Death & Dying
The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.
Death & Dying
BLack Maid, complain not that I fly,
When Fate commands Antipathy:
Prodigious might that union prove,
Where Night and Day together move,
And the conjunction of our lips
Not kisses make, but an Eclipse;
In which the mixed black and white
Portends more terrour than delight.
Yet if my shadow thou wilt be,
Enjoy thy dearest wish: But see
Thou take my shadowes property,
That hastes away when I come nigh:
Else stay till death hath blinded mee,
And then I will bequeath my self to thee.
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MLA
King, Henry. “The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/king/5/.
Chicago
King, Henry. “The Boyes answer to the Blackmoor.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/king/5/.
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