Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ELEGIAC SONNET: 23. BY THE SAME. TO THE NORTH STAR, by CHARLOTTE SMITH


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First Line: To thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes
Last Line: Then fade: -- and leave me to despair, and die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): North Star


To thy bright beams I turn my swimming eyes,
Fair, fav'rite planet! which in happier days
Saw my young hopes, ah! faithless hopes! -- arise,
And on my passion shed propitious rays!
Now nightly wandering 'mid the tempests drear
That howl the woods and rocky steeps among,
I love to see thy sudden light appear
Thro' the swift clouds -- driven by the wind along;
Or in the turbid water, rude and dark,
O'er whose wild stream the gust of Winter raves,
Thy trembling light with pleasure still I mark,
Gleam in faint radiance on the foaming waves!
So o'er my soul short rays of reason fly,
Then fade: -- and leave me to despair, and die!





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