The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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Miss A---n---l's Circle.
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Miss A---n---l's Circle.
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In all the state of sovereign love,See, see the worshipp'd Goddess shine!
While crowding suppliants round her move,
And every hope, too hard, for mine.
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II
Easy and sprightly, near her, seeThe Son of titled L---n---le plead!
Without a sigh, he smiles his plea,
And brings a heart, too gay, to bleed.
III
Mark, next, a youth, more close, than he!'Tis C---r---l, in his dawn of day:
Softly bold, and humbly free,
His French adroitness paves the way.
IV
S---l---n no dangerous rival seems,While he, forsaking love for wit,
All unadoring, just, esteems,
Crows, claps his wings, and leaves the Pit.
V
In earnest struck, and sick, within,Young C---n with woes, would move;
Tells real pains, and thinks, to win
A Woman's heart by infelt love.
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VI
P---h's noble Duke, with shape, and air,Adorning dignity with grace,
From every look assaults the fair,
And carries courtship, in his face.
VII
In rear of these, and yet to come,Her namesake, next, his fate to prove,
Stops short, and turns, in sight of Rome,
And quits the Saints, to bow to love.
VIII
What has poor J---rn---n to hope,Dim-shining, in so bright a crowd?
Shall he, despairing, court a rope,
Or hopeless flame be still avowd?
IX
Hang mean distrust—The Charmer knows,What rapture dwells, in life and fire!
And never beauty wrongly chose,
That crown'd warm truth and met desire.
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