Love
Caelia: The Same Varied
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Love
WERE Caelia absent and remembrance brought
Her and past raptures thick upon my thought
The next kind She might meet my rais'd desire
And beastly Lust quench Loves disabl'd Fire.
But when I want my Friend, when my vex't heart
Beats short, and pants and seeks its nobler part
For the sad Ill no medi'cine can be found
'Tis You that made, 'tis You must cure the Wound.
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Prior, Matthew. “Caelia: The Same Varied.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/261/.
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Prior, Matthew. “Caelia: The Same Varied.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/261/.
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