[Page 270]

To CHLOE.

Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.

By the Same.
1 THE minutes, the hours, the days, and the years,
2 That fill up the current of Time,
3 Neither flowing with hopes, neither ebbing with fears,
4 Unheeded roll'd on to my prime.
5 In infancy prattling, in youth full of play,
6 Still pleas'd with whatever was new;
7 I bad the old cripple fly swifter away,
8 To o'ertake some gay trifle in view.
9 But when CHLOE, with sweetness and sense in her look,
10 First taught me the lesson of love;
11 Then I counted each step the wing'd fugitive took,
12 And bad him more leisurely move.
13 Stop, run-away, stop, nor thy journey pursue,
14 For CHLOE has gi'en me her heart:
15 To enjoy it thy years will prove many too few,
16 If you make so much haste to depart.
[Page 271]
17 Still, still he flies on — still, still let him fly
18 'Till he's tired, and panting for breath;
19 My love both his teeth and his scythe shall defy —
20 That can only be conquer'd by Death.

Text

  • TEI/XML [chunk] (XML - 50K / ZIP - 5.8K) / ECPA schema (RNC - 357K / ZIP - 73K)
  • Plain text [excluding paratexts] (TXT - 914 / ZIP - 727 )

Facsimile (Source Edition)

(Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Images

PDF

All Images (PDF - 1.4M)

About this text

Title (in Source Edition): To CHLOE. Written on my Birth-Day, 1734.
Author: Benjamin Hoadly
Themes: age
Genres: occasional poem
References: DMI 22586

Text view / Document view

Source edition

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. III. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], pp. 270-271. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.003) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

Editorial principles

The text has been typographically modernized, but without any silent modernization of spelling, capitalization, or punctuation. The source of the text is given and all editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. Based on the electronic text originally produced by the TCP project, this ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.