The Poetical Works of William Collins/Sonnet

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SONNET.

When Phœbe form'd a wanton smile,
My soul! it reach'd not here:
Strange, that thy peace, thou trembler, flies
Before a rising tear!
From 'midst the drops, my love is born, 5
That o'er those eyelids rove:
Thus issued from a teeming wave
The fabled queen of love.
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