FOOTNOTES:
[A] Compare, in Pope's Moral Essays, ii. 19—
Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.Ed.
[B] Compare, in the Elegiac Stanzas, suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle, in a Storm (vol. iii. p. 55)—
Elysian quiet, without toil or strife.Ed.
TO THE POET, JOHN DYER
Composed 1811.—Published 1815
Classed among the "Miscellaneous Sonnets." In the edition of 1815 the title was, To the Poet, Dyer.—Ed.