Poems on several occasions By William Broome ... The second edition, With large Alterations and Additions |
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To Belinda,
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To Belinda,
On her Apron embroider'd with Arms and Flowers.
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The list'ning Trees Amphion drewTo dance from Hills, where once they grew;
But you express a Pow'r more great,
The Flow'rs you draw not, but create.
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Behold your own Creation rise,And smile beneath your radiant Eyes!
'Tis beauteous all! and yet receives
From you more Graces than it gives.
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But say, amid the softer CharmsOf blooming Flow'rs, what mean these Arms?
So round the Fragrance of the Rose,
The pointed Thorn, to guard it, grows.
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But cruel you, who thus employBoth Arms and Beauty to destroy!
So Venus marches to the Fray
In Armour, formidably gay.
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It is a dreadful pleasing Sight!The Flow'rs attract, the Arms affright;
The Flow'rs with lively Beauty bloom,
The Arms denounce an instant Doom.
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Thus when the Britons in arrayTheir Ensigns to the Sun display,
In the same Flag are Lillies shown,
And angry Lions sternly frown;
On high the glitt'ring Standard flies,
And conquers all Things—like your Eyes.
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