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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (10)
2023-12-06X. Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon vaded, Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring! Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely ...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (9)
2023-12-06IX. Fair was the morn when the fair queen of love, * * * * * * Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove, For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and w...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (8)
2023-12-06VIII. If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me, Because tho...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (7)
2023-12-06VII. Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle; Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty; Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is brittle; Softe...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (6)
2023-12-06VI. Scarce had the sun dried up the dewy morn, And scarce the herd gone to the hedge for shade, When Cytherea, all in love forlorn, A longing tarrianc...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (5)
2023-12-06V. If love make me forsworn, how shall I swear to love? O never faith could hold, if not to beauty vow'd: Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (4)
2023-12-06IV. Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green, Did court the lad with many a lovely look, Such looks as none coul...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (3)
2023-12-06III. Did not the heavenly rhetoric of thine eye, 'Gainst whom the world could not hold argument. Persuade my heart to this false perjury? Vows for...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (2)
2023-12-06II. Two loves I have, of comfort and despair, That like two spirits do suggest me still; My better angel is a man right fair, My worser spirit a woman...
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THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM (1)
2023-12-06I. When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies, That she might think me some untutor'd youth, Unskilfu...