A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love (Mary Wroth Poems)
In this strange Labyrinth how shall I turne,Wayes are on all sids while the way I misse:If to the right ...
In this strange Labyrinth how shall I turne,Wayes are on all sids while the way I misse:If to the right ...
The spring now come at lastTo Trees, Fields, to Flowres,And meadowes makes to tasteHis pride, while sad showresWhich from mine ...
Lovers learne to speake but truth,Sweare not, and your oathes forgoe,Give your age a constant youth,Vow noe more then what ...
Say Venus how long have I lov'd, and serv'd you heere?Yet all my passions scorn'd or doubted, although cleere;Alas thinke ...
All Night I weepe, all Day I cry, Ay me,I still doe wish, though yet deny, ay me;I sigh, I ...
Sorrow, I yeeld, and grieve that I did misse;Will not thy rage be satified with this?As sad a Divell as ...
Sweet, let me enjoy thy sightMore cleare, more bright then morning Sun,Which in Spring-time giues delightAnd by which Summers pride ...
Love as well can make abidingIn a faithfull Shepheards brestAs in Princes: whose thoughts slidingLike swift riuers never rest.Change to ...
O me, the time is come to part,And with it my life-killing smart:Fond Hope leave me, my deare must goe,To ...
Fairest and still truest eyes,Can you the lights be, and the spiesOf my desires?Can you shine cleare for loves delight,And ...
Bveing past the paines of love,Freedome gladly seekes to move:Sayes that Loves delights were pretty;But to dwell in them t'were ...
Love a childe is ever crying,Please him, and he strait is flying;Give him, he the more is craving,Never satisfi'd with ...
Take heed mine eyes, how you your looks doe cast,Lest they betray my hearts most secret thought:Be true unto your ...
Is to leave all, and take the threed of Love,Which line straite leades unto the soules content,Where choice delights with ...
Dearest if I by my deserving,May maintaine in your thoughts my love,Let me it still enjoy;Nor faith destroy:Butt pitty Love ...
My paine still smother'd in my grieved brest,Seekes for some ease, yet cannot passage finde,To be discharg'd of this unwellcome ...
Am I thus conquer'd? hame I lost the powers,That to withstand, which joyes to ruine me?Must I bee still, while ...
When night's blacke Mantle could most darknesse prove,And sleepe (deaths Image) did my senses hyre,From Knowledge of my selfe, then ...
How many eyes (poore Love) hast thou to guardThee from thy most desired wish, and end?Is it because some say ...
O dearest eyes, the lights, and guides of Love,The joyes of Cupid, who himselfe borne blinde,To your bright shining, doth ...
Poore Love in chaines, and fetters like a thiefeI mett ledd forth, as chast Diana's gaineVowing the untaught Lad should ...
Most blessed night, the happy time for Love,The shade for Lovers, and their Loves delight,The raigne of Love for seruants ...
How well (poore heart) thou witnesse canst, I love,How oft my grief hath made thee shed forth teares,Drops of thy ...
Can pleasing sight, misfortune ever bring?Can firme desire a painefull torment trye?Can winning eyes prove to the heart a sting?Or ...
O that no day would ever more appeare,But clowdy night to governe this sad place,Nor light from Heaven these haples ...
And be in his brave Court a glorious lightShine in the eyes of Faith, and ConstancyMaintaine the fires of Love, ...
How bless'd bee they, then, who his favors prove,A life whereof the birth is just desire?Breeding sweete flame, which harts ...
Sleepe fye possesse me not, nor doe not frightMe with thy heavy, and thy deathlike might:For counterfetting's wilder then death's ...
Come darkest Night, becomming sorrow best,Light leave thy light, fit for a lightsome soule:Darknesse doth truely sute with me opprest,Whom ...
And burne, yet burning you will love the smart,When you shall feele the waight of true desire,So pleasing, as you ...
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