275. Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing. John Gay. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics

English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

275. Love in Her Eyes Sits Playing

John Gay (1685–1732)


LOVE in her eyes sits playing,
And sheds delicious death;
Love in her lips is straying,
And warbling in her breath;
Love on her breast sits panting,	5
And swells with soft desire:
Nor grace, nor charm, is wanting
To set the heart on fire.