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Poems

By Thomas Philipott

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On a spark fastening on a Gentlewomans cheek.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On a spark fastening on a Gentlewomans cheek.

If this small spark which bore so thin a blaze,
Could in each part so much resentment raise,

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And to your cheek so much of anguish waft,
And on your skins unblemisht margent graft
Such signalls of its rigour; oh then deeme
What torments of a far more high esteeme,
My martyr'd heart must struggle with, which fries
In flames of Love, first kindled by your eyes.