“When Death, or adverse Fortune's ruthless gale, Tears our best hopes away, the wounded Heart Exhausted, leans on all that can impart The charm of Sympathy; her mutual wail How soothing! never can her warm tears fail To balm our bleeding grief's severest smart; Nor wholly vain feign'd Pity's solemn art, Tho' we should penetrate her sable veil. Concern, e'en known to be assum'd, our pains Respecting, kinder welcome far acquires Than cold Neglect, or Mirth that Grief profanes. Thus each faint Glow-worm of the Night conspires, Gleaming along the moss'd and darken'd lanes, To cheer the Gloom with her unreal fires.”
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Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace
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Anna Seward
Anna Seward, a renowned 18th-century English poet, was born on December 12, 1742, and died on March 25, 1809. Her poetry is known for its rich emotions and beautiful language, and she is considered one of the pioneers of Romanticism in English poetry. more
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