| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | To Mira | | By George Granville, Lord Lansdowne (1666–1735) |
| | | WHY, cruel creature, why so bent | |
| To vex a tender heart? | |
| To gold and title you relent; | |
| Love throws in vain his dart. | |
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| Let glittering fools in courts be great, | 5 |
| For pay let armies move: | |
| Beauty should have no other bait | |
| But gentle vows and love. | |
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| If on those endless charms you lay | |
| The value that’s their due, | 10 |
| Kings are themselves too poor to pay, | |
| A thousand worlds too few: | |
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| But if a passion without vice, | |
| Without disguise or art, | |
| Ah, Mira, if true love’s your price | 15 |
| Behold it in my heart. | | | | |
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