English Poetry. Mary Chudleigh. Song. Мэри Чадли.

Song

Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?
The Heart you beg’s not worth possessing:
Each Look, each Word, each Smile’s affected,
And inward Charms are quite neglected:
Then scorn her, scorn her, foolish Swain,
And sigh no more, no more in vain.

Beauty’s worthless, fading, flying;
Who would for Trifles think of dying?
Who for a Face, a Shape, wou’d languish,
And tell the Brooks, and Groves his Anguish,
Till she, till she thinks fit to prize him,
And all, and all beside despise him?

Fix, fix your Thoughts on what’s inviting,
On what will never bear the slighting:
Wit and Virtue claim your Duty,
They’re much more worth than Gold and Beauty:
To them, to them, your Heart resign,
And you’ll no more, no more repine.

Mary Chudleigh’s other poems:

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Percy Shelley (Перси Шелли) Song (“Rarely, rarely, comest thou”)

Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Song (“Not the soft sighs of vernal gales”)

Charlotte Mew (Шарлотта Мью) Song (“Love love to-day, my dear”)

John Davidson (Джон Дэвидсон) Song (“THE boat is chafing at our long delay”)

Bryan Procter (Брайан Проктер) Song (“Here’s a health to thee, Mary”)

Mary Montagu (Мэри Монтегю) Song (“How happy is the harden’d heart”)

George Etherege (Джордж Этеридж) Song (“LADIES, though to your conquering eyes”)

Edgar Poe (Эдгар По) Song (“I saw thee on thy bridal day”) 1827

Aphra Behn (Афра Бен) Song (“O Love! that stronger art than wine”)

Emma Lazarus (Эмма Лазарус) Song (“Frosty lies the winter-landscape”)