A new collection of Original poems Never Printed in any miscellany. By the Author of Sir Walter Raleigh [i.e. George Sewell] |
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TO A LADY on the First of MAY. |
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TO A LADY on the First of MAY.
The fairest Month of the fair Year,
Like thy own Beauty fresh and clear,
Presents thee on this happy Day,
With the First-Fruits of Infant May.
Like thy own Beauty fresh and clear,
Presents thee on this happy Day,
With the First-Fruits of Infant May.
For where should Flora spread her Sweets,
But where she equal Fragrance meets?
To thee their Breath the Zephyrs bring,
And rob again to make the Spring.
How happy is the Youth that sips
The tasteful Nectar of thy Lips?
Hyblæan Store! Partition sweet!
See now the Sister-Corals meet!
But where she equal Fragrance meets?
To thee their Breath the Zephyrs bring,
And rob again to make the Spring.
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The tasteful Nectar of thy Lips?
Hyblæan Store! Partition sweet!
See now the Sister-Corals meet!
Now they divide again—then kiss,
Each senseless of the other's bliss.
O! what a glorious Theft it were,
To steal the Balm that lodges there.
Flora, it more than May would cost,
But to repair what One Kiss lost.
Each senseless of the other's bliss.
O! what a glorious Theft it were,
To steal the Balm that lodges there.
Flora, it more than May would cost,
But to repair what One Kiss lost.
| A new collection of Original poems | |