The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842) - Gredos ...

The Salamanca Corpus: The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire (1842)
On purple pinions lightly borne,
Uprear the canopy of day,
And o’er his chariot float away;
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Hadst thou not mark’d the evening shade,
In all her changeful colours fade;—
The golden glow, the sapphire hue,
The rosy red, the melting blue,
The soft sea-green with yellow tinge,
The curling clouds with skirts of fringe; —
This eye had ne’er beheld one charm,
Or felt the glow of nature warm;
Nor had she seen one dropping shower
Bring back to life the fainting flower;
Or the tall woods their aeches spread
In Gothic cloister head;
While the pale moon, with lamp-like beam.
In tremors lent her silvery stream;
“Yon drops of flame that stud the sky”
Had seem’d plain stars to my poor eye,
Until these orbs, with glory bound,
By thee were call’d fair worlds around!
No; source of pleasure! ‘twas thy soul
That brought me to conceive the whole.
The wish to please new thoughts inspir’d,
And I grew learn d where thou admir’d;
To be companion meet I strove,
With all the self-taught lore of love,
Lov’d Nature as she ought to be;
For loving her, was loving thee!
But should’st thou leave this vacant heart,
And should we, should we ever part,
E’en Nature’s self would grow less dear,
And I still shed the fretful tear.
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TO A LADY,
WHO FREQUENTLY WITHDREW FROM COMPANY.