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"Poems." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/TempLPoems. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.
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The SAILOR.SONG.
Can I forget the look she gave,When Passion seal'd the parting token ?Her lily hand she thrice did wave,But ne'er the faintest word was spoken.
Can I forget that chasten'd smileWhich veil'd a heart o'ercharg'd with sorrow,Yet my wild anguish to beguile,E'en Joy's fair semblance try'd to borrow.
Can I forget the trembling tearThat seem'd to say we part for ever ;And plainly told the hidden fearThat Fate the bands of Love would sever ?
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Oh ! nectar'd lip ! that once was mine,Sweet form that haunts my fev'rish slumbers ;Dear face that mem'ry owns divine,E'en all the charms my fancy numbers !
At length I view'd my native shore ;How wildly then my gay heart bounded !I flew to meet my love once more ;Her name thro' ev'ry grove resounded.
Her namealas ! 'twas all remain'd,'Twas all the envious Fates had left me !No more by darkling woes detain'd,She fledand oh ! of peace bereft me.
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