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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CAUTION, by CATHERINE TROTTER COCKBURN First Line: Soft kisses may be innocent Last Line: Who for small favours sighs in vain. | |||
Soft kisses may be innocent, But ah! too easy maid, beware; Though that is all thy kindness meant, 'Tis love's delusive fatal snare. No virgin e'er at first design'd Through all the maze of love to stray; But each new path allures her mind, Till, wandering on, she lose her way. 'Tis easy ere set out to stay; But who the useful art can teach, When sliding down a steepy way, To stop, before the end we reach? Keep ever something in thy power Beyond what would thy honour stain; He will not dare to aim at more, Who for small favours sighs in vain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BOY'S SUMMER SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW TO THE WHITE FIENDS by CLAUDE MCKAY TO MY MOTHER SLEEPING by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD SONNET: 104 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE TO THE NECROPHILE by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG LE GUIGNON by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |
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