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HOURS OF IDLENESS.
ON THE EYES OF MISS A—— H——[1]
Anne's Eye is liken'd to the Sun,
From it such Beams of Beauty fall;
And this can be denied by none,
For like the Sun, it shines on All.
Then do not admiration smother,
Or say these glances don't become her;
To you, or I, or any other
Her Sun, displays perpetual Summer.[2]
January 14, 1807.
TO A VAIN LADY.[3]
1.
Ah, heedless girl! why thus disclose
What ne'er was meant for other ears;
Why thus destroy thine own repose,
And dig the source of future tears?
- ↑ [Miss Anne Houson. From an autograph MS. at Newstead, now for the first time printed.]
- ↑ [Compare, for the same simile, the lines "To Edward Noel Long, Esq.," p. 187, ante.
- ↑ [To A Young Lady (Miss Anne Houson) whose vanity induced her to repeat the compliments paid her by some young men of her acquaintance.—[MS. Newstead.]
