CAPTIVITY—MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS[373]

Composed 1819.—Published 1819

One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."—Ed.

"As the cold aspect of a sunless way

Strikes through the Traveller's frame with deadlier chill,

Oft as appears a grove, or obvious hill,

Glistening with unparticipated ray,

Or shining slope where he must never stray;

So joys, remembered without wish or will,