<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457082" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Better Answer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dear Cloe, how blubber'd is that pretty Face? <br>Thy cheek all on fire, and thy hair all uncurl'd: <br>Pr'ythee quit this caprice; and (as old Falstaf says) <br>Let us e'en talk a little like folks of this world. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How can'st thou presume, thou hast leave to destroy <br>The beauties, which Venus but lent to thy keeping? <br>Those looks were design'd to inspire love and joy: <br>More ord'nary eyes may serve people for weeping. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be vexed at a trifle or two that I writ, <br>Your judgment at once, and my passion you wrong: <br>You take that for fact, which will scarce be found Wit: <br>Od's Life! must one swear to the truth of a song? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I speak, my fair Cloe, and what I write, shews <br>The diff'rence there is betwixt Nature and Art: <br>I court others in verse; but I love thee in prose: <br>And they have my whimsies; but thou hast my heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The god of us verse-men (you know child) the sun, <br>How after his journeys he sets up his rest: <br>If at morning o'er earth 'tis his fancy to run; <br>At night he reclines on his Thetis's breast. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So when I am weary'd with wand'ring all day, <br>To thee my delight in the evening I come: <br>No matter what beauties I saw in my way: <br>They were but my visits; but thou art my home. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then finish, dear Cloe, this pastoral war; <br>And let us like Horace and Lydia agree: <br>For thou art a girl as much brighter than her <br>As he was a poet sublimer than me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</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=457082" data-title="A Better Answer de Matthew Prior" data-description="Dear Cloe, how blubber'd is that pretty Face? Thy cheek all on fire, and thy hair all uncurl'd: Pr'ythee quit this caprice; and (as old Falstaf says) Let us e'en talk a little like folks of this world. How can'st thou presume, thou hast leave..."></div> </div> </div>

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