Reply to Some Stanzas by the Chevalier de…

Poem by Fanny De Beauharnais Collection Miscellaneous Fugitive Poems and Prose of No ConsequenceThemes LovePeriod 18th century

How charming are your praises!
Every Muse is embellished by them.
Erato, long asleep,
Awakens, & is reborn through your songs.
Better than she, you will know how to please.
Your lute will have every tone;
And I applaud, in your songs,
The language spoken at Cythera.
Of the Ovid whom you praise,
It is very sweet to me to be the friend.
I have always admired his genius:
In singing of him, you imitate him.
To the magic sounds of his lyre,
Love owes too much, to defy him.
He is a support of his empire:
Love will know how to preserve him.
No longer sulk at your Rosine;
Forgive her a few rigors.
The God of the twin-peaked hill
Has showered you with his favors.
Your misfortunes are among the ranks of dreams
(For one dreams in the sacred vale)
You dream like Anacreon:
Your fictions will be envied.

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