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To Adversity.
1 HAIL, pallid nymph, with downcast eye,
2 With sable garb, and head reclin'd,
3 Severely kind Adversity,
4 Preceptress of the thoughtless mind!
5 'Tis thine to draw dark Error's veil
6 From the deluded eyes of youth;
7 To teach the heart of Pride to feel,
8 And lead the wanderer to Truth.
9 Though venal Flattery and Deceit
10 Ne'er offer incense at thy shrine,
11 Pity still seeks thy lone retreat,
12 And real Friendship still is thine.
13 For, as pure gold by fire we prove,
14 Adversity's the test of love.
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Manners, Catherine Rebecca, Lady, 1766 or 1767-1852. Poems by Lady Manners. Second edition. London: John Bell, 1793, p. [80]. 126p. (ESTC T173070)
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- The Child Of Sorrow. ()
- Eugenio and Eliza, a Tale. ()
- Gertrude. ()
- Lines Addressed to a Mother in Ireland. ()
- Lines on the Late Partition of Poland. ()
- On a Child. ()
- On Leaving Lehena, in October, M DCC LXXXVIII. ()
- On Leaving Steephill, August, M DCC XC. ()
- On Parting with a Mother, in M DCC XC. ()
- On Returning to Lehena, in May, M DCC LXXXVIII. ()
- On the Same. ()
- On the Same. ()
- Osmond and Matilda, A Tale. ()
- Reflections on the Prevalence of Fashion. ()
- Semira. ()
- Sent with Some Poems. ()
- To a Friend. Written in M DCC XC. ()
- To Contentment. ()
- To Hope. ()
- To Sensibility. ()
- To Solitude. ()
- Virtue. ()
- Written at Steephill, in the Isle of Wight, August, M DCC XC. ()
- Written in the Winter of MDCCXCI, Whilst on Barnet Field. ()
- Written in Winter. ()
- Written on Leicester Abbey. ()