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 |
TO A LADY
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TO A LADY
Who desired some Specimens of the Author's Poetry.
Let not Eliza bid me now rehearseTh'unvalued rhimes that long-forgotten lie;
For all unfit is my rude-fashion'd Verse
To meet the censure of her curious eye:
But for her sake a subject could I chuse
To draw down fame and envy on the Bard,
Thy lovely Self should be my theme and Muse,
And thy sweet smile, Eliza, my reward.
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