Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE ENCREASE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY


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First Line: I thought, I'le swear, I could have lov'd no more
Last Line: That loves's a motion naturall to me.
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


1.

I Thought, I'le swear, I could have lov'd no more
Then I had done before;
But you as easily might account
'Till to the topp of numbers you amount,
As cast up my Love's score.
Ten thousand millions was the summe;
Millions of endlesse Millions are to come.

2.

I'm sure her Beauties cannot greater grow;
Why should my Love do so?
A reall cause at first did move;
But mine own Fancy now drives on my Love,
With shadowes from it self that flow.
My Love, as we in Numbers see,
By Cyphers is encreast eternally.

3.

So the new-made, and untride Sphears above,
Took their first turne from th' Hand of Jove;
But are since that beginning found
By their own Formes to move for ever round.
All violent Motions short do prove,
But by the length 'tis plain to see
That Loves's a Motion Naturall to me.





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