The loves of hero and leander translations from various Greek authors (1728) |
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I. Upon Two Favourite-Maids, of whom she was jealous.
To Love.
Dire love, whom nothing can reclaim,
Ah me! dissolves my vital frame.
Dire bird of prey! more fierce than small!
And full of honey mixt with gall!
By thee alone, bright Athis, mov'd,
(So loving, late; and, still, so lov'd;)
Makes false Andromeda her care!
And leaves poor Sappho to despair.
Ah me! dissolves my vital frame.
Dire bird of prey! more fierce than small!
And full of honey mixt with gall!
By thee alone, bright Athis, mov'd,
(So loving, late; and, still, so lov'd;)
Makes false Andromeda her care!
And leaves poor Sappho to despair.
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