"I bid the traitor Love, adieu! / Who to this fond, believing bosom came, / A guest insidious and untrue, / With Pity's soothing voice--in Friendship's name."
Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline [from Elegiac Sonnets]
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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<u>Elegiac Sonnets, By Charlotte Smith</u>, 5th edition (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=9HgCAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;
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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.