The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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ANOTHER ODE TO STELLA. |
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ANOTHER ODE TO STELLA.
Whilom arthritic tyranny consign'd
My gout-invaded limbs to beds of pain,
Me doctors in polluted air confin'd,
Beneath the downward Season's iron reign.
My gout-invaded limbs to beds of pain,
Me doctors in polluted air confin'd,
Beneath the downward Season's iron reign.
By the Moon's lambent light no more I stray'd;
No more soft woes of wanton love confest:
No more met wandering Pleasure in the shade,
Nor play'd on smiling Nature's naked breast.
No more soft woes of wanton love confest:
No more met wandering Pleasure in the shade,
Nor play'd on smiling Nature's naked breast.
But, come now, Stella, to the conscious shades!
Come, while usurping Darkness shares the day!
While Beauty shines, and listening Rapture leads,
Where twittering Progne pours the melting lay.
Come, while usurping Darkness shares the day!
While Beauty shines, and listening Rapture leads,
Where twittering Progne pours the melting lay.
Tho' shivering in a blasted plain I dwell;
Tho' vigorous Rapture sadden to Despair;
Tho' flow'rs and fruits and flickering Phœbus fail—
Thou'st lighted up a Constellation there.
Tho' vigorous Rapture sadden to Despair;
Tho' flow'rs and fruits and flickering Phœbus fail—
Thou'st lighted up a Constellation there.
O then in strife corporeal let me taste
The soft concatenation of Delight;
And, sinking on the down of Stella's breast,
In murmurs bid the waking world good-night.
The soft concatenation of Delight;
And, sinking on the down of Stella's breast,
In murmurs bid the waking world good-night.
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