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The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath
Wroth, Mary (ca. 1586-ca. 1640)

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Urania
  
[Vnseene, vnknowne, I here alone complaine]
  
[Here all alone in silence might I mourne]
  
[Heart drops distilling like a new cut-vine]
  
[Adieu sweet Sun]
  
[Beare part with me most straight and pleasant Tree]
  
[My thoughts thou hast supported without rest]
  
[Drowne me not you cruell teares]
  
[The Sunne hath no long iourney now to goe]
  
[Sweete solitarines, ioy to those hearts]
  
[Deare Loue, alas, how haue I wronged thee]
  
[Stay mine eyes, these floods of teares]
  
[Deare, how doe thy winning eyes]
  
[Loue what art thou? A vaine thought]
  
[Who can blame me if I loue?]
  
[Pray thee Diana tell mee, is it ill]
  
[Teares some times flow from mirth, as well as sorrow]
  
[How doe I finde my soules extreamest anguish]
  
[Gone is my ioy, while here I mourne]
  
[When I with trembling aske if you loue still]
  
[You powers diuine of loue-commanding eyes]
  
[You pure and holy fire]
  
[Loue peruse me, seeke, and finde]
  
[From victory in loue I now am come]
  
[I who doe feele the highest part of griefe]
  
[Blame me not dearest, though grieued for your sake]
  
[Loue among the clouds did houer]
  
[Infernall Spirits listen to my moanes]
  
[The ioy yon say the Heauens in motion trie]
  
[As these drops fall: so Hope drops now on me]
  
[You, who ending neuer saw]
  
[Cruell Remembrance alas now be still]
  
[Vnquiet griefe, search further in my heart]
  
[Losse my molester at last patient be]
  
[O that I might but now as senselesse bee]
  
[Deare, though vnconstant, these I send to you]
  
[Why doe you so much wish for raine, when I]
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Lindamira's Complaint.
  
[From a long way, and Pilgrimage for Loue]
  
[Did I boast of liberty?]
  
[Loue farewell I now discouer]
  
[Faithfull louers keepe from hence]
  
[Egypts Pyramid's inclose their Kings]
  
[If a cleere fountaine still keeping a sad course]
  
[That which to some their wishes ends present]
  
[Fond aged man, why doe you on me gaze]
  
[A Sheephard who no care did take.]
  
[Rise, rise from sluggishnes, fly fast my Deere]
  
[Haue I lost my liberty]
  
[Loue growne proud with victory]
  
[This no wonder's of much waight]
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PAMPHILIA, TO AMPHILANTHVS.

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[I who doe feele the highest part of griefe]

I who doe feele the highest part of griefe,
shall I be left without reliefe?
I who for you, doe cruell torments beare,
will you alasse leaue me in feare?
Know comfort neuer could more welcome bee,
then in this needfull time to mee,
One drop of comfort will be higher prized
then seas of ioyes, if once despiz'd,
Turne not the tortures which for you I try
vpon my hart, to make me dye.
Haue I offended? 'twas at your desire,
when by your vowes you felt loues fire.
What I did erre in, was to please your will
can you get, and the ofspring kill?
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The greatest fault, which I committed haue
is you did aske, I freely gaue.
Kindly relent, let causlesse curstnes flye,
giue but one sigh, I bless'd shall dye.
But O you cannot, I haue much displeas'd
striuing to gaine, I losse haue seaz'd.
My state I see, and you your ends haue gain'd
I'me lost since you haue me obtain'd.
And since I cannot please your first desire
I'le blow, and nourish scorners fire
As Salimanders in the fire doe liue:
so shall those flames my being giue.
And though against your will, I liue and moue,
forsaken creatures liue and loue
Doe you proceed, and you may well confesse
you wrong'd my care, while I care lesse.
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