Amorea, The Lost Lover Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin |
To the Muses.
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Amorea, The Lost Lover | ||
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To the Muses.
Muses I do invoke you to inspire,
And grant to me your great and holy aid,
That in my fancies so it may be said,
I favour win, favour'd by your Atire.
And grant to me your great and holy aid,
That in my fancies so it may be said,
I favour win, favour'd by your Atire.
Yet how, or what I shall insist upon,
Or on what subject I should first begin,
Against the Muses, sure it is a sin
For me to speak, or think of Hellicon.
Or on what subject I should first begin,
Against the Muses, sure it is a sin
For me to speak, or think of Hellicon.
My barren Muse unfit to entertain,
Or to assume the name of Poetrie,
Although I have presum'd a libertie
My tired mind from Prose a while to wean.
Or to assume the name of Poetrie,
Although I have presum'd a libertie
My tired mind from Prose a while to wean.
But if the Muses grant their influence
And will my naked fancy but protect
All I shall do is wholy to project
A way to make them a large recompence;
And all the praise that comes (if any be)
Is due unto them for inspiring me.
And will my naked fancy but protect
All I shall do is wholy to project
A way to make them a large recompence;
And all the praise that comes (if any be)
Is due unto them for inspiring me.
Amorea, The Lost Lover | ||