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To Fortune.
FROM METASTASIO.
1 UNSTABLE Goddess! why, with care severe,
2 Still dost thou strew with thorns my rugged path?
3 Thinkst thou I tremble at thy frowns? or e'er
4 Will crouch submissive to avert thy wrath?
5 Preserve thy threats for thine unhappy slaves,
6 The shuddering victims of thy treacherous power;
7 My soul, thou knowest, amid o'erwhelming waves,
8 Shall smile superior in the roughest hour.
9 With me as oft as thou wouldest proudly wage
10 The combat urged by thy malicious ire,
11 Full well thou knowest, that from thy baffled rage
12 My soul has seemed fresh vigour to acquire;
13 So the bright steel beneath the hammer's blows
14 More polished, more refined, and keener grows.
Source edition
Tighe, Mary, 1772-1810. Psyche, With Other Poems. London: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW, 1811, p. 268. 314p. (Page images digitized from a copy at University of California Libraries.)
Editorial principles
Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.
Other works by Mary Tighe (née Blachford)
- Address to My Harp. ()
- Addressed to My Brother. 1805. ()
- Bryan Byrne, of Glenmalure. ()
- A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life. SON OF SIRACH. ()
- Hagar in the Desert. ()
- Imitated from Jeremiah. — Chap: xxxi. v. 15. ()
- The Lily. May, 1809. ()
- Morning. ()
- On Leaving Killarney. August 5, 1800. ()
- On Receiving a Branch of Mezereon Which Flowered at Woodstock. DECEMBER, 1809. ()
- The Picture. WRITTEN FOR ANGELA. ()
- Pleasure. ()
- Psyche [Canto I.] (); [Psyche] Canto II. (); [Psyche] Canto III. (); [Psyche] Canto IV. (); [Psyche] Canto V. (); [Psyche] Canto VI. ()
- The Shawl's Petition, to Lady Asgill. ()
- Sonnet Addressed to My Mother ()
- Sonnet Written at Woodstock, in the County of Kilkenny, the Seat of William Tighe. June 30, 1809. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- Sonnet. ()
- To Death. ()
- To Lady Charlemont, in Return for Her Presents of Flowers ()
- To the Memory of Margaret Tighe: TAKEN FROM US JUNE 7TH, 1804. — ÆTAT 85. ()
- To Time. ()
- To W. P. Esq. Avondale. ()
- The Vartree. ()
- Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring. — 1802. ()
- Verses Written in Sickness. December, 1804. ()
- Written at Killarney. July, 20 1800. ()
- Written at Rossana. ()
- Written at Rossana. November 18, 1799. ()
- Written at Scarborough. August, 1799. ()
- Written at the Eagle's Nest, Killarney. July 26, 1800. ()
- Written at West-Aston. June, 1808. ()
- Written for Her Niece S. K. ()
- Written in a Copy of Psyche WHICH HAD BEEN IN THE LIBRARY OF C. J. FOX. April, 1809. ()
- Written in Autumn. ()
- Written in the Church-Yard at Malvern. ()