The Wiccamical Chaplet a selection of original poetry; comprising smaller poems, serious and comic; classical trifles; sonnets; inscriptions and epitaphs; songs and ballads; mock-heroics, epigrams, fragments, &c. &c. Edited by George Huddesford |
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[In vain, my lovely frozen dame]
In vain, my lovely frozen dame,
The pow'rs of verse you bid me try;
While you with coldness check the flame
That should the sprightly thought supply.
The pow'rs of verse you bid me try;
While you with coldness check the flame
That should the sprightly thought supply.
Love, Love's the only genuine fire
Can raise and quicken what we say:
The mercury still rises higher,
As sovereign Beauty warms the day.
Can raise and quicken what we say:
The mercury still rises higher,
As sovereign Beauty warms the day.
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But from a brain that Scorn has chill'd
Such feeble wit can only rise
As, like the fire that damp grounds yield
By night, but faintly gleams, and dies.
Such feeble wit can only rise
As, like the fire that damp grounds yield
By night, but faintly gleams, and dies.
Thus whilst your slave's desires you starve,
You to your own, fair Maid, say “Nay;”
For you must love without reserve,
To make me able to obey.
You to your own, fair Maid, say “Nay;”
For you must love without reserve,
To make me able to obey.
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