Love
Pious Selinda goes to prayers
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Love
Pious Selinda goes to prayers,
If I but ask her favour;
And yet the silly fool's in tears,
If she believes I'll leave her.
Would I were free from this restraint,
Or else had hopes to win her:
Would she could make of me a saint,
Or I of her a sinner.
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Congreve, William. “Pious Selinda goes to prayers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/congreve/3/.
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Congreve, William. “Pious Selinda goes to prayers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/congreve/3/.
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