To Mademoiselle de S…

Poem by Fanny De Beauharnais Collection Miscellaneous Fugitive Poems and Prose of No ConsequencePeriod 18th centuryPrint

You bring together so many charms!
And they are treasures lost!
Love sheds tears over them;
Hymen claims they are owed to him.
Ah! From him, what can you fear?
Yes, I have known more than one mortal,
Too much in love to know how to feign,
Burning to follow you to the altar
To swear there to love endlessly
What in you I shall always love,
But what a lover without guile
Loves even more in his mistress.
Alas! no one interests you….
Friendship alone has all your vows.
Join the most charming of Gods
To the most lovable of Goddesses:
It is the secret of happy hearts.

fanny-de-beauharnais

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