But negatives, my love is so. To all, which all love, I say no. If any, who deciphers best, What we know not (ourselves) can know, Let him teach me that nothing. This As yet my ease and comfort is, THE PROHIBITION. TAKE heed of loving me, At least remember, I forbad it thee; Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste Take heed of hating me, Or too much triumph in the victory ; Yet love and hate me too, So these extremes shall ne'er their office do; THE EXPIRATION. So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, Te Ye Am No Except it be too late to kill me so, Or if it have, let my word work on me, Go; and if that word have not quite killed thee, He I ca Being double dead, going, and bidding go. Lov THE COMPUTATION. FOR my first twenty years, since yesterday, And forty on hopes, that thou would'st they might last. Tears drowned one hundred, and sighs blew out two; A thousand I did neither think, nor do, Or not divide, all being one thought of you: Or in a thousand more forgot that too. Yet call not this long life; but think, that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die? THE PARADOX. No lover saith, I love, nor any other He thinks that else none can or will agree, I cannot say I loved, for who can say Love, with excess of heat, more young than old; We die but once, and who loved last did die, For though he seem to move, and stir awhile, Such life is like the light, which bideth yet, Or like the heat, which fire in solid matter Once I love and died; and am now become Mine epitaph and tomb. Here dead men speak their last, and so do I; SONG. SOUL's joy, now I am gone, And you alone, (Which cannot be, Since I must leave myself with thee, And carry thee with me,) Yet when unto our eyes Each other's sight, And makes to us a constant night, When others change to light: O give no way to grief, But let belief Let By O W I thoug So di Worshi Call, wh Of mutual love, This wonder to the vulgar prove, Our bodies, not we, move. Let not thy wit beweep Words, but sense deep; For when we miss By distance our hopes-joining bliss, Fools have no means to meet, Why should our clay Over our spirits so much sway, O give no way to grief, But let belief Of mutual love, This wonder to the vulgar prove, FAREWELL TO LOVE. WHILST yet to prove I thought there was some deity in Love, Worship, as atheists, at their dying hour, Call, what they cannot name, an unknown power, As ignorantly did I crave: |