Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 14, by RICHARD BARNFIELD


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SONNET: 14, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here: hold this glove (this milk-white cheveril glove)
Last Line: Then glove is love: and so I send it thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard
Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men


Here; hold this glove (this milk-white cheveril glove)
Not quaintly over-wrought with curious knots,
Not deckt with golden spangs, nor silver spots,
Yet wholsome for thy hand as thou shalt prove.
Ah no: (sweet boy) place this glove neere thy heart,
Weare it, and lodge it still within thy brest,
So shalt thou make me (most unhappy,) blest.
So shalt thou rid my paine, and ease my smart:
How can that be (perhaps) thou wilt reply,
A glove is for the hand not for the heart,
Nor can it well be prov'd by common art,
Nor reasons rule. To this, thus answere I:
If thou from glove do'st take away the g,
Then glove is love: and so I send it thee.





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