Love
The Shepheards Garland (1605): Eglog 2, Song 2
From The Shepheards Garland (1605)
Vppon a bank with roses set about,
Where pretty turtles ioyning bil to bill,
And gentle springs steale softly murmuring out
Washing the foote of pleasures sacred hill:
There little loue sore wounded lyes,
His bowe and arowes broken,
Bedewd with teares from Venus eyes
Oh greeuous to be spoken.
Beare him my hart slaine with her scornefull eye
Where sticks the arrowe that poore hart did kill,
With whose sharp pile request him ere he die,
About the same to write his latest will,
And bid him send it backe to mee,
At instant of his dying,
That cruell cruell shee may see
My faith and her denying.
His chappell be a mournefull Cypresse Shade,
And for a chauntry Philomels sweet lay,
Where prayers shall continually be made
By pilgrim louers passing by that way.
With Nymphes and shepheards yearly moane
His timeles death beweeping,
In telling that my hart alone
Hath his last will in keeping.
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MLA
Drayton, Michael. “The Shepheards Garland (1605): Eglog 2, Song 2.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/165/.
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Drayton, Michael. “The Shepheards Garland (1605): Eglog 2, Song 2.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/drayton/165/.
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