FLAVIA the least and slightest toy Can with resistless art employ: This fan in meaner hands would prove An engine of small force in love; Yet she with graceful air and mien, Not to be told or safely seen, Directs its wanton motions so That it wounds more than Cupid's bow. Gives coolness to the matchless dame, To every other breast -- a flame. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LINES TO A MOVEMENT IN MOZART'S E-FLAT SYMPHONY by THOMAS HARDY SONNET: 2. FEBRUARY AFTERNOON by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS IN LIGHTER VEIN by ELIZABETH KEMPER ADAMS EPITAPH ON THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SUSAN, COUNTESS OF MONTGOMERY by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) NOVEMBER by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT |