SELF-EXILED. It is not that I love you less Which I have known belongs to you; COME, LET US KISS AND PART. Since there's no hope, come, let us kiss and part! Shake hands forever! Cancel all our vows! That we one jot of former love retain ! I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. 135 Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou mightst him yet recover. MICHAEL DRAYTON. I'LL NEVER LOVE THEE MORE. My dear and only love, I pray As Alexander I will reign, My thoughts did evermore disdain He either fears his fate too much, Who dares not put it to the touch But I will reign and govern still, And all to stand in awe; But 'gainst my batteries if I find Thou storm or vex me sore, And in the empire of thy heart, If others do pretend a part, I'll smiling mock at thy neglect, But if no faithless action stain I'll deck and crown thy head with bays MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. AH! HOW SWEET! Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire: TO ELECTRA. Pains of love are sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. Sighs which are from lovers blown Cure, like trickling balm, their smart. Lovers, when they lose their breath, Bleed away in easy death. Love and Time with reverence use, Which in youth sincere they send; TO ELECTRA. I dare not ask a kiss; 137 JOHN DRYDEN. I dare not beg a smile; I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share ROBERT HERRICK. CONSTANCY. Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather. Time shall moult away his wings, In the whole wide world again But the spite on't is no praise Is due at all to me; Love with me had made no stays, Had it any been but she. Had it any been but she, And that very face, There had been at least ere this A dozen in her place. SIR JOHN SUCKLING. To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another! ROBERT BURNS. |