OF LOVE. ANGER, in hasty words or blows, So ev'ry Passion, but fond Love, Makes him lament, and sigh, and weep! Disordered, tremble, fawn, and creep! Postures which render him despised; Where he endeavours to be prized! For women (born to be controlled!) Stoop to the Forward and the Bold! Affect the Haughty, and the Proud; The Gay, the Frolic, and the Loud! . . THE BUD. LATELY, on yonder swelling bush, I plucked it, though no better grown; With such a purple light they shone, All that was meant by air, or sun; If our loose breath so much can do; When FLAVIA it aspires to move! When that, which lifeless buds persuades TO A LADY, SINGING. WHILE I listen to thy voice, Calls my fleeting soul away! O, suppress that magic sound; Peace, CHLORIS! peace! or, singing, die! To Heaven may go! For all we know Of what the Blessèd do above, Is that they sing; and that they love! TO THE SAME LADY, SINGING THE FORMER SONG. CHLORIS! yourself you so excel, When you vouchsafe to breathe my thought, That like a Spirit, with this spell Of my own teaching I am caught! That eagle's fate and mine is one! Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high. Had ECHO, with so sweet a grace, NARCISSUS' loud complaints returned; Not for reflection of his face, But of his voice, the boy had mourned! ON A GIRDLE. THAT which her slender waist confined, It is my heaven's extremest Sphere; A narrow compass; and yet there OF ENGLISH VERSE. POETS may boast (as safely vain) Their Work shall with the world remain! Both bound together, live, or die; The verses and the prophecy! But who can hope his Lines should long When Architects have done their part; Poets, that lasting marble seek, CHAUCER, his Sense can only boast; The Beauties which adorned that Age, This was the generous Poet's scope; Verse, thus designed, has no ill fate, |