Poem by Charlotte Dacre

Simile

THE little Moth round candle turning,
Stops not till its wings are burning:
So woman, dazzled by man's wooing,
Rushes to her own undoing.

1. Addressed to the Author in the Morning Herald
2. Love and Madness
3. The Orphan's Curse
4. The Folly of Life
5. The Musing Maniac

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