Love
To Amasia speaking an Extempore Verse
From Amasia (1700), Vol. I
You shoot such darts they cannot fail to hit,
You Charm with Beauty, and you Charm with Wit.
Thus by your Art you raise my envy more
Than all your Charms could my desires before.
Minerva's strife with the Fair Venus ends,
Both join'd in you, the Goddesses grow Friends.
Sweet is your form, and in your Verse we find,
The lovely Notions of as Sweet a Mind.
So softly smooth your Charming numbers flow,
Scarce can your own Fair Bosom smoother show.
You, like creative Heav'n your Labours Frame;
You spoke the Word, and at your Breath they came.
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Hopkins, John. “To Amasia speaking an Extempore Verse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/16/.
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Hopkins, John. “To Amasia speaking an Extempore Verse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/16/.
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