<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115047" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Miss Brinckerhoff</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eliza, when the southern gale<br>Expands the broad majestic sail,<br>While Friendship breathes the parting sigh,<br>And sorrow glitters in each eye,<br>The vessel leaves the flying shores,<br>Receding spires and less'ning tow'rs;<br>And as it cleaves the lucid sea,<br>The distant tumult dies away:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then pensive as the deck you quit,<br>Caressing sable rob'd regret,<br>Indulging every rising fear,<br>And urging on the pendant tear,<br>While Recollection's flatt'ring eye<br>Your former pleasures magnify;<br>Then shall your guardian spirit smile,<br>Rejoic'd that Fate rewards his toil;<br>And as he mounts on ærial wing,<br>Thus to his kindred angels sing:<br>'Hail, happy hour that snatch'd my fair<br>'To æther pure, from city air,<br>'Where Vice triumphant lifts her head<br>'And hisses Virtue to the shade;<br>'Where Temperance vacates each feast;<br>'Where Piety is grown a jest;<br>'Where Flatt'ry, dress'd in robes of truth,<br>'Inculcates pride in heedless youth;<br>'Where oft with folded wings I spy<br>'The torpid soul inactive lie,<br>'Shut up in sense, forbid to rear<br>'Her plume beyond our atmosphere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'How bless'd my charge, whom gentler fate<br>'Leads early to the green retreat,<br>'Where every object thoughts inspire<br>'Exalted to seraphic fire;<br>'And where the speculative mind<br>'Expatiates free and unconfin'd;<br>'There surely I shall find access<br>'To cherish ev'ry budding grace,<br>'Enlarging still each nobler pow'r,<br>'Till active, like myself they soar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'And when my pupil learns her worth,<br>'She'll feel a just contempt for earth,<br>'And six her elevated sight<br>'Alone on primogenial light:<br>'Nor shall her charms external fade,<br>'But bloom and brighten in the shade;<br>'While innate graces still shall rise,<br>'And dart their radiance thro' her eyes.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ann+Eliza+Bleecker">Ann Eliza Bleecker</a> from <i>The Posthumous Works of Ann Eliza Bleecker</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=115047" data-title="To Miss Brinckerhoff de Ann Eliza Bleecker" data-description="Eliza, when the southern gale/Expands the broad majestic sail,/While Friendship breathes the parting sigh,/And sorrow glitters in each eye,/The vessel leaves the flying shores,/Receding spires and less'ning tow'rs;/And as it cleaves the lucid sea,..."></div> </div> </div>

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