[401] 1832.
Is this a vernal thought? Even so, the Spring
TO THE LADY MARY LOWTHER[EJ]
With a selection from the Poems of Anne, Countess of Winchelsea; and extracts of similar character from other Writers; transcribed[402] by a female friend.
Composed 1820.—Published 1820
One of the "Miscellaneous Sonnets."—Ed.
Lady! I rifled a Parnassian cave
(But seldom trod) of mildly-gleaming ore;