My passion would lose by expression, And you too might cruelly blame; Since yours is the province of speaking, Then quickly why don't you discover? Did your heart feel such tortures as mine, I need not tell over and over, What I in my bosom confine. of Bute, states that the above poem was handed about as the sup["Lady M. W. Montagu, in a letter to her daughter, the Countess posed address of Lady Hertford to Lord William Hamilton, and that she herself wrote these verses attributed to Sir William Yonge." Park. Colin's answer has been printed as Sir William Yonge's.] COLIN'S ANSWER. LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU. Good Madam when ladies are willing, At least you should wait for our offers, You should leave us to guess at your blushing, And not speak the matter too plain; 'Tis ours to be forward and pushing; 'Tis yours to affect a disdain. That you're in a terrible taking From all your fond oglings I see! AS O'ER ASTERIA'S FIELDS I ROVE. WILLIAM SOMERVILLE. Born 1692-Died 1742. As o'er Asteria's fields I rove, But when I view the radiant queen PARAPHRASE UPON A FRENCH SONG. Venge moi d'une ingrate maitresse, WILLIAM SOMERVILLE, Kind relief in all my pain, Gild each gloomy thought with joy. Haste away, Haste away, Lash thy tigers, do not stay; If I view those eyes once more, See her move! With what a grace! Ye gods above! Is she not one of your immortal race? Fly ye winged Cupids! fly; Dart like lightning through the sky: Would ye in marble temples dwell, The beauteous goddess I adore! THE PARTING KISS. ROBERT DODSLEY. Born 1703-Died 1764. One kind kiss before we part, Yet, yet, weep not so my love, All my soul and all my heart, And every wish shall pant for you; One kind kiss then ere we part, Drop a tear and bid adieu ? [Dodsley was a well-known bookseller in Pall Mall, to which rank, encouraged by Pope, he rose from a gentleman's servant.] FANNY FAIR. To Fanny fair could I impart That beauty which has won my heart, She knows her power is all deceit, And wounds with ev'ry touch. At first when I beheld the fair, But as I would approach more near, Th' inchanting sight, the sweet surprise, One cruel look from those bright eyes [From the Tea Table Miscellany. Burns in his first letter to George Thomson, calls it insipid stuff and a disgrace to a collection of songs.' The Editor had great misgivings after such an opinion from such a man as Burns whether he should insert it--but as the poet says in his Dream: There's mony waur been o' the race, so he thought proper here to admit it.] |