Love

Love Lines

by Sir John Davies 1569–1626

From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)

Love

Stay lovely boy! why flyest thou mee
that languish in theis flames for thee?
I'me black 'tis true--why so is night,
yet louers in darke shades delight:
the whole World, doe but close thyne eye
will appeare as black as I;
or open'd, view but what a shade
is by thyne owne fayre body made,
that follows thee where ere thou goe:
Ah, who allow'd would not doe so?
lett mee for euer dwell so nigh,
and thou shalt need no shade but I.

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