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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INVITATION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON
First Line: Fair lady! Leave parade and show!
Last Line: "will yield thee pastime and repose."
Subject(s): Contentment
First Line: Fair lady! Leave parade and show!
Last Line: "will yield thee pastime and repose."
Subject(s): Contentment
"Fair Lady! leave parade and show!
O, leave thy courtly guise a while!
For thee the vernal breezes blow,
And groves and flowery valleys smile.
O, Lady! change thy splendid state!
With us a shepherdess abide!
Contentment dwells not with the great,
But flies from avarice and pride.
The groves invite thee, and our vale,
Where every fragrant bud that blows,
And every stream and every gale
Will yield thee pastime and repose."
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