| Poems by Women |
TO SILVIA
From "The Cautious Lovers"
Silvia, let us from the crowd retire,
For what to you and me
(Who but
each other do desire)
Is all that here we see?
Apart we'll live, though not alone;
For who alone can call
Those who in
deserts live with one
If in that one they've all?
The world a vast meander is,
Where hearts confusedly stray;
Where few
do hit, whilst thousands miss,
The happy mutual way.
Anne Finch [? -1720]
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
