Love
Now every tree renews his summer's green
From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age, ed. A. H. Bullen (London: Nimmo, 1891)
Now every tree renews his summer's green,
Why is your heart in winter's garments clad?
Your beauty says my love is summer's queen,
But your cold love like winter makes me sad:
Then either spring with buds of love again
Or else congeal my thoughts with your disdain.
Codex Note
From Thomas Weelkes' Madrigals, 1597.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Now every tree renews his summer's green.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/91/.
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Anonymous (Elizabethan songs). “Now every tree renews his summer's green.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-elizabethan-songs/91/.
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