Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems
Charlotte Turner Smith
107 chapters · 3 h 5 min · English
Read by David Barnes, Cori Samuel
Poetry
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Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 to 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility.
Chapters
1 Sonnet I 1 min 2 Sonnet II. Written at the close of Spring 1 min 3 Sonnet III. To a Nightingale 1 min 4 Sonnet IV. To the Moon 1 min 5 Sonnet V. To the South Downs 1 min 6 Sonnet VI. To Hope 1 min 7 Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale 1 min 8 Sonnet VIII. To Spring 1 min 9 Sonnet IX 1 min 10 Sonnet X. To Mrs. G 1 min 11 Sonnet XI. To Sleep 1 min 12 Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore 1 min 13 Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch 1 min 14 Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch 1 min 15 Sonnet XV. From Petrarch 1 min 16 Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch 1 min 17 Sonnet XVII. From the 13th Cantata of Metastasio 1 min 18 Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont 1 min 19 Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Hayley 1 min 20 Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A---- 1 min 21 Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter 1 min 22 Sonnet XXII. By the same 1 min 23 Sonnet XXIII. By the same 1 min 24 Sonnet XXIV. By the same 1 min 25 Sonnet XXV. By the same 1 min 26 Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun 1 min 27 Sonnet XXVII 1 min 28 Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship 1 min 29 Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---- 1 min 30 Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun 1 min 31 Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, on the South Downs, May 1784 1 min 32 Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun 1 min 33 Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun 1 min 34 Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend 1 min 35 Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude 1 min 36 Sonnet XXXVI 1 min 37 Sonnet XXXVII. Sent to the Honourable Mrs O'Neill with painted flowers 1 min 38 Sonnet XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline 1 min 39 Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. From the same 1 min 40 Sonnet XL. From the same 1 min 41 Sonnet XLI. To Tranquility 1 min 42 Sonnet XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November 1787 1 min 43 Sonnet XLIII 1 min 44 Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex 1 min 45 Sonnet XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex 1 min 46 Sonnet XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn 1788 1 min 47 Sonnet XLVII. To Fancy 1 min 48 Sonnet XLVIII. To Mrs. **** 1 min 49 Sonnet XLIX. From the Novel of Celestina 1 min 50 Sonnet L. From the same 1 min 51 Sonnet LI. From the same 1 min 52 Sonnet LII. From the same 1 min 53 Sonnet LIII. From the same 1 min 54 Sonnet LIV. The Sleeping Woodman 1 min 55 Sonnet LV. The Return of the Nightingale 1 min 56 Sonnet LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America 1 min 57 Sonnet LVII. To Dependence 1 min 58 Sonnet LVIII. The Glow-worm 1 min 59 Sonnet LIX. Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable Thunder Storm 1 min 60 Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline 3 min 61 Elegy 5 min 62 Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis 2 min 63 The Origin of Flattery 8 min 64 The Peasant of the Alps 3 min 65 Song 1 min 66 Thirty-eight 3 min 67 Verses intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline 2 min 68 Sonnet LX. To an amiable Girl 1 min 69 Sonnet LXI. Supposed to have been written in America 1 min 70 Sonnet LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow 1 min 71 Sonnet LXIII. The Gossamer 1 min 72 Sonnet LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794 1 min 73 Sonnet LXV. To Dr Parry of Bath, with some Botanic Drawings which had been made some years 1 min 74 Sonnet LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex 1 min 75 Sonnet LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a tempest 1 min 76 Sonnet LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Mid-summer 1795 1 min 77 Sonnet LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort 1 min 78 Sonnet LXX. On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic 1 min 79 Sonnet LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter 1 min 80 Sonnet LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea 1 min 81 Sonnet LXXIII. To a Querulous Acquaintance 1 min 82 Sonnet LXXIV. The Winter Night 1 min 83 Sonnet LXXV 1 min 84 Sonnet LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the world 1 min 85 Sonnet LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer 1 min 86 Sonnet LXXVIII. Snow-drops 1 min 87 Sonnet LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany 1 min 88 Sonnet LXXX. To the Invisible Moon 1 min 89 Sonnet LXXXI 1 min 90 Sonnet LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns 1 min 91 Sonnet LXXXIII. The Sea view 1 min 92 Sonnet LXXXIV. To the Muse 1 min 93 The Dead Beggar 2 min 94 The Female Exile 3 min 95 Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November 1792 5 min 96 Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex 1 min 97 A descriptive Ode 5 min 98 Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest, in early Spring 2 min 99 Song. From the French 2 min 100 Apostrophe to an Old Tree 3 min 101 The Forest Boy 8 min 102 Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend 3 min 103 Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play 2 min 104 Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in September 1794 2 min 105 Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War 4 min 106 April 4 min 107 Ode to Death 2 min
