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SONNET by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759)

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN PHOEBE FORM'D A WANTON SMILE
Last Line: THE FABLED QUEEN OF LOVE.
Subject(s): LOVE;

WHEN Phoebe form'd a wanton smile,
My soul! it reach'd not here!
Strange, that thy peace, thou trembler, flies
Before a rising tear!

From midst the drops, my love is born,
That o'er those eyelids rove:
Thus issued from a teeming wave
The fabled queen of love.



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