Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DISCRETION, by ABRAHAM COWLEY


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First Line: Discreet? What means this word discreet?
Last Line: When they're bound naked to the stake.
Subject(s): Discretion; Love


1.

DIscreet? What means this word Discreet?
se on all Discretion!
This barbarous term you will not meet
In all Love's Lexicon.

2.

Joynture, Portion, Gold, Estate,
Houses, Houshold-stuffe, or Land,
(The Low Conveniencies of Fate)
Are Greek, no Lovers understand.

3.

Believe me, beauteous one, when Love
Enters into a brest,
The two first things it does remove,
Are Friends and Interest.

4.

Passion's halfe blind, nor can endure
The carefull, scrup'lous Eyes,
Or else I could not love, I'me sure,
One who in Love were wise.

5.

Men, in such tempests tost about,
Will, without griefe or paine,
Cast all their goods and riches out,
Themselves their Port to gaine.

6.

As well might Martyrs, who do choose
That sacred Death to take,
Mourn for the Clothes which they must loose,
When they're bound naked to the Stake.






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