How old may Phyllis be, you ask,
Whose beauty thus all hearts engages?
To answer is no easy task;
For she has really two ages.
Stiff in brocard, and pinch'd in stays,
Her patches, paint, and jewels on;
All day let envy view her face;
And Phyllis is but twenty-one.
Paint, patches, jewels laid aside,
At night astronomers agree,
The evening has the day belied;
And Phyllis is some forty-three.
Phyllis's Age
Matthew Prior
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Poem topics: beauty, night, evening, agree, answer, face, easy, view, I love you, I miss you, Valentine's Day, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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