As one who rose from mean estate, Then grant, Melpomene, thy son ODE I. THE PAINS OF LOVE. ALTERED FROM BEN JONSON. VENUS, dost thou renew a fray Sweet Love's sour mother, him to school, A bosom apt for love and young desire Come, borne by bright-wing'd swans, and thus Revel in the house of Paulus Maximus; Since, noble, and of graces choice, For troubled clients voluble of voice, Will he advance the banners of thy war. Beneath a cedarn roof near Alba's mere. There twice a day, in sacred lays, Shall youths and tender maidens sing thy praise; The ground in cadence with their ivory feet. Delights, nor credulous hope of mutual joy; Nor with dew-dropping flowers to bind my brows. Flow my thin tears down these poor cheeks of mine? Or Tiber's rolling streams, I follow thee. |