MondayMay 19, 2025
Quotes: 53419 Authors: 9969
Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
'T is now the summer of your youth. Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.
The maid who modestly conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals; Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.
Can't I another's face commend, And to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead lowers, As if her merit lessen'd yours?
Labour for his pains.
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