Verses To Clarinda

  verses to clarinda
  sent with a pair of wine-glasses.
  fair empress of the poet's soul,
  and queen of poetesses;
  clarinda, take this little boon,
  this humble pair of glasses:
  and fill them up with generous juice,
  as generous as your mind;
  and pledge them to the generous toast,
  “the whole of human kind!”
  “to those who love us!” second fill;
  but not to those whom we love;
  lest we love those who love not us—
  a third—“to thee and me, love!”