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A PASTORAL SONG.
1 One ev'ning in May, the sweet season of love,
2 Amintor, with heart light as air;
3 And his hat on one side, ran in haste to the grove,
4 To meet his dear Delia there.
5 He waited a little, impatient no doubt,
6 A minute to lovers is long;
7 Then snapping his fingers, he saunter'd about,
8 And thus of his Delia sung.
9 My Delia is mild as an April morn,
10 And fair as the blossoms in May
11 That sweeten the air, and enamel the thorn;
12 She's fairer, she's sweeter than they!
13 So chearful and sprightly, good humour'd and gay,
14 No passions e'er ruffle her breast;
15 In innocent frolicks she passes the day,
16 Till ev'ning invites her to rest.
17 Let prudes and coquets to their artfulness trust,
18 They ne'er shall have place in my arms;
19 Their wits and their arts do but give me disgust,
20 'Tis virgin simplicity charms.
[Page 81]21 My lovely dear Delia's unskill'd in their wiles,
22 And all the coquetry of love:
23 She thoughtlessly meets me, with innocent smiles,
24 And trips with me into the grove.
25 Just then the fair Delia came tripping along,
26 Displaying her innocent charms;
27 Amintor no longer continued his song,
28 But clasp'd the dear maid in his arms.
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Author: Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert)
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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. 80-81. [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. [As Thirsis and Daphne, upon the new hay] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Corydon, a blithesome swain] ()
- A PASTORAL. [Young Damon gay, a faithful-hearted swain] ()
- PERPLEXITY. A POEM. ()
- 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. ()