Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FAIR TRAVELLER, by JOHN HUGHES (1677-1720)


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First Line: In young astrea's sparkling eye
Last Line: But leaves the forest in a flame.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


IN young Astrea's sparkling eye,
Resistless love has fixt his throne;
A thousand lovers bleeding lie
For her, with wounds they fear to own.

While the coy beauty speeds her flight
To distant groves from whence she came;
So lightning vanishes from sight,
But leaves the forest in a flame.





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