th intelligences; they the spheres。
we owe them thanks; because they thus
did us; to us; at first convey;
yielded their senses force to us;
nor are dross to us; but allay。
on man heavens influence works not so;
but that it first imprints the air ;
for soul into the soul may flow;
though it to body first repair。
as our blood labours to beget
spirits; as like souls as it can ;
because such fingers need to knit
that subtle knot; which makes us man ;
so must pure lovers souls descend
to affections; and to faculties;
which sense may reach and apprehend;
else a great prince in prison lies。
to our bodies turn we then; that so
weak men on love reveald may look ;
loves mysteries in souls do grow;
but yet the body is his book。
and if some lover; such as we;
have heard this dialogue of one;
let him still mark us; he shall see
small change when were to bodies gone。
loves deity。
i long to talk with some old lovers ghost;
who died before the god of love was born。
i cannot think that he; who then loved most;
sunk so low as to love one which did scorn。
but since this god produced a destiny;
and that vice…nature; custom; lets it be;
i must love her that loves not me。
sure; they which made him god; meant not so much;
nor he in his young godhead practised it。
but when an even flame two hearts did touch;
his office was indulgently to fit
actives to passives。 correspondency
only his subject was ; it cannot be
love; till i love her; who loves me。
but every modern god will now extend
his vast prerogative as far as jove。
to rage; to lust; to write to; to mend;
all is the purlieu of the god of love。
o ! were we wakend by this tyranny
to ungod this child again; it could not be
i should love her; who loves not me。
rebel and atheist too; why murmur i;
as though i felt the worst that love could do?
love might make me leave loving; or might try
a deeper plague; to make her love me too ;
which; since she loves before; im loth to see。
falsehood is worse than hate ; and that must be;
if she whom i love; should love me。
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loves diet。
to what a cumbersome unwieldiness
and burdenous corpulence my love had grown;
but that i did; to make it less;
and keep it in proportion;
give it a diet; made it feed upon
that which love worst endures; discretion
above one sigh a day i allowd him not;
of which my fortune; and my faults had part ;
and if sometimes by stealth he got
a she sigh from my mistress heart;
and thought to feast upon that; i let him see
twas neither very sound; nor meant to me。
if he wrung from me a tear; i brined it so
with scorn and shame; that him it nourishd not ;
if he suckd hers; i let him know
twas not a tear which he had got ;
his drink was counterfeit; as was his meat ;
for eyes; which roll towards all; weep not; but sweat。
whatever he would dictate i writ that;
but burnt her letters when she writ to me ;
and if that favour made him fat;
i said; 〃if any title be
conveyd by this; ah ! what doth it avail;
to be the fortieth name in an entail?〃
thus i reclaimd my buzzard love; to fly
at what; and when; and how; and where i choose。
now negligent of sports i lie;
and now; as other falconers use;
i spring a mistress; swear; write; sigh; and weep ;
and the game killd; or lost; go talk or sleep。
the will。
before i sigh my last gasp; let me breathe;
great love; some legacies ; i here bequeath
mine eyes to argus; if mine eyes can see ;
if they be blind; then; love; i give them thee ;
my tongue to fame ; to ambassadors mine ears ;
to women; or the sea; my tears ;
thou; love; hast taught me heretofore
by making me serve her who had twenty more;
that i should give to none; but such as had too much before。
my constancy i to the planets give ;
my truth to them who at the court do live ;
my ingenuity and openness;
to jesuits ; to buffoons my pensiveness ;
my silence to any; who abroad hath been ;
my money to a capuchin :
thou; love; taughtst me; by appointing me
to love there; where no love received can be;
only to give to such as have an incapacity。
my faith i give to roman catholics ;
all my good works unto the schismatics
of amsterdam ; my best civility
and courtship to an university ;
my modesty i give to soldiers bare ;
my patience let gamesters share :
thou; love; taughtst me; by making me
love her that holds my love disparity;
only to give to those that count my gifts indignity。
i give my reputation to those
which were my friends ; mine industry to foes ;
to schoolmen i bequeath my doubtfulness ;
my sickness to physicians; or excess ;
to nature all that i in rhyme have writ ;
and to my pany my wit :
thou; love; by making me adore
her; who begot this love in me before;
taughtst me to make; as though i gave; when i do but restore。
to him for whom the passing…bell next tolls;
i give my physic books ; my written rolls
of moral counsels i to bedlam give ;
my brazen medals unto them which live
in want of bread ; to them which pass among
all foreigners; mine english tongue :
though; love; by making me love one
who thinks her friendship a fit portion
for younger lovers; dost my gifts thus disproportion。
therefore ill give no more; but ill undo
the world by dying; because love dies too。
then all your beauties will be no more worth
than gold in mines; where none doth draw it forth ;
and all your graces no more use shall have;
than a sun…dial in a grave :
thou; love; taughtst me by making me
love her who doth neglect both me and thee;
to invent; and practise this one way; to annihilate all three。
the funeral。
whoever es to shroud me; do not harm;
nor question much;
that subtle wreath of hair; which crowns my arm ;
the mystery; the sign; you must not touch ;
for tis my outward soul;
viceroy to that; which then to heaven being gone;
will leave this to control
and keep these limbs; her provinces; from dissolution。
for if the sinewy thread my brain lets fall
through every part
can tie those parts; and make me one of all;
those hairs which upward grew; and strength and art
have from a better brain;
can better do t ; except she meant that i
by this should know my pain;
as prisoners then are manacled; when theyre condemnd to die。
whateer she meant by it; bury it with me;
for since i am
loves martyr; it might breed idolatry;
if into other hands these relics came。
as twas humility
to afford to it all that a soul can do;
so tis some bravery;
that since you would have none of me; i bury some of you。
the blossom。
little thinkst thou; poor flower;
whom ive watchd six or seven days;
and seen thy birth; and seen what every hour
gave to thy growth; thee to this height to raise;
and now dost laugh and triumph on this bough;
little thinkst thou;
that it will freeze anon; and that i shall
to…morrow find thee fallen; or not at all。
little thinkst thou; poor heart;
that labourest yet to nestle thee;
and thinkst by hovering here to get a part
in a forbidden or forbidding tree;
and hopest her stiffness by long siege to bow;
little thinkst thou
that thou to…morrow; ere the sun doth wake;
must with the sun and me a journey take。
but thou; which lovest to be
subtle to plague thyself; wilt say;
alas ! if you must go; whats that to me?
here lies my business; and here i will stay
you go to friends; whose love and means present
various content
to your eyes; ears; and taste; and every part ;
if then your body go; what need your heart?
well then; stay here ; but know;
when thou hast stayd and done thy most;
a naked thinking heart; that makes no show;
is to a woman but a kind of ghost。
how shall she know my heart ; or having none;
know thee for one?
practice may make her know some other part ;
but take my word; she doth not know a heart。
meet me in london; then;
twenty days hence; and thou shalt see
me fresher and more fat; by being with men;
than if i had stayd still with her and thee。
for gods sake; if you can; be you so too ;
i will give you
there to another friend; whom we shall find
as glad to have my body as my mind。
the primrose; being at montgomery castle
upon the hill; on which it is situate。
upon this primrose hill;
where; if heaven would distil
a shower of rain; each several drop might go
to his own primrose; and grow manna so ;
and where their form; and their infinity
make a terrestrial galaxy;
as the small stars do in the sky ;
i walk to find a true love ; and i see
that tis not a mere woman; that is she;
but must or more or less than woman be。
yet know i not; which flower
i wish ; a six; or four ;
for should my true…love less than woman be;
she were scarce anything ; and then; should she
be more than woman; she would get above
all thought
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