Female Poems On Several Occasions Written by Ephelia. The Second Edition, with large Additions |
The first Song in the Play. |
Female Poems On Several Occasions | ||
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The first Song in the Play.
Begone fond Love, make haste away,Duty, not thee, our Souls must sway:
Can thy Almighty Pow'rs
Find out no other Hearts,
To Shoot thy Fatal Darts,
But hapless Ours,
VVho cannot, though we wou'd, Obey?
What secret Pow'r is it, Controuls
The Empire thou pretend'st o're Souls?
That still thy shafts are lost,
And still thou Shoot'st in vain,
For they that feel most Pain,
By Duty 're Crost,
Or else unjustly meet Disdain.
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By Loves Command; for simple Love,
Alass! is Subject unto Fate:
Oh Love! Assert thy Pow'r,
And make the Dotards, in an hour
Our Faces hate,
And the young Knights like Swans or Turtles prove.
Female Poems On Several Occasions | ||