Love

To Her Hand, upon Her Giving Him Her Glove

by Francis Davison c. 1575–c. 1619

From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)

Love

Oh hand! of all hands living
The softest, moistest, whitest:
More skilled than Phoebus on a lute in running,
More than Minerva with a needle cunning,
Than Mercury more wily,
In stealing hearts most slily:
Since thou, dear hand, in theft so much delightest,
Why fall'st thou now a-giving?
Ay me! thy gifts are thefts, and with strange art,
In giving me thy glove, thou steal'st my heart.

MLA

Davison, Francis. “To Her Hand, upon Her Giving Him Her Glove.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/65/.

Chicago

Davison, Francis. “To Her Hand, upon Her Giving Him Her Glove.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/65/.

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