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; 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 bared 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. Whose sweet aspect both god and man can move Edmund Spenser. 22 THE NIGHTINGALE. THE NIGHTINGALE. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade 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. |