How should'st thou love, and not offend? Why, Chloris, I will tell thee how, As thou did'st once, so love me now, And lie with me, and there's an end. Thou only art enjoin'd (my Sweet) To keep thy reputation high, And that indeed is secrecy, Since all do err, though all not see 't. Then Fairest, fearless of all blame, That sacred treasure of thy name Into my faithful arms commit; Thou once did'st trust me with thy fame, I then was just and true to it, And, Chloris, I am still the same. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TELL'S BIRTHPLACE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A TRUE HYMN [HYMNE] by GEORGE HERBERT VERLAINE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 53. WITHOUT HER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE PROSPECTOR by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE LETTY'S GLOBE by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |