Now let her change and spare not! Since she proves strange I care not: Feigned love charmed so my delight That still I doted on her sight. But she is gone, new joys embracing And my desires disgracing. When did I err in blindness, Or vex her with unkindness? If my cares served her alone, Why is she thus untimely gone? True love abides to th' hour of dying: False love is ever flying. False! then, farewell for ever! Once false proves faithful never: He that boasts now of thy love, Shall soon my present fortunes prove. Were he as fair as bright Adonis, Faith is not had, where none is. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MODERN PARAPHRASE OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNET 29 by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE LOST SHEEP by ELIZABETH CECILIA CLEPHANE MUSIC IN CAMP by JOHN REUBEN THOMPSON ROOTS AND LEAVES THEMSELVES ALONE by WALT WHITMAN TO THE NEW YEAR, 1823 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |