English poem
Written in a LADY's Table-Book
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
With what strange Raptures would my Soul be Blest, Were but her Book an Emblem of her Breast? As I from That all former Marks efface, And, uncontroul'd, put new ones in their Place; So might I chace all others from her Heart, And my own Image in the stead impart. But, ah! how short the Bliss would prove, if he, Who seiz'd it next, might do the same by me.