SONNET (4) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS

WHERE nature's grand romantic charms invite
The glowing rapture of the soul refined;
In scenes like these the young poetic mind
May court the dreams of fancy with delight;
And dear to those by every muse inspired,
The rural landscape, and the prospect fair;
They love in mountain solitudes retired,
To own illusions that may banish care.
These gentle visions ever shall remain,
To soothe the poet in his pensive hours;
For him shall Fancy cull Piërian flowers,
And strew her garlands o'er the path of pain:
For him shall Memory shed her pensive ray,
O'er the soft hours of life's enchanting May.

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