Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by LOUISE LABE


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First Line: O soft brown eyes, o glances turned away
Last Line: That not one spark upon yourself you turn.
Alternate Author Name(s): La Belle Cordiere


O SOFT brown eyes, O glances turned away,
O burning sighs, and tears so often shed,
Dark nights in vain awaited, vainly fled,
And O, the vain returns of shining day.

O sad complaints, O longings nought can stay,
O useless toils, O time all vainly sped,
O thousand deaths in thousand nets outspread,
O still worse woes for me their destined prey.

O hand, arms, fingers, laughter, forehead, hair;
O voice, and plaintiff lute, and viol rare;
So many flames one woman's heart to burn.

I blame you of so many fires possest,
Which from so many sources scorch my breast,
That not one spark upon yourself you turn.





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