Arts & Sciences

To the Countess of Dorset, Written in Her Milton

by Matthew Prior 1664–1721

From Poems on Several Occasions (1718)

Arts & Sciences

SEE here, how bright the first-born Virgin shone;
And how the first fond Lover was undone.
Such charming Words our beauteous Mother spoke.
As Milton wrote ; and such as Your's Her Look.
Your's the best Copy of th' Original Face,
Whose Beauty was to furnish all the Race :
Such Chains no Author could escape but He :
There's no Way to be safe, but not to See.

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Prior, Matthew. “To the Countess of Dorset, Written in Her Milton.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/57/.

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Prior, Matthew. “To the Countess of Dorset, Written in Her Milton.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/57/.

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