<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=426351" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Corinna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This day (the year I dare not tell)<br>Apollo play'd the midwife's part;<br>Into the world Corinna fell,<br>And he endued her with his art.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Cupid with a Satyr comes;<br>Both softly to the cradle creep;<br>Both stroke her hands, and rub her gums,<br>While the poor child lay fast asleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Cupid thus: 'This little maid<br>Of love shall always speak and write;'<br>'And I pronounce,' the Satyr said,<br>'The world shall feel her scratch and bite.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her talent she display'd betimes;<br>For in a few revolving moons,<br>She seem'd to laugh and squall in rhymes,<br>And all her gestures were lampoons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At six years old, the subtle jade<br>Stole to the pantry-door, and found<br>The butler with my lady's maid:<br>And you may swear the tale went round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She made a song, how little miss<br>Was kiss'd and slobber'd by a lad:<br>And how, when master went to p—,<br>Miss came, and peep'd at all he had.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At twelve, a wit and a coquette;<br>Marries for love, half whore, half wife;<br>Cuckolds, elopes, and runs in debt;<br>Turns authoress, and is Curll's for life.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her common-place book all gallant is,<br>Of scandal now a cornucopia;<br>She pours it out in Atalantis<br>Or memoirs of the New Utopia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Swift">Jonathan Swift</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=426351" data-title="Corinna de Jonathan Swift" data-description="This day (the year I dare not tell) Apollo play'd the midwife's part; Into the world Corinna fell, And he endued her with his art. But Cupid with a Satyr comes; Both softly to the cradle creep; Both stroke her hands, and rub her gums, While the p..."></div> </div> </div>

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