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PERPLEXITY.
A POEM.
1 Ye tender young virgins attend to my lay,
2 My heart is divided in twain;
3 My Collin is beautiful, witty, and gay,
4 And Damon's a kind-hearted swain.
5 Whenever my lovely young Collin I meet,
6 What pleasures arise in my breast;
7 The dear gentle swain looks so charming and sweet,
8 I fancy I love him the best.
9 But when my dear Damon does to me complain,
10 So tender, so loving and kind,
11 My bosom is soften'd to hear the fond swain,
12 And Collin slips out of my mind.
13 Whenever my Damon repeats his soft tale,
14 My heart overflows with delight;
15 But when my dear Collin appears in the vale,
16 I languish away at the sight.
17 'Tis Collin alone shall possess my fond heart,
18 Now Damon for ever adieu;
[Page 79]19 But can I? — I cannot from Damon thus part!
20 He's lov'd me so long, and so true.
21 My heart to my Damon I'll instantly bind,
22 And on him will fix all my care;
23 But, O should I be to my Collin unkind,
24 He surely will die with despair.
25 How happy, how happy with Damon I'd been,
26 If Collin I never had knew;
27 As happy with Collin, if I'd never seen
28 My Damon, so tender and true.
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Author: Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)
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pastoral
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Hands, Elizabeth, 1746-1815. The death of Amnon. A poem. With an appendix: containing pastorals, and other poetical pieces. By Elizabeth Hands. [Coventry]: Printed for the author, by N. Rollason, Coventry, M,DCCLXXXIX., 1789, pp. 78-79. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T141063) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [Dunston B 961 (1)].)
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Other works by Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)
- ABSENCE AND DEATH. A PASTORAL. ()
- ABSENCE. ()
- CONTENTMENT. ()
- CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. ()
- CRITICAL FRAGMENTS, ON SOME OF THE ENGLISH POETS. ()
- THE DEATH OF AMNON. A POEM. ()
- An ELEGY. ()
- An ENIGMA. ()
- An EPISTLE. ()
- The FAVOURITE SWAIN. ()
- FRIENDSHIP. An ODE. ()
- LEANDER AND BELINDA. A TALE. ()
- LOB's COURTSHIP. ()
- LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP. A PASTORAL. ()
- OBSERVATION ON THE WORKS of NATURE. ()
- OBSERVATION, On an EVENING. ()
- OBSERVATION. ()
- On a WEDDING. ()
- On an UNSOCIABLE FAMILY. ()
- On CONTEMPLATIVE EASE. ()
- On reading Pope's Eloiza to Abelard. ()
- On the Author's LYING-IN, AUGUST, 1785. ()
- A PASTORAL DIALOGUE. ()
- A PASTORAL SONG. ()
- A PASTORAL. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] ()
- PHILLIS TO DAMON. A SONG. ()
- A POEM, On the Supposition of an Advertisement appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poem, by a Servant Maid. ()
- A POEM, On the Supposition of the Book having been published and read. ()
- REFLECTION on MEDITATION. ()
- REFLECTION. ()
- The RURAL MAID in LONDON, To her FRIEND in the COUNTRY. An EPISTLE. ()
- A SONG. [Far from the woods, alas, I rove] ()
- A SONG. [When Chloe, smiling, gave consent] ()
- A SONG. [Ye swains cease to flatter, our hearts to obtain] ()
- THIRSIS AND DAPHNE. A POEM. ()
- To THIRSIS, On his signifying his intention to lay aside his Hautboy. ()
- The WIDOWER's COURTSHIP. ()
- WIT AND BEAUTY. A PASTORAL. ()
- Written on Their MAJESTIES coming to Kew. ()
- Written while the Author sat on a COOK of HAY. ()
- Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad HEIFER run through the Village where the Author lives. ()