Henry Livingston, Jr.
Henry Livingston's Poetry



SWEET as op'ning roses are
As 'th expanded lilly fair
Blithsome as the breathing day
Smiling as the smiling May
Heav'n itself her feeling mind
Loveliest of the lovely kind
Is my Daphne - sweetest maid
That e'er sported in the glade

When beneath the nodding grove
She inclines to muse or rove
Airs of Eden float around
Flow'rs spontaneous deck the ground
Cupids clap their wings about her
Life itself's not life without her.
                R.






Published
New-York Magazine; or, Literary Repository
Vol. II No. IX (Sep 1791): 541; by R


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