Poems on Various Subjects.

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Title
Poems on Various Subjects.
Author
Williams, Helen Maria, 1762‐1827
Publication
London,: G. and W. B. Whittaker
1823
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"Poems on Various Subjects." In the digital collection British Women Romantic Poets. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/WillHPoems. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2024.

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Page 209

SONNET
TO MRS. BATES.

O THOU, whose melody the heart obeys, Thou, who can'st all its subject passions move, Whose notes to heav'n the list'ning soul can raise, Can thrill with pity, or can melt with love! Happy! whom nature lent this native charm, Angelic tones, that shed, with magic power, A sweeter pleasure o'er the social hour: The breast to softness soothe, to virtue warm; But yet more happy, that thy life as clear From discord as thy perfect cadence flows; That, tun'd to sympathy, thy faithful tear In mild accordance falls for others' woes; That all the tender, pure affections bind, In chains of harmony, thy willing mind!
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