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Another May new buds and flowers shall bring;
Ah, why has happiness — no second Spring?


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For what is life, when Hope has ceas'd to strew
Her fragile flowers along its thorny way?


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If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

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May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time....

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Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night....

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In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

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Charlotte Turner Smith

Charlotte Turner Smith

Born: May 4, 1749
Died: October 28, 1806 (aged 57)
Bio: Charlotte Turner Smith was an English Romantic poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility.
Known for:
  1. Emmeline, The Orphan of the Castle (1788)
  2. Elegiac Sonnets And Other Poems (1786)
  3. The Old Manor House (1793)
  4. The young philosopher (1798)
  5. The poems of Charlotte Smith

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