Janetta Philipps Poems

Addressed To An Amiable Young Lady On Presenting Her With Some Violets
ACCEPT, sweet Anne, the gift I bring,
The first fair promise of the year;
Meek children of the early Spring,
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Soft twilight bathes in pearly dew
Yon crimson-tinted rose,
And fresher to the gazer's view
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Awake, awake, ye echoes wild !
Ye caverns deep my lay prolong !
'Tis Ariel, Fancy's dearest child,
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When life's first dawn breaks on the raptured view,
And smiles each various scene so bright and new,
The Passions, thronging round the youthful heart,
Their glowing visions to the soul impart:
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The dancing moon-beam kissed the deep,
And Zephyr breathed his sweetest sigh,
When Mary, from the rocky steep,
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Oh ! heard ye not the sighing gale,
That fans the twilight grove!
And heard ye not the plaintive wail,
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The brightest cloud that decks the western skies
The flatterer Hope her mimic canvas chose,
Bade pictured dreams of future bliss arise,
And stole from memory all her treasured woes.
Gay were the forms her ready pencil drew,
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When fell Oppression o'er the earth
Her iron sceptre waved with fearful sway,
To thee, dread power of War, the fiend gave birth,
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The hapless wretch, whom fortune's hate
Has doomed with weary step to rove,
Torn by the ruthless hand of fate,
From all his heart had learned to love;
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Inserted In The Novel Delaval

Then teach me, ah! teach me that pang to subdue,
Which passion imposes, and reason disdains;
Bid memory no more the dear image renew,
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