Love

Caelica, Sonnet LXXII

by Fulke Greville 1554–1628

From Caelica (1633)

Love

MYraphill, 'tis true, I lou'd, and you lou'd me,
My thoughts as narrow as my heart, then were;
Which made change seeme impossible to be,
Thinking one place could not two bodies beare.
This was but earnest Youths simplicitie,
To fadome Nature within Passions wit;
Which thinks her earnestnesse eternity,
Till selfe-delight makes change looke thorough it:
You banish'd were, I grieu'd, but languish'd not,
For worth was free and of affection sure;
So that time must be vaine, or you forgot,
Nature and Loue, no Vacuum can endure,
I found desert, and to desert am true;
Still dealing by it, as I dealt by you.

MLA

Greville, Fulke. “Caelica, Sonnet LXXII.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/greville/87/.

Chicago

Greville, Fulke. “Caelica, Sonnet LXXII.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/greville/87/.

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