Love
Lisetta's Reply
From Poems on Several Occasions
SURE, Cloe just, and Cloe fair,
Deserves to be your only care :
But when you and she to-day
Far into the wood did stray,
And I happen'd to pass by,
Which way did you cast your eye ?
But when your cares to her you sing,
Yet dare not tell her whence they spring ;
Does it not more afflict your heart,
That in those cares she bears a part ?
When you the flowers for Cloe twine,
Why do you to her garland join
The meanest bud that falls from mine ?
Simplest of swains ! the world may see,
Whom Cloe loves, and who loves me.
Codex Note
Lisetta's answer to the poem before it: she asks whom he looked at when she passed in the wood, and tells him to see whom Cloe loves and who loves her.
Cite this poem
MLA
Prior, Matthew. “Lisetta's Reply.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/12/.
Chicago
Prior, Matthew. “Lisetta's Reply.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/12/.
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