The Triumph Of Pleasure (Charlotte Dacre Poems)
"BEAUTY reclin'd beneath the shade; Blooming Health before her play'd; Her golden tresses kissed the wind. Meek Content, with placid ...
"BEAUTY reclin'd beneath the shade; Blooming Health before her play'd; Her golden tresses kissed the wind. Meek Content, with placid ...
"The winds whistled loud the bleak caverns among, The nightingale fearfully lower'd her song, The moon in dark vapors retir'd; ...
"SWEEP on, ye winds-congenial billows roar, As, lost, I wander on your dubious shore; In sad review each shudd'ring vision ...
"AH! poor negro Sadi, what sorrows, what anguish Oppress the lone victim fate dooms for a slave! What eye or ...
"THE breeze was hush'd; the modest moon-beam slept On the green bosom of the treach'rous wave; The lover Marli wander'd ...
"ROSY Bacchus and Pallas once had an affray, Where neither would precedence yield; For each seem'd determin'd on gaining the ...
"HOW sadly, sweet seraph, I mourn that I never, I ne'er was so happy thee living to know! How sadly ...
"AH, mock not me! for you have never lov'd, Nor have you e'er, like me, its sorrows prov'd, Nor have ...
"WILD thro' the desert woods Alzira flew! Her robe disorder'd hung; Wet were her locks from midnight's chilly dew, Her ...
"YOU tell me, fair one, that you ne'er can love, And seem with scorn to mock the dangerous fire; But ...
"OH, lovely youth! why seem thy cheeks so pale? Oh, lovely youth! why are thine eyes so hollow? Oh, live! ...
"I lay reclin'd, And weary of my fate, With joy I would have chang'd my wretched state; When on the ...
"(IMPROMPTU.) How dare you say that still you love? In truth you'll move my rage, Or, likelier far, my scorn ...
"OVER the moor a lady fair Took her way so sadly; Her face was pale, her bosom bare, Sweet she ...
"YOU tell me that you truly love: Ah! know you well what love does mean? Does neither whim nor fancy ...
"AVAUNT thee, soft Eloquence, exquisite harm! Nor longer thy poison impart, Nor longer endeavour, thou dangerous charm, To lure Sensibility's ...
"FULL well I know what love does mean, Full well its force and tyranny, And captive in love's chains have ...
"OH! Passion, seducer of heart and of soul! Thou transport tyrannic! half pleasure, half pain! Why consum'st thou the breast ...
"SINCE to hope for true love is but folly, And woman's the plaything of man, My soul sinks in deep ...
"THE greatest bliss Is in a kiss- A kiss of love refin'd, When springs the soul Without controul, And blends ...
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