The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes |
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TO MRS. ---.
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TO MRS. ---.
ON HER BEAUTIFUL TRANSLATION OF VOITURE'S KISS.
Mon âme sur mon lèvre étoit lors toute entière,
Pour savourer le miel qui sur la vôtre étoit;
Mais en me retirant, elle resta derrière,
Tant de ce doux plaisir l'amorce l'a restoit.
Voiture.
Pour savourer le miel qui sur la vôtre étoit;
Mais en me retirant, elle resta derrière,
Tant de ce doux plaisir l'amorce l'a restoit.
Voiture.
How heav'nly was the poet's doom,
To breathe his spirit through a kiss;
And lose within so sweet a tomb
The trembling messenger of bliss!
To breathe his spirit through a kiss;
And lose within so sweet a tomb
The trembling messenger of bliss!
And, sure his soul return'd to feel
That it again could ravish'd be;
For in the kiss that thou didst steal,
His life and soul have fled to thee.
That it again could ravish'd be;
For in the kiss that thou didst steal,
His life and soul have fled to thee.
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