Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by THOMAS SPRAT


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ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by                    
First Line: Sweet stream, that dost with equal pace
Last Line: These tears, these tears shall mend thy way.
Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Love; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


SWEET stream, that dost with equal pace
Both thyself fly, and thyself chase,
Forbear awhile to flow,
And listen to my woe.
Then go, and tell the sea that all its brine
Is fresh, compar'd to mine;
Inform it that the gentle dame,
Who was the life of all my flame,
In th' glory of her bud
Has pass'd the fatal flood.
Death by this only stroke triumphs above
The greatest power of love:
Alas, alas! I must give o'er,
My sighs will let me add no more.

Go on, sweet stream, and henceforth rest
No more than does my troubled breast;
And if my sad complaints have made thee stay,
These tears, these tears shall mend thy way.





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