William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Song: Why, lovely charmer, tell me, whySir Richard Steele (16721729)
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So very kind, and yet so shy?
Why does that cold forbiding air
Give damps of sorrow and despair?
Or why that smile my soul subdue;
And kindle up my flames anew?
By turns, to freeze, and fire my heart;
When I behold a face so fair,
So sweet a look, so soft an air;
My ravished soul is charmed all o’er;
I cannot love thee less, or more.