Love

Song

by Sir Charles Sedley 1639–1701

From The English Poets, ed. T. H. Ward (1880)

Love

Phillis is my only joy,
Faithless as the winds or seas,
Sometimes coming, sometimes coy,
Yet she never fails to please;
If with a frown
I am cast down,
Phillis, smiling
And beguiling,
Makes me happier than before.

Though, alas! too late I find
Nothing can her fancy fix,
Yet the moment she is kind
I forgive her all her tricks;
Which though I see,
I can't get free;
She deceiving,
I believing,
What need lovers wish for more?

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Sedley, Charles. “Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sedley/94/.

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