Volume Ii Part 48 (2/2)

This is my love for you.

Mayhap in the night, When the dark beats back the light, I shall struggle too...

This is my love for you.

In your dream, once more, Will a star lead to my door?

To stars and dreams be true This is my love for you...

Grace Fallow Norton [1876-

MY LADY'S LIPS

LIPS AND EYES From ”Blurt, Master Constable”

Love for such a cherry lip Would be glad to p.a.w.n his arrows; Venus here to take a sip Would sell her doves and team of sparrows.

But they shall not so; Hey nonny, nonny no!

None but I this lip must owe; Hey nonny, nonny no!

Did Jove see this wanton eye, Ganymede must wait no longer; Phoebe here one night did lie, Would change her face and look much younger.

But they shall not so; Hey nonny, nonny no!

None but I this lip must owe; Hey nonny, nonny no!

Thomas Middleton [1570?-1627]

THE KISS From ”Cynthia's Revels”

O that joy so soon should waste!

Or so sweet a bliss As a kiss Might not for ever last!

So sugared, so melting, so soft, so delicious, The dew that lies on roses, When the morn herself discloses, Is not so precious.

O, rather than I would it smother, Were I to taste such another, It should be my wis.h.i.+ng That I might die with kissing.

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