124 TO ANTHEA WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANY THING. TO ANTHEA, WHO MAY COMMAND HIM BID me to live, and I will live Or bid me love, and I will give A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find— Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree: Or bid it languish quite away, Bid me to weep, and I will weep Bid me despair, and I'll despair Thou art my life, my love, my heart, And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee. R. Herrick. LOVE'S UNSELFISHNESS. 125 LOVE'S UNSELFISHNESS. PHILLIS, men say that all my vows Were I of all these woods the lord, My humble love has learned to live Sir Charles Sedley. Yesternight the sun went hence, He hath no desire nor sense, Then fear not me, But believe that I shall make More wings and spurs than he. 3. O how feeble is man's pow'r! That, if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall; But come bad chance, And we join to it our strength, TO HIS LOVE: ON GOING A JOURNEY. 4. When thou sigh'st thou sigh'st not wind, My life's blood doth decay. That thou lov'st me as thou say'st Which art the life of me. 5. Let not thy divining heart Destiny may take thy part Are but laid aside to sleep. Dr. John Donne. 127 128 TO LUCASTA (ON GOING TO THE WARS). TO LUCASTA (ON GOING TO THE WARS). TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind,— Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind True, a new mistress now I chase, Yet this inconstancy is such I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace. |