Love

The Twofold Power of Love

by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 1517–1547

From Poems (ed. Padelford, 1920)

Love

Yf he that erst the fourme so livelye drewe
Of Venus faas, tryvmpht in paynteres arte,
Thy father then what glorye did ensew,
By whose pencell a goddesse made thow arte!
Touchid with flame, that figure made some rewe,
And with her love surprysed manye a hart;
There lackt yet that should cure their hoot desyer:
Thow canst enflame and quenche the kyndled fyre.

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