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"The Domestic Affections and Other Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/HemaFDomes. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2025.
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TO RESIGNATION.
MAID of the placid smile and heav'nly mien,With beaming eye, tho' tearful yet serene;Teach me, like thee, in sorrow's ling'ring hour,To bless devotion's all‐consoling pow'r;Teach me, like thee, when storms around me rise,And spreading glooms obscure the azure skies,On one unclouded light to fix my view,For ever brilliant and for ever true;The star of faith ! whose mild, celestial ray,With steady lustre shall direct my way:Thy seraph‐hand shall raise my drooping head;Angel of peace ! thy wings around me spread;With hallow'd spells my fainting spirit cheer,Hush the sad murmur, dry the starting tear.
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Thus when the halcyon broods upon the tides,The winds are lull'd, the mountain‐wave subsides;Soft rainbow‐hues, reflected, tinge the deep,And balmy zephyrs on its bosom sleepMaid of the placid smile ! my troubled soul,Would own thy gentle reign, thy mild control;Though the pale cypress twine thy sainted brow,Eternal palms for thee, in heav'n shall blow.
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