<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355443" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet LXI</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Supposed to have been written in America. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous float<br>O'er yon savannah with the mournful wind;<br>While, as the Indian hears your piercing note,<br>Dark dread of future evil fills his mind;<br>Wherefore with early lamentation break<br>The dear delusive visions of repose?<br>Why from so short felicity awake<br>My wounded senses to substantial woes?<br>O'er my sick soul thus rous'd from transient rest,<br>Pale Superstition sheds her influence drear,<br>And to my shuddering fancy would suggest<br>Thou com'st to speak of ev'ry woe I fear,<br>Ah! Reason little o'er the soul prevails,<br>When, from ideal ill, the enfeebled spirit fails!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charlotte+Smith">Charlotte Smith</a><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=355443" data-title="Sonnet LXI de Charlotte Smith" data-description="Supposed to have been written in America. ILL-omen'd bird! whose cries portentous float O'er yon savannah with the mournful wind; While, as the Indian hears your piercing note, Dark dread of future evil fills his mind; Wherefore with early lamen..."></div> </div> </div>

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