Love
Upon Her Long Absence
From A Poetical Rhapsody (1602), ed. A. H. Bullen (1890–91)
Love
If this most wretched and infernal anguish,
Wherein so long your absence makes me languish,
My vital spirits spending.
Do not work out my ending;
Nor yet your long expected safe returning.
To heav'nly joy my hellish torments turning.
With joy so overfill me.
As presently it kill me:
I will conclude, hows'ever schools deceive a man,
No joy, nor sorrow, can of life bereave a man.
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Davison, Francis. “Upon Her Long Absence.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/72/.
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Davison, Francis. “Upon Her Long Absence.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/davison/72/.
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