17 COLIN Beauty sat bathing by a spring But better memory said, fie! So vain desire was chidden :- Hey nonny nonny! Into a slumber then I fell, When fond imagination Seem'd to see, but could not tell Her feature or her fashion. But ev'n as babes in dreams do smile, So I awaked, as wise this while As when I fell a-sleeping : Hey nonny nonny O! Hey nonny nonny! THE SHEPHERD TONY. 18 5 10 15 20 TO HIS LOVE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest ; 10 Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest : So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, 19 TO HIS LOVE When in the chronicle of wasted time Then in the blazon of sweet beauty's best So all their praises are but prophecies And, for they look'd but with divining eyes, They had not skill enough your worth to sing : For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. W. SHAKESPEARE. 20 LOVE'S PERJURIES On a day, alack the day! Love, whose month is ever May, Through the velvet leaves the wind, 5 That the lover, sick to death, Do not call it sin in me That I am forsworn for thee: Thou for whom Jove would swear And deny himself for Jove, Turning mortal for thy love. 21 W. SHAKESPEARE. A SUPPLICATION Forget not yet the tried intent Forget not yet when first began Forget not yet the great assays, Forget not yet! Forget not! O, forget not this, Forget not yet! 10 15 20 5 10 15 Forget not then thine own approved 22 TO AURORA 20 SIR T. WYATT. O if thou knew'st how thou thyself dost harm, And dost prejudge thy bliss, and spoil my rest; Then thou would'st melt the ice out of thy breast And thy relenting heart would kindly warm. O if thy pride did not our joys controul, 5 What world of loving wonders should'st thou see! For if I saw thee once transform'd in me, Then in thy bosom I would pour my soul ; Then all my thoughts should in thy visage shine, And if that aught mischanced thou should'st not moan 10 Nor bear the burthen of thy griefs alone; No, I would have my share in what were thine : And whilst we thus should make our sorrows one, This happy harmony would make them none. W. ALEXANDER, EARL OF STERLINE. 23 TRUE LOVE Let me not to the marriage of true minds Or bends with the remover to remove : O no! it is an ever-fixéd mark That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, 5 Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken, 10 Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks If this be error, and upon me proved, W. SHAKESPEARE. 24 A DITTY My true-love hath my heart, and I have his, His heart in me keeps him and me in one, . My true-love hath my heart, and I have his. 10 25 LOVE'S OMNIPRESENCE Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me your humble swain Ascend to heaven, in honour of my Love. Were I as high as heaven above the plain, As are the deepest bottoms of the main, 5 Whereso'er you were, with you my love should go. |