How happy is the harden'd heart,
Where interest is the only view!
Can sigh and meet, or smile and part,
Nor pleas'd, nor griev'd, nor false, nor true --
Yet, have they truly peace of mind?
Or do they ever truly know
The bliss sincerer tempers find,
Which truth and virtue can bestow?

(C) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
03/13/2017


Best Poems of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• Answered, For Lord William Hamilton
• A Ballad
• Epigram, 1734
• Ballad, On A Late Occurrence
• A Character
• Epithalamium
• On Seeing A Portrait Of Sir Robert Walpole
• Answer
• A Hymn To The Moon
• An Epistle To The Earl Of Burlington
• Song -- Rondeau
• Addressed To ------, 1736
• Written At Lovere, 1755
• The Ninth Ode Of The Third Book Of Horace Imitated
• Conclusion Of A Letter To A Friend
• Constantinople
• To A Friend On His Travels
• Advice