The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250–1900 - Hemingway's List for a Young Writer (1934)

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Matthew Prior. 1664-1721

426. The Lady who offers her Looking-Glass to Venus

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24 words

VENUS, take my votive glass:
Since I am not what I was,
What from this day I shall be,
Venus, let me never see.

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