Of Friends, however humble, scorn not one:
1835.
[10] Compare the lines, written in 1845, beginning—
So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive.
Ed.
LINES
Written in the Album of the Countess of Lonsdale,[11] Nov. 5, 1834
Composed 1834.—Published 1835
[This is a faithful picture of that amiable Lady, as she then was. The youthfulness of figure and demeanour and habits, which she retained in almost unprecedented degree, departed a very few years after, and she died without violent disease by gradual decay before she reached the period of old age.—I.F.]
This was placed, in 1845, among the “Miscellaneous Poems.”—Ed.
Lady! a Pen (perhaps with thy regard,