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ELEGIAC SONNET: 84. TO THE MUSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet's Biography
First Line: Wilt thou forsake me who in life's bright may
Last Line: Where pity and remembrance bend and weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: Wilt thou forsake me who in life's bright may
Last Line: Where pity and remembrance bend and weep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness
Wilt thou forsake me who in life's bright May
Lent warmer lustre to the radiant morn;
And even o'er Summer scenes by tempests torn,
Shed with illusive light the dewy ray
Of pensive pleasure? -- Wilt thou, while the day
Of saddening Autumn closes, as I mourn
In languid, hopeless sorrow, far away
Bend thy soft step, and never more return? --
Crush'd to the earth, by bitterest anguish prest,
From my faint eyes thy graceful form recedes;
Thou canst not heal an heart like mine that bleeds;
But, when in quiet earth that heart shall rest,
Haply may'st thou one sorrowing vigil keep,
Where Pity and Remembrance bend and weep!
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