English Poetry. Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent. Epigram 2. SInce first you knew my am’rous smart. Роберт Крэггз, граф Ньюджент.

Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent (Роберт Крэггз, граф Ньюджент)

Epigram 2. SInce first you knew my am’rous smart

SInce first you knew my am'rous smart,
Each day augments your proud disdain;
'Twas then enough to break my heart,
And now, thank heav'n! to break my chain.
Cease, thou scorner, cease to shun me!
Now let love and hatred cease!
Half that rigour had undone me,
All that rigour gives me peace.

Robert Craggs, Earl Nugent’s other poems:

1. Epigram 1. I Lov’d thee beautiful and kind
2. Epigram 5. THO’ cheerful, discreet, and with freedom well bred
3. Epigram 12. WE thought you without titles great
4. Epigram 10. WHILE Lucy, chaste as mountain snows
5. Epigram 14. TOM thought a wild profusion great

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