WHY DOES AZURE DECK THE SKY?

WHY does azure deck the sky?
'Tis to be like thy looks of blue.
Why is red the rose's dye?

Because it is thy blushes' hue.
All that's fair, by love's decree,
Has been made resembling thee!

Why is falling snow so white,
But to be like thy bosom fair?
Why are solar beams so bright?
That they may seem thy golden hair!
All that's bright, by love's decree,
Has been made resembling thee!

Why are Nature's beauties felt?

Oh! 'tis thine in her we see! Why has music power to melt?

Oh! because it speaks like thee! All that's sweet, by love's decree, Has been made resembling thee!

SWEET SEDUCER! BLANDLY SMILING.

SWEET seducer! blandly smiling,
Charming still, and still beguiling!
Oft I swore to love thee never,
Yet I love thee more than ever!

Why that little wanton blushing,
Glancing eye, and bosom flushing?
Flushing warm, and wily glancing,
All is lovely, all entrancing!

Turn away those lips of blisses-
I am poison'd by thy kisses!
*Yet, again, ah! turn them to me:
Ruin's sweet when they undo me!

Oh! be less, be less enchanting;
Let some little grace be wanting;
Let my eyes, when I'm expiring,
Gaze awhile, without admiring!

POEMS.

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POEMS.

CONCEAL'D WITHIN THE SHADY WOOD.

CONCEAL'D within the shady wood

A mother left her sleeping child, And flew, to cull her rustic food, The fruitage of the forest wild.

But storms upon her path-way rise,
The mother roams, astray and weeping;

Far from the weak appealing cries

Of him she left so sweetly sleeping.

She hopes, she fears; a light is seen,

And gentler blows the night wind's breath;
Yet no-'tis gone-the storms are keen,
The baby may be chill'd to death;