Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET TO THE FOREST YTENE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet's Biography First Line: Along thy wood-lanes wild, or shrubby lawns Last Line: And seeks the hermit peace within his forest bowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): New Forest, England | ||||||||
Along thy wood-lanes wild, or shrubby lawns, Or hollow dells, or glens befring'd with thorn; Where from its ferny lair, at early morn, The forester alarms the timid fawn, I would 'twere mine to wander; -- or when fade The gleams of evening into shadowy night: What time on many a stem or glassy blade The glow-worm hangs her fairy emerald light, I would behold the moon-beams fall among The far retiring trees, and lengthening glades, And listen the low wind, that thro' the shades Conveys the night-bird's soft love-labour'd song: For here the soul unruffled feels its powers, And seeks the Hermit Peace within his forest bowers. | Other Poems of Interest...A NEW FOREST BALLAD by CHARLES KINGSLEY THE RED KING by CHARLES KINGSLEY VERSES SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN THE NEW FOREST by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH 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 |
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