 | The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne |  |
To Mrs. Granville of Wotton in Buckinghamshire; afterwards Lady Conway.
Love, like a Tyrant whom no Laws constrain,
Now for some Ages kept the World in Pain;
Beauty, by vast Destructions got Renown,
And Lovers only by their Rage were known:
But Granville, more auspicious to Mankind,
Conqu'ring the Heart, as much instructs the Mind;
Blest in the Fate of her victorious Eyes,
Seeing, we love; and hearing, we grow wise:
So Rome for Wisdom, as for Conquest fam'd,
Improv'd with Arts, whom she by Arms had tam'd.
Above the Clouds is plac'd this glorious Light,
Nothing lies hid from her enquiring Sight;
Athens and Rome for Arts restor'd rejoice,
Their Language takes new Musick from her Voice;
Learning and Love, in the same Seat we find,
So bright her Eyes, and so adorn'd her Mind.
Now for some Ages kept the World in Pain;
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And Lovers only by their Rage were known:
But Granville, more auspicious to Mankind,
Conqu'ring the Heart, as much instructs the Mind;
Blest in the Fate of her victorious Eyes,
Seeing, we love; and hearing, we grow wise:
So Rome for Wisdom, as for Conquest fam'd,
Improv'd with Arts, whom she by Arms had tam'd.
Above the Clouds is plac'd this glorious Light,
Nothing lies hid from her enquiring Sight;
Athens and Rome for Arts restor'd rejoice,
Their Language takes new Musick from her Voice;
Learning and Love, in the same Seat we find,
So bright her Eyes, and so adorn'd her Mind.
Long had Minerva govern'd in the Skies,
But now descends, confest to Human Eyes;
Behold in Granville, that inspiring Queen,
Whom learned Athens so ador'd unseen.
But now descends, confest to Human Eyes;
Behold in Granville, that inspiring Queen,
Whom learned Athens so ador'd unseen.
| The Genuine Works in Verse and Prose, Of the Right Honourable George Granville, Lord Lansdowne | |