English Poetry. Mary Wortley Montagu. Advice. Мэри Уортли Монтегю.

Mary Wortley Montagu (Мэри Уортли Монтегю)

Advice

Cease, fond shepherd -- cease desiring
What you never must enjoy;
She derides your vain aspiring,
She to all your sex is coy.
Cunning Damon once pursu'd her,
Yet she never would incline;
Strephon too as vainly woo'd her,
Though his flocks are more than thine.
At Diana's shrine aloud,
By the zone around her waist,
Thrice she bow'd, and thrice she vow'd
Like the Goddess to be chaste.

Mary Wortley Montagu’s other poems:

1. Town Eclogues: Wednesday; the Tête à Tête
2. An Elegy on Mrs. Thompson
3. Epilogue to Mary Queen of Scots
4. To Mr. ——
5. Impromptu, to a Young Lady Singing

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

Ella Wilcox (Элла Уилкокс) Advice (“I must do as you do? Your own way I own”)

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