Work
Two Melodies
for violin and piano
About
Small viewless aeronaut, that by the line
Of Gossamer suspended, in mid air
Float’st on a sun-beam—Living atom, where
Ends thy breeze-guided voyage?
Thus begins ‘To the Insect of the Gossamer’, from Charlotte Smith, Conversations Introducing Poetry, chiefly on Subjects of Natural History, For the Use of Young Persons, Vol. 2 (London, 1819).