Love
A Card to Venus
From A Collection of Poems and Translations (Bath, 1758)
COME Venus, come, and make us blest,
Mine, and my Chloe's welcome Guest!
What tho' thy Cyprus should repine,
While in our happy Seat you shine,
Our happy Seat shall grateful prove,
And Incense shall reward thy Love.
Haste, and bring thy am'rous Boy,
And with him each attendant Joy,
Youth, and her thousand Charms, that lye
In dimpled Cheek, or laughing Eye;
Wit, whom the Pow'r of Beauty moves,
And Beauty, which true Wit approves.—
W[...]l make, if with this Train you come,
O[...] Ch[...] 's House the Graces' Home.
Codex Note
In imitation of the thirtieth ode of the first book of Horace. The source transcription marks a few illegible letters; they are shown in square brackets.
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