Foliage: Various Poems






YOUNG BEAUTY

     When at each door the ruffian winds
       Have laid a dying man to groan,
     And filled the air on winter nights
       With cries of infants left alone;
     And every thing that has a bed
       Will sigh for others that have none:

     On such a night, when bitter cold,
       Young Beauty, full of love thoughts sweet,
     Can redden in her looking-glass;
       With but one gown on, in bare feet,

       Can feel the joy of summer's heat.




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