Thy every hair for love to work upon Is much too much, some fitter must be sought; Extreme and scattering bright, can love inhere: Of air, not pure as it, yet pure doth wear, So thy love may be my love's sphere. Just such disparity As is 'twixt Air's and Angel's purity, 20 'Twixt women's love and men's will ever be. 28 BREAK OF DAY. I. STAY, O Sweet! and do not rise, The light that shines comes from thine eyes; Because that you and I must part. Stay, or else my joys will die, II. 'Tis true, 'tis day; what tho' it be? Light hath no tongue, but is all eye: This were the worst that it could say, And that I lov'd my heart and honour so, That I would not from her that had them go. IV. Must business thee from hence remove? Oh! that's the worst disease of love; He which hath bus'ness, and makes love, doth do THE ANNIVERSARY. ALL kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, The sun itself (which makes times as they pass) When thou and I first one another saw: All other things to their destruction draw, This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; 20 24 10 Two graves must hide thine and my corse; Alas! as well as other princes, we (Who prince enough in one another be) Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears, (All other thoughts being inmates) then shall prove This or a love increased there above, When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves, remove. And then we shall be th'roughly blest, But now no more than all the rest. Here upon earth we're kings, and none but we 20 To write threescore; this is the second of cur reign. 30 Volume 11. A VALEDICTION OF MY NAME IN THE WINDOW. I. My name, ingrav'd herein, Doth contribute my firmness to this glass, II. 'Tis much that glass should be As all confessing and th'rough-shine as I: But all such rules Love's magic can undo; III. As no one point nor dash, Which are but accessaries to this name, 10 IV. Or if too hard and deep This learning be for a scratch'd name to teach, It as a given Death's-head keep, Lovers' mortality to preach, Or think this ragged bony name to be My ruinous anatomy. Then as all my souls be V. Emparadis'd in you (in whom alone I understand, and grow, and see) Being still with you, the muscle, sinew, and vein, Till my return, repair vi. And recompact my scatter'd body sô, VII. So since this name was cut When love and grief their exaltation had, As much more loving as more sad 'Twill make thee; and thou shouldst, till I return, Since I die daily, daily mourn. Donne.] Cij 20 30 40 |