Arts & Sciences
A Sonnet to the Book
From Poems by Mr. Jerningham, a new edition (London: J. Robson, 1796), ECCO-TCP K107811
Arts & Sciences
AH go! beyond thy kindred copies blest,
Go meet thy happiness—be JERSEY'S guest:
She, skill'd to judge, thy humble themes receives,
Her graceful hand shall touch thy trembling leaves:
Her eyes, the boast and envy of the age,
Shall shed their pleasing lustre o'er thy page:
And while she reads, thy conscious form shall feel
The breath of spring from lips celestial steal.
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