The Works of Lord Byron Volume I Part 66

[Footnote 2: Mrs. Pigot's Cottage.]

[Footnote 3: The river Grete, at Southwell.]

[Footnote 4: Mary Chaworth.]

[Footnote 5: Compare the verses on "The Cornelian," p. 66, and "Pignus Amoris," p. 231.]

[Footnote 6: See note to "Pignus Amoris," st. 3, l. 3, p. 232.]

[Footnote i:

'--ye regal Towers'.

['MS. Newstead'.] ]

[Footnote ii:

'The gift I wear'.

['MS. Newstead'.]]

[Footnote iii:

'And since I must forbear to live, Instruct me how to die.'

['MS. Newstead']

TO----[1]

1.

Oh! well I know your subtle s.e.x, Frail daughters of the wanton Eve,-- While jealous pangs our Souls perplex, No pa.s.sion prompts you to relieve.

2

From Love, or Pity ne'er you fall, By _you_, no mutual Flame is felt, "Tis Vanity, which rules you all, Desire alone which makes you melt.

3

I will not say no _souls_ are yours, Aye, ye have Souls, and dark ones too, Souls to contrive those smiling lures, To snare our simple hearts for you.

4

Yet shall you never bind me fast, Long to adore such brittle toys, I'll rove along, from first to last, And change whene'er my fancy cloys.

5

Oh! I should be a _baby_ fool, To sigh the dupe of female art-- Woman! perhaps thou hast a _Soul_, But where have _Demons_ hid thy _Heart_?

January, 1807.

[Footnote 1: From an autograph MS. at Newstead, now for the first time printed.]

ON THE EYES OF MISS A----H----[1]

Anne's Eye is liken'd to the _Sun_, From it such Beams of Beauty fall; And _this_ can be denied by none, For like the _Sun_, it s.h.i.+nes on _All_.

Then do not admiration smother, Or say these glances don't become her; To _you_, or _I_, or _any other_ Her _Sun_, displays perpetual Summer. [2]

January 14, 1807.

[Footnote 1: Miss Anne Houson. From an autograph MS. at Newstead, now for the first time printed.]

[Footnote 2: Compare, for the same simile, the lines "To Edward Noel Long, Esq.," p. 187, 'ante'.]