Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . AMBROSE PHILIPS 1675—1749. This butt of the wits could, as we see below, be occasionallysimple, pretty, and unaffected. To MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, in her MOTHERS ARMS, I J/aj, 1724. Timely blossom, infant fair,Fondling of a happy pair,Every morn and every nightTheir solicitous delight,Sleeping, waking, still at ease,Pleasing, without skill to please ;Little gossip, lithe and hale,Tattling many a broken many a tuneless song,Lavish of a heedless t
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . AMBROSE PHILIPS 1675—1749. This butt of the wits could, as we see below, be occasionallysimple, pretty, and unaffected. To MISS CHARLOTTE PULTENEY, in her MOTHERS ARMS, I J/aj, 1724. Timely blossom, infant fair,Fondling of a happy pair,Every morn and every nightTheir solicitous delight,Sleeping, waking, still at ease,Pleasing, without skill to please ;Little gossip, lithe and hale,Tattling many a broken many a tuneless song,Lavish of a heedless tongue ;Simple maiden, void of art,Babbling out the very abandoned to thy will,Yet imagining no ill,Yet too innocent to blush;Like the linnet in the the mother-linnets noteModuling her slender throat ;Chirping forth thy petty joys,Wanton in the change of the linnet green, in MayFlitting to each bloomy spray ;Wearied then and glad of rest,Like the linnet in the nest :—This thy present happy , in time, will be forgot :Other pleasures, other cares,Ever-busy Time prepares ;And thou shalt in thy d
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