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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 81, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet's Biography
First Line: He may be envied, who with tranquil breast
Last Line: By friendship hallow'd -- rural happiness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
First Line: He may be envied, who with tranquil breast
Last Line: By friendship hallow'd -- rural happiness!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
He may be envied, who with tranquil breast
Can wander in the wild and woodland scene,
When Summer's glowing hands have newly drest
The shadowy forests, and the copses green;
Who, unpursued by care, can pass his hours
Where briony and woodbine fringe the trees,
On thymy banks reposing, while the bees
Murmur "their fairy tunes in praise of flowers;"
Or on the rock with ivy clad, and fern
That overhangs the osier-whispering bed
Of some clear current, bid his wishes turn
From this bad world; and by calm reason led,
Knows, in refined retirement, to possess
By friendship hallow'd -- rural happiness!
Other Poems of Interest...
ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH
ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH
ELEGIAC SONNET: 7. ON THE DEPARTURE OF THE NIGHTINGALE by CHARLOTTE SMITH
THIRTY EIGHT. ADDRESSED TO MRS. H -- Y. by CHARLOTTE SMITH
A DECSRIPTIVE ODE, ... UNDER THE RUINS OF RUFUS'S CASTLE by CHARLOTTE SMITH
A WALK BY THE RIVER by CHARLOTTE SMITH
A WALK IN THE SHRUBBERY by CHARLOTTE SMITH
AN EVENING WALK BY THE SEA-SIDE by CHARLOTTE SMITH
APOSTROPHE TO AN OLD TREE by CHARLOTTE SMITH