Love
Song
From The Oxford Book of English Verse, ed. A. Quiller-Couch (1900)
Love
For her gait, if she be walking;
Be she sitting, I desire her
For her state’s sake; and admire her
For her wit if she be talking;
Gait and state and wit approve her;
For which all and each I love her.
Be she sullen, I commend her
For a modest. Be she merry,
For a kind one her prefer I.
Briefly, everything doth lend her
So much grace, and so approve her,
That for everything I love her.
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Tavistock, William Browne of. “Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/browne_w/37/.
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Tavistock, William Browne of. “Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/browne_w/37/.
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