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