Love
L’envoy
From Ballads and Lyrics of Old France, with Other Poems
Love
Princess, by whom my hope is fed,
My heart thee prays in lowlihead
To prune the ill boughs overgrown,
Nor slay Love’s tree, nor plant instead
Another tree, save this alone.
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MLA
Lang, Andrew. “L’envoy.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lang/151/.
Chicago
Lang, Andrew. “L’envoy.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lang/151/.
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