Lib. 1. Epigr. CX.
De Issa Catellâ Publii.
Issa much to be preferr'd
To Catullus amorous Bird;
Chaster thou than Stella's Dove,
Yet fond as Girls when first they love.
Issa worth both Indies Treasure,
Issa Publius's Life and Pleasure.
Poems written on several occasions by N. Tate.
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- Title
- Poems written on several occasions by N. Tate.
- Author
- Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
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- London :: Printed for B. Tooke ...,
- 1684.
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- Occasional verse, English.
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Issa mourns if he complain,
Issa shares his Health and Pain.
All Night on his warm Neck she lies,
Not stirs till He's dispos'd to rise:
Unless constrain'd by Natures call,
And then the cleanly Animal;
Still wakes him with her gentle Moan,
Entreating to be handed down.
But passing other Vertues by,
Such is Issa's Modesty,
She ne'er cou'd love, tho' daily woo'd
By Shocks of Quality and Blood.
But mindful of her Mortal State
(Form nor Vertue's free from Fate)
To countermand the rigid Law,
Publius did her Picture draw,
Where Art with Nature so does strive,
You'd swear they're Pictures both, or both alive.