Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ON BEAUTY: A RIDDLE. Resolve me, Chloe, what is this. Or forfeit me one precious kiss ? Tis the first offspring of the Graces, Bears different forms in different places, Acknowledged fine whereer beheld, Yet fancied finer when concealed. Twas Floras wealth, and Circes charm. Pandoras box of good and harm : Twas Mars wish, Endymions dream, Apelles draught, and Ovids theme. This guided Theseus through the maze, And sent him home with life and praise : But this
Two centuries of song : or, Lyrics, madrigals, sonnets, and other occasional verses of the English poets of the last two hundred years . ON BEAUTY: A RIDDLE. Resolve me, Chloe, what is this. Or forfeit me one precious kiss ? Tis the first offspring of the Graces, Bears different forms in different places, Acknowledged fine whereer beheld, Yet fancied finer when concealed. Twas Floras wealth, and Circes charm. Pandoras box of good and harm : Twas Mars wish, Endymions dream, Apelles draught, and Ovids theme. This guided Theseus through the maze, And sent him home with life and praise : But this undid the Phrygian boy. And blew the flames that ruined Troy. This shewed great kindness to old Greece, And helped rich Jason to the fleece. This through the East just vengeance hurled, And lost poor Antony the world. Injured, though Lucrcce found her doom. This banished tyranny from Rome ; For this Alcides learned to spin, His club laid down and lions skin : For this Apollo deigned to keep With servile care a mortals sheep. For this the father of the gods. Content to leave his high abodes,.
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