The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
To Celinda, desiring him to describe her.
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To Celinda, desiring him to describe her.
Alas you know not what you bid me do!He, who loves well, can ne'er distinguish, too.
To paint you, justly, asks cool reason—I
Thro' passion's faithless glass, should look too high.
If, when I trace you, absent, killing fair!
I catch the aguish influence of despair;
To search you, near, my soul cou'd ne'er endure,
Without dissolving quite, in love's hot calenture.
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