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The Power of Love.
1 In this soft Amrous Age now Love is grown,
2 The modish Entertainment of the Town,
3 And the fond Beau loves his half score aday,
4 The Ladies too almost as Vain as they;
5 Spare me, ye cruel Powers, let me not prove,
6 The only Victim of a lasting Love.
7 I had my share three tedious Years a Slave,
8 And knew no Joys but what Phylaster gave;
9 When spite of Vows he prov'd unjust at last,
10 In distant Shades contending Months I past,
11 Thought I could see the Youth at my return,
12 With gay Indifference and Unconcern.
13 I long'd to know the Temper of my Heart,
14 And see if Passion could outlive desert;
15 But this my Curiosity has won,
16 To know alass! I am again undone:
17 I thought my self with Resolution bless'd,
18 But the soft Gods came crouding to my Breast.
19 The sporting Boys delight in Amorous Pain,
20 And flock'd in hast to Revel here again;
21 With downy Wings they Fan the couchant Fire,
22 And every Spark revives with fresh desire:
[Page 56]23 I Gaze and Sigh, and wish I'm just the same,
24 As the first Transports of my blooming Flame.
25 Almighty Love thy Power to me is known,
26 Without new Tortures I'll thy Godhead own;
27 But if I'm doom'd to Love may my Fate be,
28 (Rather than him) to love each Face I see.
29 Tis Sin against the custom of the Nation,
30 To love but one and all this while with Passion,
31 I'd rather be the shifting Fool in Fashion.
32 Then if I'm tortur'd with Variety,
33 I shan't be blam'd for Nonconformity.
About this text
Author: Sarah Fyge Egerton
Themes:
love
Genres:
heroic couplet
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Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 1668-1723. Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. By Mrs. S. F. [poems only] London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1703, pp. 55-56. [20],117,[3],15,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T125148) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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Other works by Sarah Fyge Egerton
- The Advice. ()
- At my leaving Cambridge August the 14th, Extempore. ()
- Delia to Phraartes on his mistake of three Ladies writing to him. ()
- Delia to Phraartes on his Playing Cæsar Borgia. ()
- The Emulation. ()
- Erato the Amorous Muse on the Death of John Dryden, Esq. ()
- Euterpe: The Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; An ODE. ()
- The Extacy. ()
- The Fatality. ()
- The Fate. ()
- THE Female Advocate, OR, An Answer to a late Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. ()
- The fond Shepherdess. A PASTORAL. ()
- The Gratitude. ()
- The Invocation. ()
- The Liberty. ()
- Love. ()
- An occasional Copy, in Answer to Mr. Joshua Barns, Extempore. ()
- An Ode on the Death of Mr. Dryden. ()
- On a Gentleman and his Wife visiting a Lady. He sleeping the while. Extempore. Spoke by Morpheus. ()
- On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th, 1697. on these Words, You have sold your selves for Nought. ()
- On Atheism. ()
- On being —— tax'd with Symony. ()
- On Friendship. ()
- On my leaving London, June the 29. ()
- On my leaving S—y. ()
- On my wedding Day. ()
- On the Author of Religion by Reason, or the Light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth. ()
- On the death of dear Statyra. ()
- On the Death of William III, King of England. ()
- On the Honourable Robert Boyl's, Notion of Nature. ()
- The Platonick. ()
- The Repulse to Alcander. ()
- The Retreat. ()
- Satyr against the Muses. ()
- Song on Madam S—. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- Terpsichore: A Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; extempore. ()
- To Alexis, on his absence. ()
- To Clarona drawing Alexis's Picture and presenting it to me. ()
- To Marcella. ()
- To Marina. ()
- To Mr. Norris, on his Idea of Happiness. ()
- To Mr. Yalden, on his Temple of Fame, Extempore. ()
- To my much valu'd Friend Moneses. ()
- To N. Tate, Esq; on his Poem on the Queen's Picture, Drawn by Closterman. ()
- To one who in Love, set a Figure. ()
- To One who said I must not Love. ()
- To Orabella, Marry'd to an old Man. ()
- To Philaster. ()
- To the Lady Cambell, with a Female Advocate. ()
- To the Queen. ()
- To Thyrsis on his Pastoral to Mr. Creech. ()
- The Vision. ()