English Poetry. William Shenstone. Hint from Voiture. Уильям Шенстон.

William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон)

Hint from Voiture

Let Sol his annual journeys run,
And when the radiant task is done,
Confess, through all the globe, 'twou'd pose him,
To match the charms that Celia shows him.

And should he boast he once had seen
As just a form, as bright a mien,
Yet must it still for ever pose him
To match - what Celia never shows him.

William Shenstone’s other poems:

1. The Invidious
2. On Miss M–‘s’s Dancing
3. Elegy. His Recantation
4. Song (I told my nymph, I told her true)
5. Elegy. On the Untimely Death of a Certain Learned Acquainance

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