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[Page 39]
The QUESTION.
1 SINCE freed from Love's enchanting Pains,
2 Your Heart no longer wears my Chains;
3 Since the gay Folly charms no more,
4 And all the dear Delusion's o'er:
5 Yet tell me, Damon, do you prove
6 In Freedom, Joys so pure as Love?
7 Alike unfelt its Pains or Sweets,
8 Your Heart an equal Measure beats:
9 No longer Hope and Fear maintain
10 Within your Breast a doubtful Reign:
11 Unpleas'd, nor caring if you please,
12 Lost in a dull inactive Ease.
13 Since then for this you could forego
14 The Lover's sweetly-pleasing Woe;
[Page 40]15 Forsake those bright enliv'ning Fires,
16 Gay Hopes, and elegant Desires;
17 The mutual Wish, the equal Flame,
18 The Sorrows, Fears, and Hopes, the same.
19 Oh say, what Joys can Freedom boast,
20 Like those sweet Torments you have lost.
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Author: Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
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Lennox, Charlotte, ca. 1729-1804. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Young Lady. London: printed for, and sold by S. Paterson, 1747, pp. 39-40. [8],88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T139692; OTA K110146.000) (Page images digitized from microfilm of a copy in the Bodleian Library [G.Pamph. 1289 (14)].)
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Other works by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
- The ADVICE, An ODE. ()
- AMINTA and DELIA. A PASTORAL. ()
- ARDELIA to FLAVIA, An EPISTLE. ()
- The ART of COQUETTRY. ()
- The DREAM. ()
- ENVY. A SATIRE. ()
- An EPISTLE TO MONESES, IN IMITATION of OVID. ()
- A HYMN to VENUS, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- In Answer to Consolatory Verses wrote by a Friend. ()
- THE LANGUAGE of the EYES TO LADY J— F—. ()
- An ODE To SLEEP ()
- An ODE, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- An ODE. ()
- ON A LADY's Singing. ()
- On reading HUTCHISON on the PASSIONS. ()
- A PARODY ON AN ODE of HORACE, As TRANSLATED by Mr. FARQUHAR. ()
- A PASTORAL, FROM THE SONG of SOLOMON. ()
- PHILANDER. ()
- THE RIVAL NYMPHS. A TALE. ()
- SHALLUM to HILPAH, An EPISTLE. From the SPECTATOR. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- TO A LADY Singing. ()
- To AURELIA, on her attempting to write Verses. ()
- To FLAVIA, An ODE. ()
- To MIRA. Inviting her to a RETREAT in the COUNTRY. ()
- TO MONESES Singing. ()
- Verses wrote extempore on a Gentleman's playing on the Flute. ()