FLUTTERING lovers, giddy boys, Sighing soft for Hymen's joys, Would you shun the tricking arts, Beauty's traps for youthful hearts, Would you treasure in a wife, Riches, which shall last through life; Would you in your choice be nice, Hear Minerva's sage advice. Be not caught with shape, nor air, Coral lips, nor flowing hair; Shape and jaunty air may cheat, Coral lips may speak deceit. Girls unmask'd would you descry, Fix your fancy on the eye; NATURE there has truth design'd, 'T is the eye, that speaks the mind. Shun the proud, disdainful eye, Frowning fancied dignity, Shun the eye with vacant glare; COLD INDIFFERENCE WINTERS THERE. Shun the eager orb of fire Gloating with impure desire; Shun the wily eye of prude, Looking coy to be pursued. From the jilting eye refrain, Glancing love, and now disdain. Fly the fierce, satiric eye, Shooting keen severity; For Nature thus, her truth design'd And made the eye proclaim the mind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARRIAGE by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE TEMPER (1) by GEORGE HERBERT PARADISI GLORIA by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS THE BLIND MAN by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 18 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT EAST SIDE MOVING PICTURE THEATRE - SUNDAY by MAXWELL BODENHEIM THE WANDERER: 1. IN ITALY: ONCE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON |