Thomas D'Urfey (1653-1723). Chloe Divine. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1910. The Book of Restoration Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Chloe Divine

By Thomas D’Urfey (1653–1723)


CHLOE ’S a Nymph in flowery groves,
A Nereid in the streams;
Saint-like she in the temple moves,
A woman in my dreams.

Love steals artillery from her eyes,	5
The Graces point her charms;
Orpheus is rivalled in her voice,
And Venus in her arms.

Never so happily in one
Did heaven and earth combine;	10
And yet ’tis flesh and blood alone
That makes her so divine.