NAMES

I ask'd my fair one happy day,

What I should call her in my lay;

By what sweet name from Rome or Greece;

Lalage, Neaera, Chloris,

Sappho, Lesbia, or Doris,

Arethusa or Lucrece.

‘ Ah!’ replied my gentle fair,

‘ Belovéd, what are names but air?

Choose thou whatever suits the line;

Call me Sappho, call me Chloris,

Call me Lalage or Doris,

Only, only call me Thine.’