Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UNALTERED BY SICKNESS, by THOMAS STANLEY


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First Line: Sickness, in vain thou dost invade
Last Line: For what's her beauty, is our fate.
Subject(s): Love; Sickness; Illness


SICKNESS, in vain thou dost invade
A Beauty that can never fade!
Could all thy malice but impair
One of the sweets which crown this fair,
Or steal the spirits from her eye,
Or kiss into a paler dye
The blushing roses of her cheek,
Our drooping hopes might justly seek
Redress from thee, and thou might'st save
Thousands of lovers from the grave:
But such assaults are vain, for she
Is too divine to stoop to thee;
Blest with a form as much too high
For any change, as Destiny,
Which no attempt can violate;
For what's her Beauty, is our Fate.





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