Sighing, and sadly sitting by my Love, He ask't the cause of my hearts sorrowing, Coniuring me by heavens eternall King To tell the cause which me so much did move. Compell'd: (quoth I) to thee will I confesse, Love is the cause; and only love it is That doth deprive me of my heavenly blisse. Love is the paine that doth my heart oppresse. And what is she (quoth he) whom thou do'st love? Looke in this glasse (quoth I) there shalt thou see The perfect forme of my faelicitie. When, thinking that it would strange Magique prove, He open'd it: and taking off the cover, He straight perceav'd himselfe to be my Lover. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROAD TO FRANCE by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON THE DAUGHTER OF MENDOZA by MIRABEAU BONAPARTE LAMAR THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: DEDICATORY SONNET by EDMUND SPENSER THE MAN WHO DREAMED OF FAERYLAND by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A NEW PILGRIMAGE: 13 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT THE WANDERER: 3. IN ENGLAND: MATRIMONIAL COUNSELS by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THE ETERNAL FEMININE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON SONG OF PEACE WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF LADY AUSTEN by WILLIAM COWPER |