Love

Another Acrostic

by John Cunningham 1729–1773

From Poems, Chiefly Pastoral (1766)

Love

Where no ripen'd summer glows,
In the lap of northern snows;
Desarts gloomy, cold, and drear,
(Only let the nymph be there)
Wreaths of budding sweets would wear.

MAY would every fragrance bring,
All the vernal bloom of spring:
Dryads, deck'd with myrtles green,
Dancing, would attnd their queen:
Every flower that nature spreads,
Rising where the charmer treads!

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

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