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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 78. SNOWDROPS, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan heralds of the sun and summer gale!
Last Line: For fixt regret, and hopeless grief are mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Snow
First Line: Wan heralds of the sun and summer gale!
Last Line: For fixt regret, and hopeless grief are mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner
Subject(s): Snow
Wan Heralds of the Sun and Summer gale!
That seem just fallen from infant Zephyrs' wing;
Not now, as once, with heart revived I hail
Your modest buds, that for the brow of Spring
Form the first simple garland[.] -- Now no more
Escaping for a moment all my cares,
Shall I, with pensive, silent step, explore
The woods yet leafless; where to chilling airs
Your green and pencil'd blossoms, trembling, wave.
Ah! ye soft, transient children of the ground,
More fair was she on whose untimely grave
Flow my unceasing tears! Their varied round
The Seasons go; while I through all repine:
For fixt regret, and hopeless grief are mine.
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