Farewell, dear Love! since thou wilt needs be gone: Mine eyes do show my life is almost done. Nay, I never will die So long as I can spy; There be many moe Though that she do go. There be many moe, I fear not. Why then, let her go, I care not. Farewell, farewell! since this I find is true, I will not spend more time in wooing you. But I will seek elsewhere If I may find her there. Shall I bid her go? What and if I do? Shall I bid her go, and spare not? Oh, no, no, no, no, I dare not. Ten thousand times farewell! Yet stay awhile, Sweet, kiss me once; sweet kisses time beguile. I have no power to move: How now, am I in love? Wilt thou needs be gone? Go then, all is one. Wilt thou needs be gone? Oh, hie thee! Nay; stay, and do no more deny me. Once more farewell! I see "loth to depart' Bids oft adieu to her that holds my heart. But, seeing I must lose Thy love which I did choose. Go thy ways for me, Since it may not be. Go thy ways for me. But whither? Go, oh, but where I may come thither. What shall I do? My love is now departed. She is as fair as she is cruel-hearted: She would not be entreated With prayers oft repeated. If she come no more, Shall I die therefore? If she come no more, what care I? Faith, let her go, or come, or tarry! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LONDON WIND by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA THE BLUNDER by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE WHEN TIME WAS YOUNG by SARITA HOLT BROWNLEE CHARADES: 4 by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 62 by BLISS CARMAN THE HUNTING OF THE HARE by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH |