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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GREEN-SICKNESS BEAUTY (2), by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography
First Line: From thy pale look while angry love doth seem
Last Line: Gave but occasion to suspect it more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
First Line: From thy pale look while angry love doth seem
Last Line: Gave but occasion to suspect it more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
FROM thy pale look while angry love doth seem
With more imperiousness to give his law
Than where he blushingly doth beg esteem,
We may observe pi'd beauty in such awe,
That the brav'st colour under her command,
Affrighted, oft before you doth retire,
While, like a statue of yourself, you stand
In such symmetric form as doth require
No lustre but his own. As then in vain
One should flesh-colouring to statues add,
So were it to your native white a stain,
If it in other ornaments were clad
Than what your rich proportions do give,
Which in a boundless fair being unconfin'd,
Exalted in your soul so seem to live
That they become an emblem of your mind,
That so who to your orient white should join
Those fading qualities most eyes adore,
Were but like one, who, gilding silver coin,
Gave but occasion to suspect it more.
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