 | New Poems by George Crabbe |  |
“All own the charms of her I love,
“She every gentle Being pleases,
“The wise & good such powers approve,
“For she amends the Heart she seizes.
“So by just Laws & wise Commands
“Great Kings improve ye conquer'd Lands.
“She every gentle Being pleases,
“The wise & good such powers approve,
“For she amends the Heart she seizes.
“So by just Laws & wise Commands
“Great Kings improve ye conquer'd Lands.
“Each rival Maid, when lost her Swain,
“Shows to my fairest full Submission,
“For back she sends the Heart again,
“Amended! by its pure Ambition,
“As ships, that strike on foreign shores,
“Return enrich'd by unexpected stores.
“Shows to my fairest full Submission,
“For back she sends the Heart again,
“Amended! by its pure Ambition,
“As ships, that strike on foreign shores,
“Return enrich'd by unexpected stores.
“Ev'n Wives themselves shall better deem
“Their Lords, by Charms like hers won over,
“And Maids their Lovers more esteem,
“As each have been my Charmer's Lover.
“‘If blind to her's, what canst thou see’,
“Will each demand, ‘in one like me?’”
“Their Lords, by Charms like hers won over,
“And Maids their Lovers more esteem,
“As each have been my Charmer's Lover.
“‘If blind to her's, what canst thou see’,
“Will each demand, ‘in one like me?’”
| New Poems by George Crabbe | |