The Works of Soame Jenyns ... In Four Volumes. Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To Which are Prefixed, Short Sketches of the History of the Author's Family, and also of his Life; By Charles Nalson Cole |
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ANACREON, Ode XX. |
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ANACREON, Ode XX.
A rock on Phrygian plains we seeThat once was beauteous Niobe:
And Progne, too revengeful Fair!
Now flits a wand'ring bird in air:
Thus I a looking-glass wou'd be,
That you, dear maid, might gaze on me;
Be chang'd to stays, that straitly lac'd,
I might embrace thy slender waist;
A silver stream I'd bathe thee, Fair,
Or shine pomatum on thy hair;
In a soft sable's tippet's form
I'd kiss thy snowy bosom warm;
In shape of pearl that bosom deck,
And hang for ever round thy neck:
Pleas'd, to be ought, that touches you,
Your glove, your garter, or your shoe.
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