"Those gifts for nobler purposes assign'd, / To raise the thoughts, and moralize the mind; / The chaste delights of virtues to inspire, / And warm the bosom with seraphic fire; / Sublime the passions, lend devotion wings, / And celebrate the first great cause of things."
On the Death of Mrs. Rowe [from Gentleman's Magazine]
Text from Women Writers Online: Elizabeth Carter, <u>Memoirs of the Life of Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, with a New Edition of her Poems</u>, Ed. Montagu Pennington, 2 vols. (London: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1816). &lt;<a href="http://textbase.wwp.brown.edu/WWO/php/wAll.php?doc=carter.poems.html">Link to WWO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/memoirslifemrse00unkngoog#page/n7/mode/2up">Same edition in Internet Archive</a>&gt;