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Matthew Prior

The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

VENUS, take my votive glass:
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.

About the poet
Matthew Prior
 
By the same poet
The Question to Lisetta
To a Child of Quality
Song
On My Birthday, July 21
A Letter
For my own Monument
 
Related books
Matthew Prior at amazon.co.uk

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