Love
The Je Ne Sais Quoi
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Yes, I'm in love, I feel it now,
And Celia has undone me;
And yet I swear I can't tell how
The pleasing pain stole on me.
'Tis not her face which love creates,
For there no graces revel:
'Tis not her shape, for there the fates
Have rather been uncivil.
'Tis not her air, for sure in that
There's nothing more than common;
And all her sense is only chat,
Like any other woman.
Her voice, her touch might give th' alarm;
'Twas both, perhaps, or neither;
In short, 'twas that provoking charm
Of Celia altogether.
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Whitehead, William. “The Je Ne Sais Quoi.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitehead/1/.
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Whitehead, William. “The Je Ne Sais Quoi.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitehead/1/.
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