Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 16, by RICHARD BARNFIELD


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SONNET: 16, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long have I long'd to see my love againe
Last Line: Thus with ixion, feele I endles paine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Absense; Love


Long have I long'd to see my Love againe,
Still have I wisht, but never could obtaine it;
Rather than all the world (if I might gaine it)
Would I desire my loves sweet precious gaine.
Yet in my soule I see him everie day,
See him, and see his still sterne countenaunce,
But (ah) what is of long continuance,
Where Maiestie and Beautie beares the sway?
Sometimes, when I imagine that I see him,
(As love is full of foolish fantasies)
Weening to kisse his lips, as my loves fee's,
I feele but Aire: nothing but Aire to bee him.
Thus with Ixion, kisse I clouds in vaine:
Thus with Ixion, feele I endles paine.





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