A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

That made my Love so delicately sneeze,

Thee to her Roman nose applied I saw,

And thou art doubly dear for things like these.

No washerwoman's filthy hand shall e'er,

Sweet Pocket-handkerchief! thy worth profane;

For thou hast touch'd the rubies of my fair,

And I will kiss thee o'er and o'er again.

Elegy II.

The Poet invokes the Spirits of the Elements to approach Delia.—He describes Her Singing.