Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 21, by THOMAS CAMPION


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First Line: Sweet, come again / your happy sight, so much desired
Last Line: To me return again.
Subject(s): Absence


SWEET, come again!
Your happy sight, so much desired,
Since you from hence are now retired,
I seek in vain:
Still must I mourn
And pine in longing pain,
Till you, my life's delight, again
Vouchsafe your wished return.

If true desire,
Or faithful vow of endless love,
Thy heart inflamed may kindly move
With equal fire;
O then my joys,
So long distraught, shall rest,
Reposed soft in thy chaste breast,
Exempt from all annoys.

You had the power
My wandering thoughts first to restrain,
You first did hear my love speak plain!
A child before,
Now it is grown
Confirmed, do you it keep,
And let it safe in your bosom sleep,
There ever made your own!

And till we meet,
Teach absence inward art to find,
Both to disturb and please the mind.
Such thoughts are sweet:
And such remain
In hearts whose flames are true;
Then such will I retain, till you
To me return again.





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