1. NOw by my Love, the greatest Oath that is, None loves you halfe so well as I: I do not ask your Love for this; But for heaven's sake believe me, or I dy. No Servant ere, but did deserve His Master should believe that he does serve; And I'le ask no more wages, though I sterve. 2. 'Tis no luxurious Diet this, and sure I shall not by 't too lusty prove; Yet shall it willingly endure, If't can but keep together Life and Love. Being your Prisoner and your slave, I do not Feasts and Banquets look to have, A little Bread and Water's all I crave. 3. On a sigh of Pity I a yeer can live, One Tear will keep me twenty at least, Fifty a gentle look will give; An hundred years on one kind word I'le feast: A thousand more will added be, If you an Inclination have for Mee; And all beyond is vast Eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FAIR HARVARD by GEORGE SANTAYANA FOR G. by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON MILTON'S PRAYER [OF PATIENCE, OR, IN BLINDNESS] by ELIZABETH LLOYD HOWELL TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: SCANDERBERG by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW DAWN ON THE HILLS (FROM A HOTEL WINDOW) by LILLIAN ATCHERSON |