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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=345228" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cloris Charmes</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dissolved by EUDORA.<br>Not that thy Fair Hand<br>Should lead me from my deep Dispaire,<br>Or thy Love, Cloris, End my Care,<br>And back my Steps command :<br>But if hereafter thou Retire,<br>To quench with Tears, thy Wandring Fire,<br>This Clue I'll leave behinde,<br>By which thou maist untwine<br>The Saddest Way,<br>To shun the Day,<br>That ever Grief did find.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First take thy Hapless Way<br>Along the Rocky Northern Shore,<br>Infamous for the Matchless Store<br>Of Wracks within that Bay.<br>None o're the Cursed Beach e're crost,<br>Unless the Robb'd, the Wrack'd, or Lost<br>Where on the Strand lye spread,<br>The Sculls of many Dead.<br>Their mingl'd Bones,<br>Among the Stones,<br>Thy Wretched Feet must tread.<br>The Trees along the Coast,<br>Stretch forth to Heaven their blasted Arms,<br>As if they plaind the North-winds harms,<br>And Youthful Verdure lost.<br>There stands a Grove of Fatal Ewe,<br>Where Sun nere pierc't, nor Wind ere blew.<br>In it a Brooke doth fleet,<br>The Noise must guide thy Feet,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For there's no Light,<br>But all is Night,<br>And Darkness that you meet.<br>Follow th' Infernal Wave,<br>Until it spread into a Floud,<br>Poysoning the Creatures of the Wood,<br>There twice a day a Slave,<br>I know not for what Impious Thing,<br>Bears thence the Liquor of that Spring.<br>It adds to the sad Place,<br>To hear how at each Pace,<br>He curses God,<br>Himself, his Load,<br>For such his Forlorn Case.<br>Next make no Noyse, nor talk,<br>Until th' art past a Narrow Glade,<br>Where Light does only break the Shade;<br>'Tis a Murderers Walk.<br>Observing this thou need'st not fear,<br>He sleeps the Day or Wakes elsewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though there's no Clock or Chime,<br>The Hour he did his Crime,<br>His Soul awakes,<br>His Conscience quakes<br>And warns him that's the Time.<br>Thy Steps must next advance,<br>Where Horrour, Sin, and Spectars dwell,<br>Where the Woods Shade seems turn'd Hell,<br>Witches here Nightly Dance,<br>And Sprights joyn with them when they call,<br>The Murderer dares not view the Ball.<br>For Snakes and Toads conspire,<br>To make them up a Quire.<br>And for their Light,<br>And Torches bright,<br>The Fiends dance all on fire.<br>Press on till thou descrie<br>Among the Trees sad, gastly, wan,<br>Thinne as the Shadow of a Man,<br>One that does ever crie,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is not; and she ne're will be,<br>Despair and Death come swallow me,<br>Leave him; and keep thy way,<br>No more thou now canst stray<br>Thy Feet do stand,<br>In Sorrows Land,<br>It's Kingdomes every way.<br>Here Gloomy Light will shew<br>Reard like a Castle to the Skie,<br>A Horrid Cliffe there standing nigh<br>Shading a Creek below.<br>In which Recess there lies a Cave,<br>Dreadful as Hell, still as the Grave.<br>Sea-Monsters there abide,<br>The coming of the Tide,<br>No Noise is near,<br>To make them fear,<br>God-sleep might there reside.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when the Boysterous Seas,<br>With Roaring Waves resumes this Cell,<br>You'd swear the Thunders there did dwell.<br>So lowd he makes his Plea;<br>So Tempests bellow under ground,<br>And Ecchos multiply the Sound!<br>This is the place I chose,<br>Changeable like my Woes,<br>Now calmly Sad,<br>Then Raging Mad,<br>As move my Bitter Throwes.<br>Such Dread besets this Part,<br>That all the Horrour thou hast past,<br>Are but Degrees to This at last.<br>The sight must break thy Heart :<br>Here Bats and Owles that hate the Light<br>Fly and enjoy Eternal Night.<br>Scales of Serpents, Fish-bones,<br>Th' Adders Eye, and Toad-stones,<br>Are all the Light,<br>Hath blest my Sight,<br>Since first began my Groans.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When thus I lost the Sense,<br>Of all the heathful World calls Bliss,<br>And held it Joy, those Joys to miss,<br>When Beauty was Offence :<br>Celestial Strains did read the Aire,<br>Shaking these Mansions of Despaire;<br>A Form Divine and bright,<br>Stroke Day through all that Night<br>As when Heav'ns Queen<br>In Hell was seen,<br>With wonder and affright!<br>The Monsters fled for fear,<br>The Terrors of the Cursed Wood<br>Dismantl'd were, and where they stood,<br>No longer did appear.<br>The Gentle Pow'r, which wrought this thing,<br>Eudora was, who thus did sing.<br>Dissolv'd is Cloris spell, <br>From whence thy Evils fell, <br>Send her this Clue, <br>'Tis there most due <br>And thy Phantastick Hell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anne+Killigrew">Anne Killigrew</a><div class=q>
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Not that thy Fair Hand
Should lead me from my deep Dispaire,
Or thy Love, Cloris, End my Care,
And back my Steps command :
But if hereafter thou Retire,
To quench with Tears, thy Wandring Fire,
This Clue I'll leave behinde,
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