Love

From a Child.

by Edmund Waller 1606–1687

Love

AS in some Climes the warmer Sun
Makes it full Summer e're the Spring's begun'
And with ripe fruit the bending boughs can load,
Before our Violets dare look abroad:
So measure not by any common use,
The early Love your brighter eyes produce.
When lately your fair hand in womens weed,
Wrap't my glad head, I wish't me so indeed,
That h…sty time might never make me grow
Out of those favours you afford me now;
That I might ever such indulgence sind,
And you not blush, or think your self too kind,
Who now I fear while I these joys express,
Begin to think how you may make them less;
The sound of Love makes your soft heart afraid,
And guard it self, though but a Child invade,
And innocently at your white brest throw
A Dart as white, a Ball of new faln snow.

MLA

Waller, Edmund. “From a Child.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/waller/41/.

Chicago

Waller, Edmund. “From a Child.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/waller/41/.

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