StoryTitle("caps", "The Picture of Little T. C.
in a Prospect of Flowers") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "See with what simplicity ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This nymph begins her golden days! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "In the green grass she loves to lie, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And there with her fair aspect tames ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wilder flowers, and gives them names;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "But only with the roses plays, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L12", "", "And them does tell ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What colour best becomes them, and what smell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Who can foretell for what high cause ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "This darling of the gods was born? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Yet this is she whose chaster laws ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The wanton Love shall one day fear, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And, under her command severe, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "See his bow broke and ensigns torn. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L12", "", "Happy who can", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Appease this virtuous enemy of man! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "O then let me in time compound ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And parley with those conquering eyes, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Ere they have tried their force to wound; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ere with their glancing wheels they drive", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "In triumph over hearts that strive, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And them that yield but more despise: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L12", "", "Let me be laid, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where I may see the glories from some shade. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Meantime, whilst every verdant thing ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Itself does at thy beauty charm, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Reform the errors of the Spring; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Make that the tulips may have share ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of sweetness, seeing they are fair, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "And roses of their thorns disarm;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L12", "", "But most procure ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That violets may a longer age endure. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "But O, young beauty of the woods, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Whom Nature courts with fruits and flowers, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lest Flora, angry at thy crime ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To kill her infants in their prime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Do quickly make th' example yours; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L12", "", "And ere we see, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.", "") ?>
Poet("Andrew Marvell", "1621–1678") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>