Love

Sent to Miss Bell H—, with a Pair of Buckles

by John Cunningham 1729–1773

From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)

Love

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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Text from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO-TCP transcription (TCP K093533), Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766).

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