Lucretia Maria Davidson Poems

Helpless, unprotected, weary,
Toss'd upon the world's wide sea,
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Sweet Solitude! I love thy silent shade,
I love to pause when in life's mad career;
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Sweet babe, I cannot hope thou wilt be freed
From woes, to all, since earliest time, decreed;
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The breeze blew fair, the waving sea
Curled sparkling round the vessel's side;
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Sweet child, and hast thou gone, for ever fled!
Low lies thy body in its grassy bed;
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(Written in her twelfth year.)
Star of England! Brunswick's pride!
Thou hast suffer'd, droop'd, and died!
Adversity, with piercing eye,
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I saw her when life's tide was high,
When youth was hov'ring o'er her brow,
When joy was dancing in her eye,
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Touch not the heart, for Sorrow's voice
Will mingle in the chorus wild;
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Wafted o'er a treacherous sea
Far from home, and far f ...
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(Written in her thirteenth year.)
Away! unstable, fleeting Pleasure,
Thou troublesome and g0lided treasure;
When the false jewel changes hue,
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