20 THE LOVER PROMISETH IMMORTALITY. THE LOVER PROMISETH IMMORTALITY. SHALL I compare thee to a summer's day? Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest. So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, W. Shakespeare. LOVE IN ABSENCE. 21 LOVE IN ABSENCE. LIKE as the culver on the barèd bough Mourn to myself the absence of my love, And wandering here and there all desolate, Seek with my plaints to match that mournful dove. Edmund Spenser. 22 THE NIGHTINGALE. THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Which a grove of myrtles made, Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow and plants did spring, Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee, King Pandion, he is dead, All thy friends are lapp'd in lead: Richard Barnefield. LOVE'S PERJURIES. 23 LOVE'S PERJURIES. ON a day, alack the day! Through the velvet leaves the wind Wish'd himself the heaven's breath. Ne'er to pluck thee from thy thorn: Youth so apt to pluck a sweet. That I am forsworn for thee: Thou for whom e'en Jove would swear W. Shakespeare. |