Sonnets and canzonets / A. Bronson Alcott [electronic text]

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Sonnets and canzonets / A. Bronson Alcott [electronic text]
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Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888
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Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers
1882
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"Sonnets and canzonets / A. Bronson Alcott [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9869.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2024.

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"So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return."
SHENSTONE.

Page 45

II.

AH! why so brief the visit, short his stay? The acquaintance so surprising, and so sweet, Stolen is my heart, 't is journeying far away, With that shy stranger whom my voice did greet. That hour so fertile of entrancing thought, So rapt the conversation, and so free, — My heart lost soundings, tenderly upcaught, Driven by soft sails of love and ecstasy! Was I then? was I? clasped in Love's embrace, And touched with ardors of divinity? Spake with my chosen lover face to face, Espoused then truly? such my destiny? I cannot tell; but own the pleasing theft, That when the stranger went, I was of Love bereft.
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