Love

To Clarastella. Loves Constancie

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Poems, &c.

Love

'Tis no terrestrial fire
Doth with such heat my brest inspire,
For then your beauties Sun
Had lookt it to pale ashes long agon.

'Tis a Promethean flame
Bright as the Orbs from whence it came,
So heav'nly and divine,
Immortal too, that feeds this heart of mine.

Think not (fair Stella) then
That I can be inconstant, when
That love can never die
That borrows flames from your celestial eie.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “To Clarastella. Loves Constancie.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/27/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “To Clarastella. Loves Constancie.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/27/.

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