Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ODE WRITTEN AFTER READING SOME MODERN LOVE-VERSES, by JOHN SCOTT (1730-1783)


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ODE WRITTEN AFTER READING SOME MODERN LOVE-VERSES, by                    
First Line: Take hence this tuneful trifler's lays
Last Line: And dropped the tear on beauty's tomb.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Take hence this tuneful trifler's lays!
I'll hear no more the unmeaning strain
Of Venus' Loves, and Cupids' darts,
And killing eyes, and wounded hearts;
All flattery's round of fulsome praise,
All falsehood's cant of fabled pain.

Bring me the Muse, whose tongue has told
Love's genuine plaintive tender tale;
Bring me the Muse, whose sounds of woe
'Midst death's dread scenes so sweetly flow,
When friendship's faithful breast lies cold,
When beauty's blooming cheek is pale:

Bring these—I like their grief sincere;
It soothes my sympathetic gloom:
For, oh! love's genuine pains I've borne,
And death's dread rage has made me mourn;
I've wept o'er friendship's early bier,
And dropped the tear on beauty's tomb.





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