All cruel as thou art to me,
Long has my heart been fix’d on thee;
On thee I’ve mus’d the live-long day,
And thought the weary night away;
I’ve trac’d thy footsteps o’er the green,
And shar’d thy rambles oft unseen;
I’ve linger’d near thee night and day,
When thou hast thought me far away;
I’ve watch’d the turning of thy face,
And fondly mark’d thy moving grace;
And wept thy rising smiles to see;
I’ve been a fool for love of thee. 
Yet do not think I stay the while
Thy weakly pity to beguile: 
Let forced favour fruitless prove! 
The pity curst, that brings not love! 
No woman e’er shall give me pain,
Or ever break my rest again: 
Nor aught that comes of woman kind
Have pow’r again to move my mind. 
Far on a foreign shore I’ll seek
Some lonely island, bare and bleak;
I’ll seek some wild and rugged cell,
And with untamed creatures dwell. 
To hear their cries is now my choice,
Far more than man’s deceitful voice: 
To listen to the howling wind,
Than luring tongue of womankind. 
They look not beautiful and good,
But ronghsome seem as they are rude.

O Phillis! thou hast wreck’d a heart,
Which proudly bears, but feels the smart. 
Adieu! adieu! should’st thou e’er prove
The pang of ill-requited love,
Thou’lt know what I have borne for thee,
And then thou wilt remember me.

A POET, OR, SOUND-HEARTED LOVER’S FAREWELL TO HIS MISTRESS.

Fair Nymph, who dost my fate controul,
And reign’st the mistress of my soul,
Where thou all bright in beauties ray
Hast held a long tyrannick sway,
They who the hardest rule maintain,
In their commands do still refrain
From what impossible must prove,
But thou hast bade me cease to love;
Nor would some gentle mercy give,
And only bid me cease to live. 
Ah! when the magnet’s pow’r is o’er,
The compass then will point no more;
And when no verdure cloaths the spring,
The tuneful birds forget to sing: 
But thou all sweet and heav’nly fair,
Hast bade thy swain from love forbear. 
In pity let thine own fair hand
A death’s-wound to this bosom send: 
This tender heart of purest faith
May then resign thee with its breath;
And in the sun-beam of thine eye
A proud and willing victim die.

But since thou wilt not have it so,
Far from thy presence will I go: 
Far from my heart’s dear bliss I’ll stray,
Since I no longer can obey. 
In foreign climes I’ll distant roam,
No more to hail my native home: 
To foreign swains I’ll pour my woe,
In foreign plains my tears shall flow: 
By murm’ring stream and shady grove
Shall other echoes tell my love;
And richer flow’rs of vivid hue
Upon my tomb shall other maidens strew.

Adieu, dear Phillis! should’ft thou e’er
Some soft and plaintive story hear,
Of hapless youth who died for love,
Or all forlorn did banish’d rove,
O think of me! nor then deny
The gentle tribute of a sigh.