"Wit, that no suffering could impair, / Was thine, and thine whose mental powers / Of force to chase the fiends that tear / From Fancy's hands her budding flowers."
Verses, on the Death of [Henrietta O'Neill], Written in September, 1794
Reading and comparing <u>The Poems of Charlotte Smith</u>, ed. Stuart Curran (New York and Oxford: OUP, 1993).<br>
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<u>Elegiac Sonnets, And Other Poems, By Charlotte Smith</u>, 8th edition, 2 vols. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3311246592&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=wGNWAAAAYAAJ">Link to volume I in Google Books</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=dzZWAAAAYAAJ">volume II</a>&gt;<br>
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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; â€”Â Note, Curran uses this edition as his base text for Sonnets 1 through 59.