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TO AMANDA,
On her recovery from sickness.
1 WHEN April turns his wat'ry eye,
2 That stain'd his infant cheek with tears,
3 And beneath a golden sky,
4 The blooming May appears;
5 Waked by the tears which April shed,
6 Gay Flora leaves her sleeping bed,
7 And calls her beauteous train,
8 To hail a scene, so sweet, so fair,
9 Each artless warbler fills the air
10 With an enchanting strain.
11 Sad Philomela's mournful songs,
12 Chaste Cynthia's silver beams invite,
13 Melodiously to speak her wrongs,
14 To the pale shades of night.
[Page 49]15 While the shrill lark salutes the morn,
16 And hails the God of Day's return,
17 With many a sprightly lay;
18 Gay flowers present their fragrant bloom,
19 Mild zephyrs catch the rich perfume,
20 To scent the op'ning day.
21 Not the sweet warblers of the grove,
22 Nor the shrill lark's exalted strain;
23 Hail more pleased the scenes they love,
24 More welcome Flora's train,
25 Than I, when health her roses shed,
26 Upon Amanda's drooping head,
27 And rais'd her languid frame;
28 Would bid my Muse, her transports show,
29 And paint the sympathetic glow,
30 Inspired by friendship's name.
31 Not flowers more freely spread their bloom,
32 More freely their rich fragrance bring,
33 The gentle zephyr to perfume,
34 And deck the lap of Spring,
35 Than would I now cull ev'ry sweet,
36 Hygeia's lovely form to greet,
37 And bless that healing pow'r,
38 Who opens on Amanda's sight,
[Page 50]39 Rejoicing friends, renew'd delight,
40 Led by each golden hour.
41 Far gayer garlands I had wove,
42 But sullen grief, and anxious care;
43 Stole them from the hand of love,
44 And placed a cypress there. *
* The death of one friend, and dangerous illness of another.
45 Sportive, as fancy's frolic dream,
46 Euphrosyne had graced my theme,
47 My cheerful lyre had strung;
48 But grief and fear oppos'd her reign,
49 And Philomela's pensive strain,
50 Must hang upon my tongue.
Source edition
Daye, Eliza, b. ca. 1734. Poems, on Various Subjects. Liverpool: Printed by J. M'Creery, 1798, pp. [48]-50. [2],x,[4],258p.; 8° (ESTC T132359) (Page images digitized by University of California Libraries.)
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Other works by Eliza Day
- APPEARANCE AND REALITY. ()
- AT THE SAME PLACE. ()
- ATTENDANCE UPON RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS. ()
- THE BIRTH OF GENIUS. ()
- THE BIRTH-DAY ORNAMENTS. ()
- CHLOE. ()
- AN EVENING HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- EVENING HYMN. ()
- EXTEMPORE LINES, To a Young Lady with an Anemone. ()
- THE FAMILY OF ADVERSITY. ()
- FOR EASTER SUNDAY. ()
- FOR SUNDAY. ()
- THE GOODNESS OF GOD. ()
- HIS IMMENSITY. ()
- A HYMN FOR NEW YEAR'S DAY. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY EVENING. ()
- HYMN FOR SUNDAY. ()
- A HYMN IN SICKNESS. ()
- HYMN Sung at a Charity Sermon, in Lancaster, on the 22d of January, 1797, for the Blind Asylum, Liverpool. ()
- LANCASTER CASTLE, BY MOONLIGHT. ()
- THE LAUREL. ()
- LEGEND. ()
- LINES Occasioned by my putting a Bee out of my Window one cold Morning in February, at the request of a Child. ()
- MERCY. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MORNING HYMN. ()
- MY LAST VISIT TO W — Y C — G, ON THE SICKNESS OF MRS. W — Y. ()
- [THE MYRTLE] Upon a lady losing a sprig of Myrtle, presented to her by her husband, on the morning of their marriage. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF GEORGE KENDAL, Who was drowned upon his birth-day, and the day he had been bound apprentice. ()
- OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF MRS. MIRIAM GILLISON. ()
- ODE TO HEALTH. ()
- ODE TO HOPE. ()
- OMNISCIENCE. ()
- ON FINDING A STRAYED CHILD. ()
- ON FRIENDSHIP. ()
- ON THE BIRTH DAY OF THREE YOUNG LADIES. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE GILLISON. ()
- ON THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD. ()
- POWER AND PROVIDENCE. ()
- THE QUESTION. ()
- RESIGNATION. ()
- SOLILOQUY. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONNET TO CELIA. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- SONNET. ()
- A SUNDAY EVENING's HYMN, IN SICKNESS. ()
- THOUGHTS BEFORE THE INTERMENT OF A FRIEND. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF AN AMIABLE YOUTH, WHILE HIS FRIENDS WERE MET TO CELEBRATE HIS BIRTH-DAY. ()
- THOUGHTS OCCURRING IN THE THEATRE, ON SEEING MRS. SIDDONS IN THE CHARACTER OF BELVIDERA. ()
- THE THREE LAMPS; OR, THE HERMIT OF THE WOOD. ()
- TO A SICK FRIEND. ()
- TO ANNA. ()
- TO BELINDA. ()
- TO DELIA. ()
- TO ELIZA S — —. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF A LADY, Whom the Author much esteemed when very young. ()
- TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE REV. C — — R — —. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO THE SAME. ()
- TO — — — ()
- TO — — —. ()
- UPON FINDING THE INSCRIPTION ON MY MOTHER'S MONUMENT DEFACED. ()
- WILLIAM AND ELLEN. ()
- WISDOM. ()
- WIT AND JUDGMENT. ()
- WRITTEN AT W. C. IN OCTOBER, AT SUN-SET ()