The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney In Three Volumes |
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[If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave]
If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave,
Or thinking still my thoughts might have good end:
If rebell sence would reasons law receave;
Or reason foyld would not in vaine contend:
Then might I thinke what thoughts were best to thinke:
Then might I wisely swimme or gladly sinke.
Or thinking still my thoughts might have good end:
If rebell sence would reasons law receave;
Or reason foyld would not in vaine contend:
Then might I thinke what thoughts were best to thinke:
Then might I wisely swimme or gladly sinke.
If either you would change your cruell hart,
Or cruell (still) time did your beautie staine:
If from my soule this love would once depart,
Or for my love some love I might obtaine,
Then might I hope a change or ease of minde,
By your good helpe, or in my selfe to finde.
Or cruell (still) time did your beautie staine:
If from my soule this love would once depart,
Or for my love some love I might obtaine,
Then might I hope a change or ease of minde,
By your good helpe, or in my selfe to finde.
But since my thoughts in thinking still are spent,
With reasons strife, by senses overthrowne,
You fairer still, and still more cruell bent,
I loving still a love that loveth none.
I yeeld and strive, I kisse and curse the paine:
Thought, reason, sense, time, you, and I, maintaine.
With reasons strife, by senses overthrowne,
You fairer still, and still more cruell bent,
I loving still a love that loveth none.
I yeeld and strive, I kisse and curse the paine:
Thought, reason, sense, time, you, and I, maintaine.
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