StoryTitle("caps", "To Chloris ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ah, Chloris! that I now could sit ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As unconcern'd as when ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your infant beauty could beget ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "No pleasure, nor no pain! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When I the dawn used to admire,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And praised the coming day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I little thought the growing fire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Must take my rest away. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Your charms in harmless childhood lay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Like metals in the mine;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Age from no face took more away ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Than youth conceal'd in thine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as your charms insensibly ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To their perfection prest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fond love as unperceived did fly,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And in my bosom rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My passion with your beauty grew, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Cupid at my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Still as his mother favour'd you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Threw a new flaming dart:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each gloried in their wanton part; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To make a lover, he ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Employ'd the utmost of his art— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To make a beauty, she.", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Charles Sedley", "1639–1701") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>