"Each charm thro' Fancy's mirrour shone / Fresh as the rose, as lillies fair; / But, ah! the rose and lilly's gone, /Beauty has a small empire there, / And total ruin fears."
To Lorissa, On her Recovery from a Dangerous Fever [from Poems on Various Subjects]
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1759)
<u>Poems on Various Subjects. By Edward Stephens.</u> (London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759). &lt<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T102014">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;