Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, OCCASIONED BY READING MRS. MARY ROBINSON'S POEMS, by MARTHA HANSON


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OCCASIONED BY READING MRS. MARY ROBINSON'S POEMS, by                    
First Line: Daughter of genius! While thy tuneful lays
Last Line: Graved by the fingers of eternal fame.
Subject(s): Robinson, Mary (1758-1800)


Daughter of Genius! while thy tuneful lays
Lift my warm spirit from its mortal clay,
And bid it soar to realms of endless day,
In vain I seek thy matchless power to praise.
Though in the regions of the silent grave,
The tyrant Death has laid thy beauties low,
Around thy urn a lasting wreath shall blow,
Which still the wintry storms of fate shall brave.
The Muses culled its never fading flowers:
Which emblematic of thy heavenly strain,
To Time's last moment shall unchanged remain,
(Nor feel base envy's sting, detraction's powers)
And bloom for ever, round thy sacred name,
'Graved by the fingers of eternal fame.





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