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Philomela

Or, Poems By Mrs. Elizabeth Singer, [Now Rowe,] ... The Second Edition
Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737)
  
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Verses to the Author, Known only by REPORT, and by Her POEMS.
  
ON REPRINTING Philomela's POEMS,
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POEMS ON Several Occasions.
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A PARAPHRASE ON THE CANTICLES.
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CHAP. I.
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CHAP. II
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CHAP. III.
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CHAP. IV.
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CHAP. VI.
  
On CANTICLES. Ch. V. VI. &c.
  
From CANTICLES, Ch. VII, XI.
  
From Job Ch. XIX. V. 26.
  
Pindaric ODE on HABAKKUK.
  
TO THE Author of the foregoing ODE. By the ATHENIANS
  
From MICAH, Ch. VI. 5, 6, 7.
  
From MALACHI, Ch. III. V. 14.
  
PARAPHRASE From John, Ch. III. V. 16.
  
From JOHN, Ch. XXI. V. 17.
  
On the REVELATIONS, Chap. I. from v. 13. to v. 18.
  
Thoughts on DEATH.
  
The REFLECTION.
  
The Vanity of the World, ADDRESSED To the ATHENIANS.
  
ANSWER OF THE ATHENIANS.
  
The RAPTURE.
  
THE EXPOSTULATION.
  
THE WISH. TO THE ATHENIANS.
  
ANSWER OF THE ATHENIANS.
  
A PASTORAL ON THE NATIVITY OF OUR SAVIOUR.
  
THE Fall of PHAETON, Paraphrased.
  
A PASTORAL.
  
A PASTORAL ELEGY.
  
PARTHENIA. AN ELEGY.
  
THE REPLY.
  
PLATONIC LOVE.
  
HUMAN LOVE,
  
REPLY TO HUMAN LOVE.
  
TO A FRIEND WHO Persuades me to leave the Muses.
  
A PINDARIC ODE, TO THE Athenian Society.
  
TO CELINDA.
  
THE FEMALE PASSION.
  
TO STREPHON.
  
TO ORESTES.
  
ANSWER BY THE ATHENIANS.
  
TO A LADY at Court.
  
THE VISION, To Theron.
  
ANOTHER.
  
FLORINDA
  
ON DESPAIR.
  
TO MEMORY.
  
SONG.
  
A Farewel to LOVE.
  
LOVE for LOVE.
  
The WHIM.

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PLATONIC LOVE.

I

So Angels Love! and all the rest is Dross;
Contracted, selfish, sensitive and gross.
Unlike to This, all free and unconfin'd,
Is That bright Flame I bear thy brighter Mind.

II

No stragling Wish, or Symptom of Desire,
Comes near the Limits of this Holy Fire;
Yet 'tis intense and active, tho' so fine,
For all my pure Immortal Part is Thine.

III

Why shou'd I then the Heav'nly Spark controul,
Since there's no brighter Ray in all my Soul,
Why shou'd I blush t'indulge the Noble Flame,
For which e'en Friendship's a degrading Name.
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IV

Nor is the Greatness of my Love to Thee,
A Sacrilege unto the Deity,
Can I th' enticing Stream almost adore,
And not respect its lovely Fountain more?
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