I might by no means surmise My fantasy to resist, But after the old guise To love her I did list. And though it must suffice That again I shall have none, Yet can I not devise To get again mine own. It is my heart that I have lost. God send it me again. I should it have whatever it cost Or else I am but slain. I study day and night And loud I cry and call To be delivered quite From her that I am thrall. And yet against all right Of force I must still moan For it doth pass my might To get again mine own. It is my heart that I have lost. God send it me again. I should it have whatever it cost Or else I am but slain. In torments I am torn That no rest find I can, None so unhappy born Since that the world began. I ask for but such corn And such seed that was sown; And though I that have sworn, I cannot get mine own. It is my heart that I have lost. God send it me again. I should it have whatever it cost Or else I am but slain. But seeing that I cannot Attain my true desire Nor by no means may not Creep out of the fire, [And know that you intend not] To give aught of your own By reason that you should not -- Let me to have mine own. It is my heart that I have lost. God send it me again. I should it have whatever it cost Or else I am but slain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STENOGRAPHERS by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE MUIOPOTMOS, OR THE FATE OF THE BUTTERFLIE by EDMUND SPENSER THE GYPSIES [OR, GIPSIES] by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD A STRANGER IN SEYTHOPOLIS by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE THREE PLEASURES by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX AN EPITAPH ON MR.WM. HOPTON by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) EPIGRAM ON ONE BORN BLIND, AND SO DEAD by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) MASQUE AT THE MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF SOMERSET: SONG (1) by THOMAS CAMPION |