Love
The Pleas'd Captive (Song)
From Lyric Poems, Made in Imitation of the Italians (1687)
Love
A Glorious Angel coming on the Wing,
From Heav'n descended near a River side,
Where me alone my Destiny did bring;
To view the pleasant Fields without a Guide;
A Net she'd laid drawn by a silken String,
So hid in Grass, it could not be espy'd,
There was I captive taken in her Snare,
But Cynthia's chains who would not chuse to wear!
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Ayres, Philip. “The Pleas'd Captive (Song).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ayres/8/.
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Ayres, Philip. “The Pleas'd Captive (Song).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/ayres/8/.
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