1. I co'd never love indeed; Never see mine own heart bleed: Never crucifie my life; Or for Widow, Maid, or Wife. 2. I co'd never seeke to please One, or many Mistresses: Never like their lips, to sweare Oyle of Roses still smelt there. 3. I co'd never breake my sleepe, Fold mine Armes, sob, sigh, or weep: Never beg, or humbly wooe With oathes, and lyes, (as others do.) 4. I co'd never walke alone; Put a shirt of sackcloth on: Never keep a fast, or pray For good luck in love (that day.) 5. But have hitherto liv'd free, As the aire that circles me: And kept credit with my heart, Neither broke i'th whole, or part. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO HIS FORSAKEN MISTRESS by ROBERT AYTON AFTER WINTER by STERLING ALLEN BROWN ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION) by ALEXANDER POPE ON CHLORIS WALKING IN THE SNOW by WILLIAM STRODE THE INDIAN UPON GOD by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 18. TO THE HON. FRANCIS EARL OF HUNTINGDON by MARK AKENSIDE |