Love Poems – Page 59
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A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
From harmony, from heavenly harmony, / This universal frame began: / When nature underneath a heap … -
Ah, how sweet it is to love!
Ah, how sweet it is to love! / Ah, how gay is young Desire! / And what pleasing pains we prove … -
Hidden Flame
I FEED a flame within, which so torments me / That it both pains my heart, and yet contents me: / 'Tis such a pleasing smart, and I so love it, … -
Song to a Fair Young Lady,going out of the Town in the Spring
Ask not the cause why sullen Spring / So long delays her flowers to bear; / Why warbling birds forget to sing, … -
Against Indifference
More love or more disdain I crave; / Sweet, be not still indifferent: / O send me quickly to my grave, … -
To a Lady asking him how long he would love her
It is not, Celia, in our power / To say how long our love will last; / It may be we within this hour … -
News
news from a foreign country came / As if my treasure and my wealth lay there; / So much it did my heart inflame, … -
The Sad Day
O THE sad day! / When friends shall shake their heads, and say / Of miserable me— … -
To Chloris
Ah, Chloris! that I now could sit / As unconcern'd as when / Your infant beauty could beget … -
The Libertine
A THOUSAND martyrs I have made, / All sacrificed to my desire, / A thousand beauties have betray'd …
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