LOVE'S GROWTH I SCARCE believe my love to be so pure Because it doth endure Vicissitude and season, as the grass. Methinks I lied all winter, when I swore But if this medicine, love, which cures all sorrow Love sometimes would contemplate, sometimes do. And yet no greater, but more eminent, Love by the spring is grown ; As in the firmament Stars by the sun are not enlarged, but shown, ! If, as in water stirr'd more circles be Produced by one, love such additions take, Those like so many spheres but one heaven make, And though each spring do add to love new heat, New taxes, and remit them not in peace, THE ANNIVERSARY ALL kings, and all their favourites, All glory of honours, beauties, wits, When thou and I first one another saw. All other things to their destruction draw, This no to-morrow hath, nor yesterday; But truly keeps his first, last, everlasting day. Two graves must hide thine and my corse; If one might, death were no divorce. Alas! as well as other princes, we (Who prince enough in one another be) Must leave at last in death these eyes and ears, Oft fed with true oaths, and with sweet salt tears; But souls where nothing dwells but love (All other thoughts being inmates) then shall prove This or a love increasèd there above, When bodies to their graves, souls from their graves remove. And then we shall be throughly blest; Here upon earth we 're kings, and none but we True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again To write threescore. This is the second of our reign. CANONIZATION FOR God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love; Or chide my palsy, or my gout; My five grey hairs, or ruin'd fortune flout; With wealth your state, your mind with arts improve; Take you a course, get you a place, Observe his Honour, or his Grace; Or the king's real, or his stamp'd face Alas! alas! who's injured by my love? What merchant's ships have my sighs drown'd? Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Though she and I do love. Call us what you will, we are made such by love; Call her one, me another fly, |