Written in a Flower Book, of my own Colouring, designed for Lady Plymouth

William Shenstone 1714 (Halesowen) – 1763 (Halesowen)



Debitae nymphis opifex coronae.-Hor.

Imitation.

Constructor of the tributary wreath
For rural maids.

Bring, Flora, bring thy treasures here,
The pride of all the blooming year;
And let me thence a garland frame,
To crown this fair, this peerless dame!
But, ah! since envious Winter lowers,
And Hewell meads resign their flowers,
Let Art and Friendship's joint essay
Diffuse their flowerets in her way.
Not Nature can, herself, prepare
A worthy wreath for Lesbia's hair,
Whose temper, like her forehead, smooth,
Whose thoughts and accents form'd to soothe,
Whose pleasing mien, and make refined,
Whose artless breast, and polish'd mind,
From all the nymphs of plain or grove,
Deserved and won by Plymouth's love!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A XX AABBCCDDAAEEFFXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 700
Words 117
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 16

William Shenstone

William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes. more…

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