• “Smile and never heed me”

    Though, when other maids stand by,
    I may deign thee no reply,
    Turn not then away, and sigh,—
        Smile, and never heed me!
    If our love, indeed, be such
    As must thrill at every touch,
    Why should others learn as much?—
        Smile, and never heed me!

    Even if, with maiden pride,
    I should bid thee quit my side,
    Take...

    Charles Swain

  • Her smile was shaped like other smiles —

    Her smile was shaped like other smiles —

    The Dimples ran along —

    And still it hurt you, as some Bird

    Did hoist herself, to sing,

    Then recollect a Ball, she got —

    And hold upon the Twig,

    Convulsive, while the Music broke —

    Like Beads — among the Bog —

  • I Came to buy a smile — today —

    I Came to buy a smile — today —

    But just a single smile —

    The smallest one upon your face

    Will suit me just as well —

    The one that no one else would miss

    It shone so very small —

    I'm pleading at the "counter" — sir —

    Could you afford to sell —

    I've Diamonds — on my fingers —...

  • Sir Joshua praised Rubens with a Smile


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    Sir Jo[s]hua praised Rubens with a Smile

    By Calling his the ornamental Style

    And yet his praise of Flaxman was the smartest

    When he calld him the Ornamental Artist

    But sure such ornaments we well may spare 5

    As Crooked limbs & louzy heads of hair

  • Without a smile — Without a Throe

    Without a smile — Without a Throe

    A Summer's soft Assemblies go

    To their entrancing end

    Unknown — for all the times we met —

    Estranged, however intimate —

    What a dissembling Friend —