Poems and Songs by Thomas Flatman. The Fourth Edition with many Additions and Amendments |
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Urania to her Friend Parthenissa.
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Urania to her Friend Parthenissa.
A DREAM.
In a soft Vision of the night,My Fancy represented to my sight
A goodly gentle Shade;
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But the surprizing sweetness of it's Face
Made me amaz'd, made me afraid:
I found a secret shivering in my heart,
Such as Friends feel that Meet or Part:
Approaching nearer with a timerous eye,
Is then my Parthenissa Dead, said I?
Ah Parthenissa! if thou yet are kind,
As kind as when like me, Thou mortal wert,
When thou, and I had equal share in either's heart,
How canst thou bear that I am left behind!
Dear Parthenissa! O those pleasant hours,
That blest our innocent Amours!
When in the common Treasury of one Breast,
All that was Thine or Mine did rest.
Dear Parthenissa!—Friend! what shall I say?
Ah speak to thy Urania!
O envious Death! nothing but thee I fear'd,
No other Rival could estrange
Her Soul from mine or make a Change.
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And overwhelm'd my self in tears:
But Parthenissa smil'd, and then she disappear'd.
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