Give me thy weakness, make me blind, Both ways, as thou and thine, in eyes and mind; Is love, or, that love childish is; Let me not know that others know That she knows my pains, lest that so 20 A tender shame make me mine own new woe. If thou give nothing, yet thou 'rt just, Having put Love at last to show this face. This face, by which he could command This face, which, wheresoe'er it comes, 30 Can call vow'd men from cloisters, dead from tombs, And melt both poles at once, and store Deserts with cities, and make more Mines in the earth, than quarries were before. For this Love is enraged with me, Yet kills not; if I must example be Must learn by my being cut up and torn, 1. 28 1669, his face 40 CONFINED LOVE. SOME man unworthy to be possessor Of old or new love, himself being false or weak, One might but one man know; Are sun, moon or stars by law forbidden Are birds divorced or are they chidden If they leave their mate, or lie abroad a night? Though they new lovers choose; But we are made worse than those. Whoe'er rigg'd fair ships to lie in harbours, And not to seek lands, or not to deal with all? Or built fair houses, set trees, and arbours, Only to lock up, or else to let them fall? Good is not good, unless A thousand it possess, But doth waste with greediness. 10 20 9. 1669, bend away 1. 11. 1669, all night 1. 17. 1650, build THE DREAM. DEAR love, for nothing less than thee For reason, much too strong for fantasy. As lightning, or a taper's light, Thine eyes, and not thy noise waked me ; -For thou lovest truth-an angel, at first sight; And knew'st my thoughts beyond an angel's art, 10 When thou knew'st what I dreamt, when thou knew'st when Excess of joy would wake me, and camest then, I must confess, it could not choose but be Profane, to think thee any thing but thee. 1. 6. 1669, break'st... continuest 20 Coming and staying show'd thee, thee, That love is weak where fear's as strong as he; If mixture it of fear, shame, honour have; 30 A VALEDICTION OF WEEPING. LET me pour forth My tears before thy face, whilst I stay here, Pregnant of thee; Fruits of much grief they are, emblems of more ; So thou and I are nothing then, when on a divers shore. 1. 24. 1669, fears are 1. 29. 1669, com'st On a round ball A workman, that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afric, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, all. Which thee doth wear, 10 A globe, yea world, by that impression grow, O more than moon, Draw not up seas to drown me in thy sphere; Example find To do me more harm than it purposeth: Since thou and I sigh one another's breath, 20 Whoe'er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other's death. 1. 20. 1669, thy seas |