Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets ::

Poems consisting of Epistles and Epigrams, Satyrs, Epitaphs and Elogies, Songs and Sonnets

With variety of other drolling Verses upon several Subjects. Composed by no body must know whom, and are to be had every body knows where, and for somebody knows what [by John Eliot]

Eliot, John

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A Ladies Roses that ever lookt rusty.

Carnation Roses on her feet still wither,
And being put on fresh i'th' Morn, ere Noon
They blasted are, do but the cause consider,
And then I know you'l leave to wonder soon.
Lucinas Roses, it is too well known,
Do grow within a yard o'th' burning Zone.

University of Virginia Library

A Ladies Roses that ever lookt rusty.