Female Poems On Several Occasions | ||
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[Give me leave to rail at you]
Give me leave to rail at you,
I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to say,
You shall not keep my Heart a day;
But alas against my will,
I must be your Captive still.
Ah be kinder then, for I
Cannot change, but would not die.
I ask nothing but my due:
To call you false, and then to say,
You shall not keep my Heart a day;
But alas against my will,
I must be your Captive still.
Ah be kinder then, for I
Cannot change, but would not die.
Kindness has resistless Charms,
All besides but weakly move;
Fiercest Anger it disarms,
And clips the wings of flying Love.
Beauty does the Heart invade,
Kindness onely can th'Heart persuade:
It guilds the Lovers Servile Chain,
And makes the Slave grow pleas'd again.
All besides but weakly move;
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And clips the wings of flying Love.
Beauty does the Heart invade,
Kindness onely can th'Heart persuade:
It guilds the Lovers Servile Chain,
And makes the Slave grow pleas'd again.
Female Poems On Several Occasions | ||