English poem
Why will FLORELLA while I gaze
by Anonymous
Why will FLORELLA while I gaze, My ravish'd eyes reprove, And chide them from the only face They can behold with love?
To shun your scorn, and ease my care, I seek a nymph more kind, And while I rove from fair to fair Still gentle usage find,
But oh! how faint is every joy Where nature has no part: New beauties may my eyes employ, But you engage my heart.
So restless exiles doom'd to roam Meet pity every where; Yet languish for their native home. Tho' death attends them there