"Strengthen'd by thee, this heart shall cease to melt / O'er ills that poor humanity must bear; / Nor friends estrang'd, or ties dissolv'd be felt / To leave regret, and fruitless anguish there."
Sonnet XXXV [from Elegiac Sonnets]
At least 13 entries in the ESTC (1786, 1787, 1789, 1790, 1792, 1795, 1797, 1800).<br>
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Text drawn and corrected from OCR of 1789 edition in Google Books. Reading and comparing <u>The Poems of Charlotte Smith</u>, ed. Stuart Curran (New York and Oxford: OUP, 1993).<br>
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See <u>Elegiac Sonnets by Charlotte Smith.</u> 4th ed, corr. (London: Printed for J. Dodsley, H. Gardner, and J. Bew, 1786).
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See also <u>Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems, by Charlotte Smith</u>, 9th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1800). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=zjUJAAAAQAAJ">Link to volume I in Google Books</a>&gt; &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CB3330914379&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to volume II in ECCO</a>&gt; -- Note, Curran uses this edition as his base text for Sonnets 1 through 59.