On imagining a Friend had treated the Author with Indifference. Mary Barber Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T42622 519 p. 45 Barber, Mary, ca. 1690-1757. Poems on Several Occasions [poems only]. London Printed for C. Rivington, at the Bible and Crown in St. Paul's Church-Yard 1734 p. 194. xlviii,283,[7]p.; 8⁰.

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On imagining a Friend had treated the Author with Indifference . Go , Jealousy , Tormentress dire ; On Lovers only seize : In Love , like Winds , you fan the Fire , And make it higher blaze . But Friendship's calmer , purer Joy Thou dost not heighten , but destroy .