Paola’s Reviews > Elegiac sonnets, by Charlotte Smith. The sixth edition, with additional sonnets and other poems. > Status Update

“OH! place me where the burning moon Forbids the wither'd flower to blow;
Or place me in the frigid zone, On mountains of eternal snow: Let me pursue the steps of Fame,
Or Poverty's more tranquil road;
Let youth's warm tide my veins inflame,
Or sixty winters chill my blood:
Though my fond soul to Heaven were flown,
Or though on earth 'tis doom'd to pine, Prisoner or free obscure or known…”