Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MADRIGAL, by JOHN FARMER


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MADRIGAL, by                    
First Line: You pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake
Last Line: Feeding mine eyes redoubles tear for tear.
Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Tears


YOU pretty flowers that smile for summer's sake
Pull in your heads before my watery eyes
Do turn the meadows to a standing lake,
By whose untimely floods your glory dies
For lo, my heart resolved to moistening air
Feeding mine eyes redoubles tear for tear.





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