Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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O Love, how fair thou art to-day—
I would thy face were so alway!
O Love, how fair thou art; and yet
How apt, O Love, to play coquette,
As if the part were sweet to play.
I would thy face were so alway!
O Love, how fair thou art; and yet
How apt, O Love, to play coquette,
As if the part were sweet to play.
At times as bright and blithe and gay
As ripples in the coral bay,—
Without foreboding or regret,—
O Love, how fair!
As ripples in the coral bay,—
Without foreboding or regret,—
O Love, how fair!
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At times; but 'tis not always May,
And when thy votaress, Miss A.
Makes up with him for whist a set,
Or trills with him the soft duet,
'Tis not so easy then to say,
“O Love, how fair!”
And when thy votaress, Miss A.
Makes up with him for whist a set,
Or trills with him the soft duet,
'Tis not so easy then to say,
“O Love, how fair!”
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