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SYLVIA AND ARMEDA.
ARMEDA.
1 WHY dost thou Sylvia pensive sit?
2 Why hangs that cloud upon thy brow?
3 Oft hast thou cheer'd us by thy wit,
4 Why thus reserv'd and sullen now?
5 Hast thou thy little lap-dog lost?
6 Can Celia's dress excite envy?
7 Is Flavia now the fav'rite toast,
8 Or dost thou for a lover sigh?
SYLVIA.[Page 148]
9 Be Flavia still the toast of beaux;
10 Such trifles ne'er could give me pain:
11 But know the cause of all my woes,
12 The dear Alonzo's left the plain.
13 His music oft has charm'd the grove;
14 So soft his pipe, so sweet his air:
15 None heard, but felt the power of love,
16 'Mong all the nymphs assembl'd there.
17 Not Philomel's delightful strain
18 Could such extatic joys impart,
19 As did thy notes, O darling swain!
20 Which well can cheer the anxious heart.
21 His count'nance as Aurora bright,
22 His smiles gave joy to all around:
23 In virtue, wit, and all that's right,
24 Alonzo's equal ne'er was found.
25 To Anna's banks, alas! he's gone;
26 To Eccles fam'd for maidens fair;
27 And, to augment my grievous moan,
28 I dread some pow'rful rival there.
ARMEDA.[Page 149]
29 O Sylvia, all your fears are vain;
30 I've seen the nymphs display their art,
31 To captivate your charming swain;
32 But none can there engage his heart.
33 Insensible he seems to grow;
34 Defies the little armed boy:
35 From his lov'd horse, a fatal throw
36 Does more his anxious thoughts employ.
37 Than Cupid's arrows more severe,
38 The wounds he got his cares now prove:
39 Can Sylvia think it strange to hear
40 Alonzo quite forgets to love?
SYLVIA.
41 Forgets to love! that must not be;
42 Sure Sylvia would be wretched then.
43 Alonzo, when depriv'd of thee,
44 Rough winter still deforms the plain.
45 O hasten and dispel my fears!
46 The birds with thee more sweetly sing.
47 O crown with joy revolving years!
48 Thy presence gives perpetual spring.
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Author: Janet Little (later Richmond)
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Little, Janet, 1759-1813. The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792, pp. [147]-149. (ESTC T126549) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Library of the University of California, Los Angeles.)
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Other works by Janet Little (later Richmond)
- AN ACROSTIC UPON A YOUNG WOMAN, WRITTEN BY HER LOVER. ()
- ALCANZAR. ()
- ALMEDA AND FLAVIA. ()
- AMANDA: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. —, PERSONATING HER HUSBAND. ()
- ANOTHER EPISTLE TO NELL. ()
- THE CAPTIVATED SOLDIER. ()
- CELIA AND HER LOOKING GLASS. ()
- COLIN AND ALEXIS. ()
- DAMON AND PHILANDER. ()
- THE ENVIED KISS. ()
- AN EPISTLE TO A LADY. November, 1789. ()
- AN EPISTLE TO MR. ROBERT BURNS. ()
- EPISTLE TO NELL, WROTE FROM LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
- AN EXTEMPORARY ACROSTIC. ()
- THE FICKLE PAIR. ()
- FROM ALONZO TO DELIA. ()
- FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. ()
- FROM DELIA TO ALONZO. WHO HAD SENT HER A SLIGHTING EPISTLE. ()
- FROM FLAVIA TO CARLOS. ()
- FROM PHILANDER TO EUMENES. ()
- FROM SNIPE, A FAVOURITE DOG, TO HIS MASTER. May, 1791. ()
- GIVEN TO A LADY WHO ASKED ME TO WRITE A POEM. ()
- LOTHARIO. ()
- THE LOTTERY TICKET. ()
- LUCINA: AN ELEGY. ()
- THE MONTH'S LOVE. ()
- NELL'S ANSWER. ()
- ON A GENTLEMAN'S PROPOSING TO TRAVEL 300 MILES TO SEE J—. H—. ESQ.'S CHILD. ()
- ON A VISIT TO MR. BURNS. ()
- ON AN UNLOOKED-FOR SEPARATION FROM A FRIEND. ()
- ON HALLOWEEN. ()
- ON HAPPINESS. ()
- ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS. ()
- ON SEEING MR. — BAKING CAKES. ()
- ON THE BIRTH OF J—. H—. ESQ.'S SON. NOVEMBER 15, 1790. ()
- ON THE DEATH OF J—. H—. ESQ. JUNE, 1790. ()
- ON THE SPRING. ()
- A POEM ON CONTENTMENT. INSCRIBED TO JANET NICOL, A POOR OLD WANDERING WOMAN, WHO LIVES BY THE WALL AT LOUDOUN AND USED SOMETIMES TO BE VISITED BY THE COUNTESS. ()
- THE RIVAL SWAINS. ()
- TO A LADY WHO SENT THE AUTHOR SOME PAPER WITH A READING OF SILLAR'S POEMS. ()
- TO A LADY, A PATRONESS OF THE MUSES, ON HER RECOVERY FROM SICKNESS. ()
- TO A YOUNG MAN UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH FOR FORGERY. FROM HIS MISTRESS. ()
- TO HOPE. ()
- TO MY AUNTY. ()
- TO NELL WHEN AT MOFFAT WELL. ()
- TO THE COUNTESS OF LOUDOUN. ()
- TO THE PUBLIC. ()
- THE UNFORTUNATE RAMBLER. ()
- UPON A YOUNG LADY'S BREAKING A LOOKING-GLASS. ()
- UPON A YOUNG LADY'S LEAVING LOUDOUN CASTLE. ()
- VERSES WRITTEN ON A FOREIGNER'S VISITING THE GRAVE OF A SWISS GENTLEMAN, BURIED AMONG THE DESCENDENTS OF SIR WILLIAM WALLACE, GUARDIAN OF SCOTLAND IN THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. ()
- WILLIAM AND MARY. ()
- WRITTEN JANUARY FIRST, 1792. ()
- A YOUNG LADY'S LAMENTATION FOR THE LOSS OF HER SISTER BY MARRIAGE. ()
- THE YOUNG MAN'S RESOLUTION. ()