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Mrs. Pickersgill, "The Oriental Love-Letter." in The Bijou; (London: from The Bijou Literary Annual, 1828 The Oriental Love-Letter By Miss Pickersgill, Authoress of Tales of the Harem Fraser, William (1796-1854), compiler The Poetess Archive General Editor, and P5 encoding by Laura Mandell Transcribing and proofreading by Zach Weir 1828 TEI formatted filesize uncompressed: approx. 684 kbytes Laura Mandell, Texas A&M University College Station, TX 20170606 Freely available via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License bijou1828.poemP38 The Bijou Literary Annual Edited by Laura Mandell bijou1828-p5.xml , 0000-0000 The Oriental Love-Letter The Bijou; or Annual of Literature and the Arts William Fraser London William Pickering 1828 241-343sic This copy is transcribed from the volume held by Miami University Special Collections Department. 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And in her own sequester'd bower, Within the Harem's still retreat, Sitara at that lovely hour; Of Eve had chos'n her lonely seat; For on embroidered couches lay'd, Reclin'd the pensive Moslem maid. In vain the beauteous woodbines wound, Like Love's light bonds the casement round, Wafting their tribute of perfume And laughing in their roseate bloom; For all neglected lay her lute Whose every moving strain was mute! No longer was her buoyant song Borne by the southern breeze along, Nor flowers, nor lute, nor sparkling stream, Could woo her from Love's witching dream. Though close within her Harem bower, They deem'd her safe from Love's fond power, Yet in what deep sequester'd cell Will not the winged urchin dwell: For e'en within a flow'ry wreath Young Love his first fond vows may breathe; And in bright emblem flowers declare, Joy —absence—thraldom —hope—despair!— Perchance amidst those flowers he dwells, Nestling beneath the myrtle bells, And on its fragrance wafts a sigh While sunned beneath her radiant eye. And e'en those buds of crimson hue Breathe vows of love both pure and true, While the bright golden flowret bears, His ever changing hopes and fears, And Beauty's type, the joyous rose, Unfolds the soft and flattering tale, That her young cheek with luster glows, Which makes his vaunted bloom seem pale. Then may not her young bosom well, Receive the vows those emblems tell; And her dark downcast eyes reveal Thoughts which her tongue might else conceal? — And why then from the garland's pride Does she those simple flowers divide, And place them pensively apart, As if some chord within her heart Vibrated? Know amidst their bloom Those purple buds of absence breathe, Which well might shed a passing gloom O'er her fair brow. Did not the wreath Of fairy hope from spring's bright bowers Shine in those tufts of snowy flowers, Which, joined with Memory's solace still, Shields Love's young buds from winter's chill. , 1828)View: HTML | XML