Love

Virtues Vrania.

by Sir Charles Sedley 1639–1701

Love

HOpeless I languish out my days,
Struck with Urania's conqu'ring eyes:
The wretch at whom she darts these rayes
Must feel the wound untill he dies.

Though endless be her cruelty,
Calling her beauties to my mind,
I bow beneath her tyranny,
And dare not murmur she's unkind

Reason this tamness does upbraid,
Proff…ing to arm in my defence;
But when I call her to my aid,
She's more a Traitor then my sense.

No sooner I the warr declare
But strait her succour she denies,
And joyning forces with the fair,
Confirms the conquest of her ey…s.

MLA

Sedley, Charles. “Virtues Vrania.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sedley/14/.

Chicago

Sedley, Charles. “Virtues Vrania.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sedley/14/.

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