Love
A Wish
Love
TO forge to mighty Jove
The thunder-bolts above,
Nor on this Round below
Rich Midas skill to know,
And make all Gold I touch,
Do I desire, it is for me too much;
Of all the Arts practis'd beneath the Skie,
I would but Phillis Lapidarie be.
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MLA
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “A Wish.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/141/.
Chicago
Drummond, William, of Hawthornden. “A Wish.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drummond/141/.
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