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English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

John Gay

275. Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing

LOVE in her eyes sits playing,

And sheds delicious death;

Love in her lips is straying,

And warbling in her breath;

Love on her breast sits panting,

And swells with soft desire:

Nor grace, nor charm, is wanting

To set the heart on fire.