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Poem by Joseph Addison


To an Ill-Favored Lady


  [IMITATED FROM MARTIAL]

While in the dark on thy soft hand I hung,
And heard the tempting syren in thy tongue,
What flames, what darts, what anguish I endured!
But when the candle entered I was cured.



Joseph Addison


Joseph Addison's other poems:
  1. To Sir Godfrey Kneller, on his Picture of the King
  2. An Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
  3. A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, at Oxford
  4. The Lord My Pasture Shall Prepare
  5. To Mr. Dryden


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