Love Poems – Page 27
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An Epitaph
O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see / How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight; / The end of joy and all prosperitee … -
Forget not yet
Forget not yet the tried intent / Of such a truth as I have meant; / My great travail so gladly spent, … -
The Appeal
And wilt thou leave me thus! / Say nay, say nay, for shame! / —To save thee from the blame … -
A Revocation
What should I say? / —Since Faith is dead, / And Truth away … -
Vixi Puellis Nuper Idoneus...
They flee from me that sometime did me seek, / With naked foot stalking within my chamber: / Once have I seen them gentle, tame, and meek, … -
To His Lute
My lute, awake! perform the last / Labour that thou and I shall waste, / And end that I have now begun; … -
Description of Spring
The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings, / With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale: / The nightingale with feathers new she sings; … -
Complaint of the Absence of Her Loverbeing upon the Sea
O HAPPY dames! that may embrace / The fruit of your delight, / Help to bewail the woful case … -
The Means to attain Happy Life
Martial, the things that do attain / The happy life be these, I find:— / The richesse left, not got with pain; … -
A True Love
What sweet relief the showers to thirsty plants we see, / What dear delight the blooms to bees, my true love is to me! / As fresh and lusty Ver foul Winter doth exceed— …
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