@3Shepherdess.@1 Tell me @3Thirsis@1, tell your Anguish, Why you Sigh, and why you Languish; When the Nymph whom you Adore, Grants the Blessing of Possessing, What can Love and I do more? @3Shepherd.@1 Think it's Love beyond all Measure, Makes me faint away with Pleasure; Strength of Cordial may destroy, And the Blessing of possessing Kills me with Excess of Joy. @3Shepherdess. Thirsis@1, how can I believe you? But confess and I'le forgive you; Men are false, and so are you; Never Nature fram'd a Creature To enjoy, and yet be true. @3Shepherd.@1 Mine's a Flame beyond expiring, Still possessing, still desiring, Fit for Love's imperial Crown; Ever shining, and refining, Still the more 'tis melted down. @3Chorus together.@1 Mine's a Flame beyond expiring, Still possessing, still desiring, Fit for Love's imperial Crown; Ever shining, and refining, Still the more 'tis melted down. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FINIS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ.; POET LAUREATE AND HISTOGRAPHER ROYAL by PHILIP AYRES THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT by RICHARD BARNFIELD PSALM 1; DONE INTO VERSE 1653 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE FLIGHT OF TIME by J. K. BLAKE THE SOUL'S MUTINY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT PARACELSUS: 3. PARACELSUS by ROBERT BROWNING |