Love
Song: Love Has Often Threaten'd War
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Love
LOVE has often threaten'd War
Beauty led up all the Fair
Yet stil my heart repell'd the Harms
Their cruelty intended
But when my Caelia took up Arms
Unable to resist her Charms
The Fort no longer I defended.
Strength and Wisdom useless prove.
Once to see her is to Love ;
Others in Time a heart may gain
By Treaty or Perswasion,
Their Conquests They by Siege obtain ;
You o'er my heart were born to reign
And bravely took it by Invasion.
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MLA
Prior, Matthew. “Song: Love Has Often Threaten'd War.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/257/.
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Prior, Matthew. “Song: Love Has Often Threaten'd War.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/257/.
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