Love
To —— ——, on Seeing Her with a White Veil and a Rich Girdle
From Juvenile Poems
Love
Put off the vestal Veil, nor, oh!
Let weeping angels View it;
Your cheeks belie its virgin snow.
And blush repenting through it.
Put off the fatal zone you wear;
The shining pearls around it
Are tears, that fell from Virtue there,
The hour when Love unbound it.
Cite this poem
MLA
Moore, Thomas. “To —— ——, on Seeing Her with a White Veil and a Rich Girdle.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/104/.
Chicago
Moore, Thomas. “To —— ——, on Seeing Her with a White Veil and a Rich Girdle.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/moore/104/.
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