THough, Phillis, your prevailing charms
Have forc'd me from my Celia's arms,
That kind defence against all powers,
But those resistless eyes of yours:
Think not your conquest to maintain
By rigour and unjust disdain;
In vain, fair Nymph, in vain you strive,
For love does seldom hope survive.
A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons
About this Item
- Title
- A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Hobart Kemp ...,
- 1672.
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- Subject terms
- English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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"A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33851.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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Page 29
My heart may languish for a time,
Whilst all your Glories in their prime
Can justifie such cruelty
By the same force that conquer'd me.
When age shall come, at whose command
Those troops of Beauty must disband;
A Tyrants strength once took away,
What slave so dull as to obey!