Love
An Expostulation with Love
From Lyric Poems, Made in Imitation of the Italians (1687)
Love
THY Laws are most severe, Oh Winged Boy!
For us to love, and not enjoy:
What Reason is't we should this Pain abide?
If love we must, you might provide,
Either that our Affections we restrain,
From her we're sure to love in vain:
Or after our Desires so Guide our Feet,
That where we love, we may an equal Passion meet.
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Ayres, Philip. “An Expostulation with Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/ayres/41/.
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