feem to my pain,
And hate me because I am true;
Yet, PHYLLIS, you love a falfe fwain,
Who has other nymphs in his view.
Enjoyment's a trifle to him,
To me what a heaven 'twould be!
To him but a woman you feem,
But, ah! you're an angel to me.
Those lips which he touches in hafte
To them I for ever could grow;
Still clinging around that dear waist
Which he spans as befide him you go.
That arm, like a lily fo white,
Which over his fhoulders you lay,
My bofom could warm it all night,
My lips they could prefs it all day.
Were I like a monarch to reign,
Were graces my subjects to be,
I'd leave them, and fly to the plain,
To dwell in a cottage with thee.
But if I must feel your difdain,
If tears cannot cruelty drown,
Oh! let me not live in this pain,
But give me my death in a frown.
E fhepherds and nymphs that adorn the gay plain,
Approach from your fports and attend to my ftrain;
Amongst all your number a lover fo true
Was ne'er fo undone with fuch blifs in his view.
Was ever a nymph fo hard-hearted as mine?
She knows me fincere, and the fees how I pine;
She does not disdain me nor frown in her wrath,
But calmly and mildly refigns me to death.
She calls me her friend, but her lover denies ;
She fmiles when I'm cheerful, but hears not my fighs.
A bofom
A bofom fo flinty, fo gentle an air,
Inspires me with hope, and yet bids me despair.
I fall at her feet and implore her with tears;
Her anfwer confounds, while her manner endears:
When foftly fhe tells me to hope no relief
My trembling lips blefs her in spite of my grief.
By night, when I flumber, ftill haunted with care,
I ftart up in anguish, and figh for the fair:
The fair fleeps in peace, may she ever do fo!
And only when dreaming imagine my wo.
Then gaze at a distance, nor farther aspire,
Nor think fhe could love whom the cannot admire :
Hush all thy complaining, and dying her flave
Commend her to heaven, and thyself to the grave.
E happy fwains whose hearts are free
From love's imperial chain,
Take warning and be taught by me
T' avoid th' inchanting pain;
Fatal the wolves to trembling flocks,
Fierce winds to bloffoms prove,
To careless feamen hidden rocks,
To human quiet love.
Fly the fair fex if bliss you prize,
The fnake's beneath the flower;
Who ever gaz'd on beauteous eyes
That tafted quiet more?
How faithlefs is the lover's joy!
How conftant is their care!
The kind with falfhood do destroy,
The cruel with despair.
WHEN your beauty appears
In its graces and airs,
All bright as an angel new dropt from the sky;
At distance I gaze, and am aw'd by my fears,
So ftrangely you dazzle my eye!
But when without art,
Your kind thoughts you impart,
When your love runs in blushes thro' every vein When it darts from your eyes, when it pants in your heart, Then I know you're a woman again.
There's a paffion and pride
In our fex, fhe reply'd,
And thus, might I gratify both, would I do;
Still an angel appear to each lover befide,
S AMORET with PHILLIS fat
One evening on the plain,
And faw the gentle STREPHON wait
To tell the nymph his pain,
The threatning danger to remove,
She whisper'd in her ear,
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