Anna Seward (Анна Сьюард)

Sonnet 78. Sophia tempts me to her social walls

Sophia tempts me to her social walls,
    That 'mid the vast Metropolis arise,
    Where Splendor dazzles, and each Pleasure vies
    In soft allurement; and each Science calls
To philosophic Domes, harmonious Halls,
    And [1]storied Galleries. With duteous sighs,
    Filial and kind, and with averted eyes,
    I meet the gay temptation, as it falls
From a seducing pen.—Here—here I stay,
    Fix'd by Affection's power; nor entertain
    One latent wish, that might persuade to stray
From my ag'd Nurseling, in his life's dim wane;
    But, like the needle, by the magnet's sway,
    My constant, trembling residence maintain.

1. “And storied windows richly dight.”—Il Penseroso. 

1. Sonnet 36. Now on hills, rocks, and streams, and vales, and plains
2. Sonnet 56. What bashful wildness in those crystal eyes
3. Sonnet 73. He who a tender long-lov'd Wife survives
4. Sonnet 93. Yon soft Star, peering o'er the sable cloud
5. Sonnet 65. Marcellus, since the ardors of my strain

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