Oxford and Cambridge Miscellany Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1708 Excerpt: ...Tow'r where Sejlian Hero stood To guide Leander thro' the swelling Flood. View well Abydus Hoarse-resounding streights, That still lament their Loves, and mourn their Fates-0 4 And And Thou, O Goddess, grant thy heav'nly Aid, Tell how Leander was to Love betray'd, And how with mutual Flames he fir'd the Seflian Maid. Hero, descended of an ancient Line, . Was Venus Priestess at her Sejiian Shrine: A lonely Tow'r confin'd the sacred Maid, Whose rising Height the Subject Seas survey'd.. Her self a Venus Such Ccelestial Grace Shone in her Eyes, and sparkled in her Face. To Masques, and publick Balls she'd ne'er repair, Nor come amidst the Circle of the Fair, Her Sex's Envy thinking to decline, (For at Superior Charms the Women still repine.) But she, with Incense and Libations strove To please the Cyprian Queen, and God of Love: She made their Fane with daily OfFrings flow, Dreading the Shafts, and trembling at the Bow, But yet those flaming Shafts she Tcap'd not so. The The Sestians now a Day of solemn State To Venus and Adonis celebrate. In mighty Crowds against the sacred Day, From all the Isles around they haste away These from H monia, those from Cyprus come, Forsake their Cities, and desert their Home: No Fair in all Cytherds Towns is found, Nor Damsel dancing on the spicy Ground Of balmy Libanits, with Odours crown'd. All of each Age and Sex to Sejlus run, From Phrygian Cities, and Abydus Town: Nor was there one brisk Youth remain'd behind, Whose Soul to Beauty and to Love inclin'd j For they still follow where the Fame is heard Of consecrated Days, and Feasts prepar'd-, Not with design t' adore the Pow'rs divine, Or offer Incense at the Sejlian Shrine, But to behold the Maids that in the Temple mine. Now the fair Priestess pass'd amidst the Throng, ...