To the Memory of Mr. Agostino Isola
To the Nuns of Bodney
Written in London
Fragment
Fragment
Written April 18, 1796.




To ---- WITH ARTHUR and ALBINA.

1794.


Ah! if your eye should e'er these lines survey,
Dismiss from thence its penetrating ray:
Let Criticism then her distance keep,
And dreaded Justice then be lull'd to sleep;
For, let whatever sentence be their due,
I feel I cannot censure bear from you.


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_A British Maid awaits the arrival of her lover from the battle, on a
hill, where, at its commencement, she had retired to make vows to heaven
for his success.--Evening_.

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