“And yet, alas! to me the jocund Spring, Vainly her renovated beauties brings; To me, her blossoms and her birds but sing, Of vanish'd Hope, and Time's destructive wings.”

About Charlotte Smith

Poet • British

Charlotte Turner Smith was an influential English Romantic poet and novelist whose work helped shape the literary landscape of the late 18th century. Her Elegiac Sonnets, first published in 1784, were immensely popular...