Love
To a Lady Singing
From Amasia (1700), Vol. III
Love
Musick has Charms no Poetry can raise.
That silence, which your Song Commands, is praise.
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Hopkins, John. “To a Lady Singing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/137/.
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Hopkins, John. “To a Lady Singing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/137/.
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