Sonnet + 

Oh! How I Love + 

Oh! how I love, on a fair summer’s eve, + 

When streams of light pour down the golden west, + 

And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest + 

The silver clouds, far⁠—far away to leave + 

All meaner thoughts, and take a sweet reprieve + 

From little cares; to find, with easy quest, + 

A fragrant wild, with Nature’s beauty drest, + 

And there into delight my soul deceive, + 

There warm my breast with patriotic lore, + 

Musing on Milton’s fate⁠—on Sydney’s bier⁠— + 

Till their stern forms before my mind arise: + 

Perhaps on wings of Poesy upsoar, + 

Full often dropping a delicious tear, + 

When some melodious sorrow spells mine eyes. + 