Poems on Various Subjects with some Essays in Prose, Letters to Correspondents, &c. and A Treatise on Health. By Samuel Bowden |
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ANTHOLOGIA, EPIG. 25.
By the Same.
I Search'd the fields, of every kind,
The fairest flowers I chose;
And sent a beauteous wreath to bind
My Rodoclea's brows.
The fairest flowers I chose;
And sent a beauteous wreath to bind
My Rodoclea's brows.
Here
Hyacinthus ting'd with blood,
In purple beauty glows,
There bursting thro' the swelling bud,
Appears the swelling rose.
In purple beauty glows,
There bursting thro' the swelling bud,
Appears the swelling rose.
Th'
Anemone of paler kind,
That moist in vallys grows;
Narcissus fair, that hangs the head,
And near the fountain blows.
That moist in vallys grows;
Narcissus fair, that hangs the head,
And near the fountain blows.
To boast thy charms, when crown'd with these,
Cease, cease, O! beauteous maid,
Thy face that blooms, so like the rose,
Like that alas! shall fade.
Cease, cease, O! beauteous maid,
Thy face that blooms, so like the rose,
Like that alas! shall fade.
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