Love

Chloe Divine

by Thomas D'Urfey 1653–1723

From The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, ed. A. T. Quiller-Couch (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900)

Love

Chloe’s a Nymph in flowery groves,
A Nereid in the streams;
Saint-like she in the temple moves,
A woman in my dreams.

Love steals artillery from her eyes,
The Graces point her charms;
Orpheus is rivalled in her voice,
And Venus in her arms.

Never so happily in one
Did heaven and earth combine:
And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone
That makes her so divine.

MLA

D'Urfey, Thomas. “Chloe Divine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/durfey/62/.

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D'Urfey, Thomas. “Chloe Divine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/durfey/62/.

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