The Mind

Sonnet XXXII: Subject of the Preceding Sonnet Continued

by Anna Seward 1742–1809

From Original Sonnets on Various Subjects (1799)

The Mind

Behold him now his genuine colours wear,
That specious False-One, by whose cruel wiles
I lost thy amity; saw thy dear smiles
Eclips'd; those smiles, that us'd my heart to cheer,
Wak'd by thy grateful sense of many a year
When rose thy youth, by Friendship's pleasing toils
Cultur'd;--but DYING!--O! for ever fade
The angry fires.--Each thought, that might upbraid
Thy broken faith, which yet my soul deplores,
Now as eternally is past and gone
As are the interesting, the happy hours,
Days, years, we shar'd together. They are flown!
Yet long must I lament thy hapless doom,
Thy lavish'd life and early-hasten'd tomb.

MLA

Seward, Anna. “Sonnet XXXII: Subject of the Preceding Sonnet Continued.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/seward/31/.

Chicago

Seward, Anna. “Sonnet XXXII: Subject of the Preceding Sonnet Continued.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/seward/31/.

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