Poetical amusements at a villa near Bath

Miller, Anna Riggs (1741-1781)

VOLUME I.

POETICAL AMUSEMENTS, &c.

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SUBJECT. DANCING.

On the same.

SUBJECT, PAINTING. A Dream.

On the Pleasures of Society at Batheaston Villa.

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Ever brilliant, ever charming, I defy the power of time
To deprive me of adorers, tho' oft I'm purchas'd by a rhyme;

To possess my glowing beauties, poets would resign the bays;
Court and senate, still contending, sing my praise in various lays:
Midnight ball, nor opera, glitt'ring, without me afford no pleasure;
Yet joyless pass his anxious moments, who to me devotes his leisure.

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