Love
Sonnet
Love
When Phoebe form'd a wanton smile,
My soul, it reach'd not here!
Strange that thy peace, thou trembler, flies
Before a rising tear!
From midst the drops my love is born,
That o'er those eyelids rove:
Thus issu'd from a teeming wave
The fabled queen of love.
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Collins, William. “Sonnet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/collins/21/.
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Collins, William. “Sonnet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/collins/21/.
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