1. DIscreet? What means this word Discreet? se on all Discretion! This barbarous term you will not meet In all Love's Lexicon. 2. Joynture, Portion, Gold, Estate, Houses, Houshold-stuffe, or Land, (The Low Conveniencies of Fate) Are Greek, no Lovers understand. 3. Believe me, beauteous one, when Love Enters into a brest, The two first things it does remove, Are Friends and Interest. 4. Passion's halfe blind, nor can endure The carefull, scrup'lous Eyes, Or else I could not love, I'me sure, One who in Love were wise. 5. Men, in such tempests tost about, Will, without griefe or paine, Cast all their goods and riches out, Themselves their Port to gaine. 6. As well might Martyrs, who do choose That sacred Death to take, Mourn for the Clothes which they must loose, When they're bound naked to the Stake. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CRADLE SONG by WILLIAM BLAKE EPITHALAMION MADE AT LINCOLNES INNE by JOHN DONNE WOMAN'S CONSTANCY by JOHN DONNE BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: MRS. BENJAMIN PANTIER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE LAIRD O' COCKPEN by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 20 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |