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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

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On the Curtain of his Mistress's Picture.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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On the Curtain of his Mistress's Picture.

1

VVonder-hider tell me why,
Thou deniest to our sight,
And forbid'st our longing eye,
from her most refulgent light.

2

Grand-usurper let us see,
Thy (too rich) concealed treasure,
That our fancies all with thee,
May perticipate in pleasure.

3

Cover-heaven, be but pleased,
Thy dark shadows to unfold,
Let our greedy sight be eased,
With thy more then orient gold.

4

No, we must not see what's under,
Thou wilt still deny our suite,
Least our eyes be struck with wonder,
And our wonder strike us mute.