Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, UPON SOME ALTERATION IN MY MISTRESS, AFTER MY DEPARTURE INTO FRANCE, by THOMAS CAREW


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First Line: O gentle love, do not forsake the guide
Last Line: In the deep flood she drown'd her beamy face.
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


O GENTLE love, do not forsake the guide
Of my frail bark, on which the swelling tide
Of ruthless pride
Doth beat, and threaten wrack from every side.
Gulfs of disdain do gape to overwhelm
This boat, nigh sunk with grief, whilst at the helm
Despair commands;
And, round about, the shifting sands
Of faithless love and false inconstancy,
With rocks of cruelty,
Stop up my passage to the neighbour lands.

My sighs have rais'd those winds, whose fury bears
My sails o'erboard, and in their place spreads fears;
And from my tears
This sea is sprung, where naught but death appears.
A misty cloud of anger hides the light
Of my fair star; and everywhere black night
Usurps the place
Of those bright rays which once did grace
My forth-bound ship: but when it could no more
Behold the vanish'd shore,
In the deep flood she drown'd her beamy face.





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