<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396231" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To A Vain Lady</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah! heedless girl! why thus disclose<br>What ne'er was meant for other ears:<br>Why thus destroy thine own repose<br>And dig the source of future tears?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh, thou wilt weep, imprudent maid,<br>While lurking envious foes will smile,<br>For all the follies thou hast said<br>Of those who spoke but to beguile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Vain girl! thy ling'ring woes are nigh,<br>If thou believ'st what striplings say:<br>Oh, from the deep temptation fly,<br>Nor fall the specious spoiler's prey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dost thou repeat, in childish boast,<br>The words man utters to deceive?<br>Thy peace, thy hope, thy all is lost,<br>If thou canst venture to believe.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While now amongst thy female peers<br>Thou tell'st again the soothing tale,<br>Canst thou not mark the rising sneers<br>Duplicity in vain would veil? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">These tales in secret silence hush,<br>Nor make thyself the public gaze:<br>What modest maid without a blush<br>Recounts a flattering coxcomb's praise?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Will not the laughing boy despise<br>Her who relates each fond conceit -<br>Who, thinking Heaven is in her eyes,<br>Yet cannot see the slight deceit?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For she who takes a soft delight<br>These amorous nothings in revealing,<br>Must credit all we say or write, <br>While vanity prevents concealing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cease, if you prize your beauty's reign!<br>No jealousy bids me reprove:<br>One, who is thus from nature vain,<br>I pity, but I cannot love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">January 15,1807.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=396231" data-title="To A Vain Lady de Byron" data-description="Ah! heedless girl! why thus disclose What ne'er was meant for other ears: Why thus destroy thine own repose And dig the source of future tears? Oh, thou wilt weep, imprudent maid, While lurking envious foes will smile, For all the follies thou ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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