Trivial poems and triolets. Written in obedience to Mrs Tomkin's commands, By Patrick Carey |
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[Cease t'exaggerate your anguish] |
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[Cease t'exaggerate your anguish]
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Cease t'exaggerate your anguish,Ye, who for the gout complayne!
Louers, that in absence languish,
Onely know, indeed, what's payne.
2
If the choyce were in my power,Sooner much the racke I'de choose,
Then, for th'short space of an hour,
My deare Stella's sight to lose.
3
Sometimes feare, sometimes desireSeaze (by cruell turnes) my heart;
Now a frost, and then a fire
('Las!) I feele in eu'ry part.
4
Horrid change of paynes! O leaue mee,With my death else end your spight!
Absence doth as much bereaue mee
As death can, of her lou'd sight.
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5
Thus (deare Stella) thy poore louerHis unlucky fate bemoanes;
Whilst his parting soule does houer
'Bout his lippes; wing'd by sad groanes.
6
Yett thou may'st from death repriue him;Loue such power to Stella giues:
With thy sight thou canst reuiue him;
As thou wilt hee dyes, or liues.
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