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Amorea, The Lost Lover

Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin

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To my dear friend on his Amorea.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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To my dear friend on his Amorea.

VVhat in the wars and yet a Poet, then
Tell me the difference 'twixt the sword, and pen
Canst thou with one hand grasp the tempred steel,
And in the other holde thy loved quill,
Be angry in a moment and yet prove
Thy anger onely doth proceed from love:
This day be bravely mounted in the street,
To morrow prostrate at thy Ladies feet?
Write Sonnets in the morning; and ere night
Be deep ingaged in some cruell fight,
Just now a going to a Nuptiall
And presently cal'd to the Funeral
Of some new Slaughtered friend, how can this be
Why thus, the question's plain enough, for we.
(That read thy Poems needs) must do thee right
For thou canst fight, and love, and love, and fight.
R. H.