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Poem by George Etherege
Song
LADIES, though to your conquering eyes
Love owes his chiefest victories,
And borrows those bright arms from you
With which he does the world subdue,
Yet you yourselves are not above
The empire nor the griefs of love.
Then rack not lovers with disdain,
Lest Love on you revenge their pain:
You are not free because you're fair:
The Boy did not his Mother spare.
Beauty 's but an offensive dart:
It is no armour for the heart.
George Etherege
George Etherege's other poems:- Song from Love in a Tub
- To a Very Young Lady
- A Drinking Song
- To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her
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Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou") Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales") Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear") John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay") Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary") George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing") Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart") Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking") Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?") Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape") Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower") Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear") Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now") Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year") George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death") Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour") Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen") Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly") Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne") Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun") William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love") Ann Radcliffe Song ("Life's a varied, bright illusion")
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