CORINNA TO LYCIDAS. Elizabeth Hands (née Herbert) 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. T141063 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 p. 90. [40],127,[1]p.; 8⁰.

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CORINNA TO LYCIDAS . Where'er my Lycidas shall turn his eyes , May pleasures spring , and lovely prospects ' rise ; While your Corinna , on the banks of Stower , In pensive sadness views each ripening flower : Why am I pensive ? all things else are gay , Fawns dance around , and harmless lambkins play ; Surrounding groves invite my steps to rove , Resembling that in which I learn'd to love ; They each returning morn , grow fresher still , And happy birds their leafy branches fill ; O lovely scenes ! but what are these to me ? Joy is no joy without society . If I a friend like Lycidas could find , To share my joys , or sooth my anxious mind ; Then morn and night , I'd tune my cheerful lay , Sing with the birds , and be more glad than they ; But while your absence I am doom'd to bear , Your fancied presence in my thoughts shall share ; I'll bless the hour in which our love began , And ever be as constant as I can .