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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 1, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The partial muse has from my earliest hours
Last Line: If those paint sorrow best -- who feel it most!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
First Line: The partial muse has from my earliest hours
Last Line: If those paint sorrow best -- who feel it most!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
The partial Muse has from my earliest hours
Smiled on the rugged path I'm doom'd to tread,
And still with sportive hand has snatch'd wild flowers,
To weave fantastic garlands for my head:
But far, far happier is the lot of those
Who never learn'd her dear delusive art;
Which, while it decks the head with many a rose,
Reserves the thorn to fester in the heart.
For still she bids soft Pity's melting eye
Stream o'er the ills she knows not to remove,
Points every pang, and deepens every sigh
Of mourning Friendship, or unhappy Love.
Ah! then, how dear the Muse's favours cost,
If those paint sorrow best -- who feel it most!
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