Love
The Statue of Venus sleeping
Love
PAssenger vexe not thy Mind
To make me mine Eyes unfold;
For if thou shouldst them behold,
Thine perhaps they will make blind.
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MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “The Statue of Venus sleeping.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/122/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “The Statue of Venus sleeping.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/122/.
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