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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CAUTION, by CATHERINE TROTTER COCKBURN First Line: Soft kisses may be innocent Last Line: Who for small favours sighs in vain. | |||
Soft kisses may be innocent, But ah! too easy maid, beware; Though that is all thy kindness meant, 'Tis love's delusive fatal snare. No virgin e'er at first design'd Through all the maze of love to stray; But each new path allures her mind, Till, wandering on, she lose her way. 'Tis easy ere set out to stay; But who the useful art can teach, When sliding down a steepy way, To stop, before the end we reach? Keep ever something in thy power Beyond what would thy honour stain; He will not dare to aim at more, Who for small favours sighs in vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHERE? by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON SPIRITUAL ISOLATION: A FRAGMENT by ISAAC ROSENBERG HERMES OF THE WAYS by HILDA DOOLITTLE AFTER THE BURIAL by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL JEANIE MORRISON by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL ON REFUSAL OF AID BETWEEN NATIONS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE OTHER WORLD by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE ON THE EXTINCTION OF THE VENETIAN REPUBLIC by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |
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