Love
Deadly Sweetness
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Sweet thoughts, the food on which I feeding sterve;
Sweet tears, the drink that more augments my thirst;
Sweet eyes, the stars by which my course doth swerve;
Sweet hope, my death, which wast my life at first;
Sweet thoughts, sweet tears, sweet hope, sweet eyes
How chance that death in sweetness lies?
Codex Note
Credited to "A. W." in Francis Davison's own manuscript list (Bullen prints the initials in square brackets).
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