Date: 1714, 1735
"Alas! 'tis so--'tis fix'd the secret Dart; / I feel the Tyrant [Love] ravaging my Heart."
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Date: 1720
"You'll weep, I know you will; no Iron Chains / Confine thy Heart, thy Breast no Oak retains."
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Date: 1720
"How savage must he be to learn such Ill! / And sure his very Soul it self was Steel."
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Date: 1720
"O'er steely Breasts, oft soothing Prayers prevail"
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Date: 1723
"How does this Tyrant lord it in thy Mind? / What Symptoms of his Empire do'st thou find?"
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Date: 1723
"For, trust me, Love (that Inmate of the Mind) / Is very much mistaken by Mankind / For which too often is misunderstood / The sudden Rage and Madness of the Blood."
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Date: 1723
"Does thy Soul sicken, while thy Body's sound?"
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Date: 1723
"Does in thy Thought some blooming Beauty reign, / Whose strong Idea mingles Joy with Pain?"
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Date: 1723, 1740
"Those slighted Favours which cold Nymphs dispense, / Mere common Counters of the Sense, / Defective both in Mettle and in Measure, / A Lover's Fancy coins into a Treasure."
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Date: 1723, 1740
Love is a "glorious Sun within our Souls, / Whose Influence so much controuls; / Ev'n dull and heavy Lumps of Love, / Quicken'd by [it], more lively move"
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