long-lost visions of my days renew?
Why paint the vernal landscape green and fair,
When Life's gay dawn was opening to my view?
Ah! wherefore bring those moments of delight,
When with my Anna, on the southern shore,
I thought the future, as the present, bright?
Ye dear delusions! -- ye return no more!
Alas! how diff'rent does the truth appear,
From the warm picture youth's rash hand pourtrays!
How fades the scene, as we approach it near,
And pain and sorrow strike -- how many ways!
Yet of that tender heart, ah! still retain
A share for me -- and I will not complain.
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