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EPIGRAM XIII.
1 LOvely shines thy wedded fair,
2 Gentle as the yielding air;
3 Cheering as the solar beam,
4 Soothing as the fountain-stream.
5 Why then, jealous husband, rail?
6 All may breathe the ambient gale,
7 Bask in heaven's diffusive ray,
8 Drink the streams that pass away.
9 All may share unless'ning joy,
10 Why then jealous, peevish boy?
11 Water, air, and light confine,
12 Ere thou think'st her only thine.
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Themes:
sex; relations between the sexes; beauty
Genres:
epigram
References:
DMI 22450
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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 238. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)
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Other works by Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent
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- EPIGRAM II. ()
- EPIGRAM III. ()
- EPIGRAM IV. Upon the Bust of English worthies, at Stow. ()
- EPIGRAM V. ()
- EPIGRAM VI. ()
- EPIGRAM VII. ()
- EPIGRAM VIII. On Mrs. PENELOPE. ()
- EPIGRAM IX. On one who first abused, and then made love to a LADY. ()
- EPIGRAM X. ()
- EPIGRAM XI. ()
- EPIGRAM XII. ()
- EPIGRAM XIV. ()
- EPIGRAM XV. To CLARISSA. ()
- EPIGRAM XVI. ()
- EPIGRAM [XVII.] ()
- An EPISTLE to a LADY. ()
- An EPISTLE to Mr. POPE. ()
- EPISTLE to POLLIO, from the Hills of HOWTH in IRELAND. ()
- An Epistle to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount CORNBURY. ()
- An EPISTLE. ()
- An INSCRIPTION on the TOMB, Raised to the memory of the author's father, and of others his ancestors. ()
- An ODE to MANKIND. Address'd to the Prince. ()
- An Ode to the Right Honourable the Lord LONSDALE. ()
- An ODE to WILLIAM PULTNEY, Esq; ()
- An ODE. ()
- An ODE. ()
- An ODE. ()
- To CLARISSA. ()
- VERSES to CAMILLA. ()