Delusive Hope! more transient than the ray <br />That leads pale twilight to her dusky bed, <br />O'er woodland glen, or breezy mountain's head, <br />Ling'ring to catch the parting sigh of day. <br />Hence with thy visionary charms, away! <br />Nor o'er my path the flow'rs of fancy spread; <br />Thy airy dreams on peaceful pillows shed, <br />And weave for thoughtless brows, a garland gay. <br />Farewell low vallies; dizzy cliffs, farewell! <br />Small vagrant rills that murmur as ye flow: <br />Dark bosom'd labyrinth and thorny dell; <br />The task be mine all pleasures to forego; <br />To hide, where meditation loves to dwell, <br />And feed my soul, with luxury of woe!<br /><br />Mary Darby Robinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xvi-delusive-hope/
