Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 3 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

Chloe Divine

Chloe's a Nymph in flowery groves,

A Nereid in the streams;

Saint-like she in the temple moves,

A woman in my dreams.


Love steals artillery from her eyes,

The Graces point her charms;

Orpheus is rivall'd in her voice,

And Venus in her arms.


Never so happily in one

Did heaven and earth combine:

And yet 'tis flesh and blood alone

That makes her so divine.

— Thomas D'Urfey
1653–1723   


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