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"The Wild Wreath." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/RobiMWildW. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 3, 2025.
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TO A FRIEND,
ON THE AUTHOR'S INTENTION TO QUIT ENGLAND FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
COULD transient pleasures tempt my heartTo leave the friend my soul adores,Oh, Memory, oft thy tear would start,When, on Sicilia's viney shores,Each dancing maid or minstrel gayBreath'd to the sinking sun their roundelay.
And, as the misty vapor stoleAlong the purpling ev'ning sky,
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Would Memory picture to my soulThy glowing cheek, thy speaking eye;While my sad aching heart would mourn,To know those blissful days would ne'er return.
When, stricken by the hand of care,In some far distant land I sleep,No soothing breast my grief to share,No mournful eye for me will weep;And, when my weary soul shall seek repose,Some Stranger's hand my fainting eyes will close:Ev'n then TO THEE my fleeting thoughts will rove;Sad as my fate, though constant as my love.
M. E. R.
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