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THE APRON OF FLOWERS.
To gather flowers Sappha went,
And homeward she did bring
Within her lawny continent[1]
The treasure of the spring.
She smiling blush'd, and blushing smil'd,
And sweetly blushing thus,
She look'd as she'd been got with child
By young Favonius.
Her apron gave, as she did pass,
An odour more divine,
More pleasing, too, than ever was
The lap of Proserpine.
And homeward she did bring
Within her lawny continent[1]
The treasure of the spring.
She smiling blush'd, and blushing smil'd,
And sweetly blushing thus,
She look'd as she'd been got with child
By young Favonius.
Her apron gave, as she did pass,
An odour more divine,
More pleasing, too, than ever was
The lap of Proserpine.
- ↑ Continent, anything that holds, here the bosom of her dress.
741. THE CANDOUR OF JULIA'S TEETH.
- ↑ Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, conquered by the Romans, A.D. 273.
742. UPON HER WEEPING.
She wept upon her cheeks, and weeping so,
She seem'd to quench love's fire that there did glow.
She seem'd to quench love's fire that there did glow.
