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Home  »  The Oxford Book of English Verse  »  426. The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.

Matthew Prior. 1664–1721

426. 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.