Solitude

Poem by Mary Mollineux (1651?-1695)

by Mary Mollineux (1651?-1695) 7th June 2024

How sweet is harmless Solitude?
What can its Joys controul?
Tumults and Noise may not intrude,
To interrupt the Soul

That here enjoys it self, retir’d
From Earth’s seducing Charms;
Leaving her Pomp, to be admir’d
By such as Court their Harms;

While she, on Contemplations Wings,
Soars far beyond the Sky,
And feeds her Thoughts on Heav’nly Things,
Which in her Bosom lye.