<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355505" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet XXXVIII.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE. <br>WHEN welcome slumber sets my spirit free,<br>Forth to fictitious happiness it flies,<br>And where Elysian bowers of bliss arise,<br>I seem, my Emmeline--to meet with thee!<br>Ah! Fancy then, dissolving human ties,<br>Gives me the wishes of my soul to see;<br>Tears of fond pity fill thy soften'd eyes:<br>In heavenly harmony--our hearts agree.<br>Alas! these joys are mine in dreams alone,<br>When cruel Reason abdicates her throne!<br>Her harsh return condemns me to complain<br>Through life unpitied, unrelieved, unknown.<br>And as the dear delusions leave my brain,<br>She bids the truth recur--with aggravated pain.</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=355505" data-title="Sonnet XXXVIII. de Charlotte Smith" data-description="FROM THE NOVEL OF EMMELINE. WHEN welcome slumber sets my spirit free, Forth to fictitious happiness it flies, And where Elysian bowers of bliss arise, I seem, my Emmeline--to meet with thee! Ah! Fancy then, dissolving human ties, Gives me the wis..."></div> </div> </div>

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