Love
Kind are her answers
From The Third Book of Airs (c. 1617)
Kind are her answers,
But her performance keeps no day;
Breaks time, as dancers
From their own music when they stray.
All her free favours and smooth words,
Wing my hopes in vain.
O did ever voice so sweet but only feign?
Can true love yield such delay,
Converting joy to pain?
Lost is our freedom,
When we submit to women so:
Why do we need them
When, in their best they work our woe?
There is no wisdom
Can alter ends, by Fate prefixt.
O why is the good of man with evil mixt?
Never were days yet called two,
But one night went betwixt.
Codex Note
The Third Book of Airs (c. 1617)
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MLA
Campion, Thomas. “Kind are her answers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/75/.
Chicago
Campion, Thomas. “Kind are her answers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/campion/75/.
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