Poems.

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Title
Poems.
Author
Temple, Laura Sophia.
Publication
London: Printed for R. Phillips
1805
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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 October 31, 2024.

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SONNET I.

To the EVENING GALE.

I love thee, wanton Wind ! I love thy wing To gently winnow my recumbent form, As on the moss‐grown steep my length I fling, And listen to the billows mutt'ring storm.
Then do I think me of those lovesome hours When Hope had first unfurl'd her golden sail, When 'midst the shade of world-secluded bow'rs, I felt thy nectar'd breath,­thou balmy Gale.
Yes ! it was sweet, 'twas “passing” sweet, to hear The wand'ring cadence of thy trembling tongue,

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For ah ! a voice, to sad remembrance dear, Oft its low sweetness on thy pinion hung. Pour then, oh breeze ! thy soft and charmful trill, And I will think I catch its sweetness still.

1801.

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