Love

Song — Set by Mr. Coleman (Bring back my Comfort, and return)

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Love

Bring back my Comfort, and return,
For well thou know'st that I
In such a vigorous passion burn,
That missing thee, I die.
Return, return, insult no more,
Return, return, and me restore
To those sequestred joyes I had before.

Absence, in most, that quenches Love,
And cools the warm desire,
The ardour of my heat improves,
And makes the flame aspire;
Th' Opinion therefore I deny,
And term it, though a Tyranny,
The Nurce to Faith, and Truth, and Constancy.

Yet Dear, I do not urge thy stay,
That were to prove unjust
To my desires; nor Court delay:
But ah! thy speed I must;
Then bring me back the stol'n Delight
Snatch't from me in thy speedy flight,
Destroy my tedious Day, my longing Night,

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “Song — Set by Mr. Coleman (Bring back my Comfort, and return).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/119/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “Song — Set by Mr. Coleman (Bring back my Comfort, and return).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/119/.

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