Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOVE POEMS: 3, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)


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First Line: Not long agone a youthful swain
Last Line: "o let her love me less, or I like more."
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Love - Complaints


NOT long agone a youthful swain,
Much wronged by a maid's disdain,
Before Love's altar came and did implore
That he might like her less, or she love more.
The god him heard, and she began
To dote on him; he, foolish man,
Cloy'd with much sweets, thus chang'd his note before,
"O let her love me less, or I like more."





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