To A Redbreast--(In Sickness)

Published 1842

[Almost the only verses by our lamented sister Sara Hutchinson.--I.F.]

One of the “Miscellaneous Poems.”--ED.

Stay, little cheerful Robin! stay, And at my casement sing, Though it should prove a farewell lay And this our parting spring.

Though I, alas! may ne’er enjoy The promise in thy song; A charm, that thought can not destroy, Doth to thy strain belong.

Methinks that in my dying hour Thy song would still be dear, And with a more than earthly power My passing Spirit cheer.

Then, little Bird, this boon confer, Come, and my requiem sing, Nor fail to be the harbinger Of everlasting Spring.

S.H.

1837

The poems belonging to the year 1837 include the “Memorials of a Tour in Italy” with Henry Crabb Robinson in that year, and one or two additional sonnets.--ED.