Love
Upon the First Sight of My Lady Seymour
From Works (Thompson, 1910)
Wonder not much, if thus amaz'd I look ;
Since I saw you, I have been planet-strook :
A beauty, and so rare, I did descry.
As, should I set her forth, you all, as I,
Would lose your hearts ; for he that can
Know her and live, he must be more than man
An apparition of so sweet a creature.
That, credit me, she had not any feature
That did not speak her angel ! But no more
Such heavenly things as these we must adore,
Nor prattle of ; lest, when we do but touch,
Or strive to know, we wrong her too too much.
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Suckling, John. “Upon the First Sight of My Lady Seymour.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/58/.
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Suckling, John. “Upon the First Sight of My Lady Seymour.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/suckling/58/.
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