Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ELEGY WRITTEN AT THE SEA-SIDE .. ADDRESSED TO HONORIA SNEYD, by ANNA SEWARD


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First Line: I write, honora, on the sparkling sand
Last Line: But will on lasting tablets write thy name.
Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians


I write, Honora, on the sparkling sand! --
The envious waves forbid the trace to stay:
Honora's name again adorns the strand!
Again the waters bear their prize away!

So Nature wrote her charms upon thy face,
The cheek's light bloom, the lip's envermeil'd dye,
And every gay, and every witching grace,
That Youth's warm hours, and Beauty's stores supply.

But Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave,
Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm;
E'en Nature's self, so powerful, cannot save
Her own rich gifts from this o'erwhelming harm.

Love and the Muse can boast superior power,
Indelible the letters they shall frame;
They yield to no inevitable hour,
But will on lasting tablets write thy name.






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