Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COLIN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW


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First Line: Gentle maid, consent to be
Last Line: Quit for these thy liberty.
Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Weddings; Husbands; Wives


Gentle maid, consent to be
A rural bride, and dwell with me,
Where the woodland warblers sing
Songs of love, to hail the spring—
Where sweet wild flowers scent the gale
Round my cottage of the vale.

The jess'mine dark with snowy gems,
Scatter'd o'er its bending stems;
And the woodbine's tendrils twine
With the blushing eglantine,
To form a rural bower for thee—
Quit for these thy liberty.





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