Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DITTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography First Line: If you refuse me once, and think again Last Line: And keep an everlasting spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord | ||||||||
IF you refuse me once, and think again I will complain, You are deceiv'd: love is no work of art, It must be got and born, Not made and worn, Or such wherein you have no part. Or do you think they more than once can die, Whom you deny, Who tell you of a thousand deaths a day, Like the old poets feign, And tell the pain They met but in the common way? Or do you think it is too soon to yield, And quit the field? You are deceiv'd, they yield who first entreat; Once one may crave for love, But more would prove This heart too little, that too great. Give me then so much love that we may burn Past all return. Who midst your beauty's flames and spirit lives, So great a light must find As to be blind To all but what their fire gives. Then give me so much love, as in one point Fix'd and conjoint, May make us equal in our flames arise, As we shall never start Until we dart Lightning upon the envious eyes. Then give me so much love that we may move Like stars of love, And glad and happy times to lovers bring; While glorious in one sphere We still appear, And keep an everlasting Spring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL by EDWARD HERBERT EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... by EDWARD HERBERT TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP by EDWARD HERBERT A DESCRIPTION by EDWARD HERBERT A DITTY MADE BY LORENZO ALLEGRE TO ONE SLEEPING TO BE SUNG by EDWARD HERBERT A DIVINE LOVE by EDWARD HERBERT A MEDITATION UPON HIS WAX CANDLE BURNING OUT by EDWARD HERBERT A MERRY RHYME SENT TO THE LADY WROTH .. BIRTH OF LORD PEMBROKE'S CHILD by EDWARD HERBERT |
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