Tixall Poetry/The Irresistible Beauty

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Tixall Poetry
edited by Arthur Clifford
The Irresistible Beauty by unknown author
4305885Tixall PoetryThe Irresistible BeautyArthur Cliffordunknown author

LVIII.

The Irresistible Beauty.


When busie fame ore all the plaine
Philena's praises rung,
And on their oaten pipes each swaine
Her matchles beauties sung;
The envious nimphs were forc'd to yield
She had the sweetest face;
No emulous disputes they held,
But for the second place.

Young Coridon, whose stubborne hart
Noe beauty ere could move,
But smil'd to heare of bow and dart,
And brav'd the god of love;
Would view this nimph, and pleas'd at first,
Such silent charmes to see,
With wonder gaz'd, then sigh'd, and curst
His curiosity.