Versos English John Carr Impromptu Lines, Upon Anacreon Moore's Saying That He Disliked Singing To Men.

English poem

Impromptu Lines, Upon Anacreon Moore's Saying That He Disliked Singing To Men.

by (1793–1845)

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By Beauty’s caresses, like Cupid, half-spoil’d, Thus Music’s and Poesy’s favourite child Exclaim’d,—“’Tis, by Heaven! a terrible thing Before a he-party to sit and to sing!” “By my shoul! Master Moore, you there may be right,” Said a son of green Erin; “tho’ dear to my sight Are all the sweet cratures, call’d women, I swear, Yet I think we can feel just as well as the fair: Tho’ you’d bribe us with songs, blood and ’ounds! let me say, I’d not be a woman for one in your way.”