Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] With Portrait engraved by E. Stodart ... in two volumes |
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II. LOVE'S VANITY.
It is for you, dear love, I dress, and donSoft raiment, lace, and jewels of red gold,
To shine in your eyes only, and to hold
At the sword's point what was so dearly won.—
And so, and not for self's sake,—I put on
These pomps and vanities, which you behold
But scarcely mark! Ah, vain and manifold
Are Love's poor wiles, yet none are new,—not one!
For ladies ev'n as I,—long, long ago,
In some such eyes as yours to merit grace,
Twined chains of shining gold, and pearls in row,
And deck'd themselves in jewels and fine lace,
Above whose bones, to-day, rank burdocks grow,
Whilst cold winds sigh around their resting place!
| Poems by Violet Fane [i.e. M. M. Lamb] | |