English poem
Sent to Miss BELL H—, with a Pair of Buckles
by John Cunningham (1501–1591)
Happy trifles, can ye bear Sighs of fondness to the fair? If your pointed tongues can tell, How I love my charming Bell: Fondly take a lover's part; Plead the anguish of my heart.
Go—ye trifles—gladly fly, (Graci us in my fair one's eye) Fly—your envy'd bliss to meet; Fly, and kiss the charmer's feet.
Happy there, with waggish play, Tho' you revel day by day, Like the donor, every night, (Robb'd of his supreme delight) To subdue your wanton pride, Useless, you'll be thrown aside.
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- PROLOGUE to the RECRUITING OFFICER. Spoke at Shrewsbury, where Mr FARQUHAR is said to have wrote that Comedy
- STANZAS On the Death of his MAJESTY King GEORGE II
- STANZAS ON THE FORWARDNESS of SPRING
- The Contemplatist: a Night Piece
- The DANCE. ANACREONTIC