Love Poems – Page 44
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Aurora
O HAPPY Tithon! if thou know'st thy hap, / And valuest thy wealth, as I my want, / Then need'st thou not—which ah! I grieve to grant— … -
A Litany
Drop, drop, slow tears, / And bathe those beauteous feet / Which brought from Heaven … -
Of his Dear Son, Gervase
Dear Lord, receive my son, whose winning love / To me was like a friendship, far above / The course of nature or his tender age; … -
Invocation
phoebus, arise! / And paint the sable skies / With azure, white, and red; … -
Spring Bereaved 1
that zephyr every year / So soon was heard to sigh in forests here, / It was for her: that wrapp'd in gowns of green … -
Spring Bereaved 2
Sweet Spring, thou turn'st with all thy goodly train, / Thy head with flames, thy mantle bright with flow'rs: / The zephyrs curl the green locks of the plain, … -
Spring Bereaved 3
Alexis, here she stay'd; among these pines, / Sweet hermitress, she did alone repair; / Here did she spread the treasure of her hair, … -
Her Passing
the beauty and the life / Of life's and beauty's fairest paragon / —O tears! O grief!—hung at a feeble thread … -
Inexorable
my thoughts hold mortal strife; / I do detest my life, / And with lamenting cries … -
Change should breed Change
new doth the sun appear, / The mountains' snows decay, / Crown'd with frail flowers forth comes the baby year. …
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