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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DITTY, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears, flow no more; or if you needs must flow
Last Line: To dry those tears and to blow out those fires?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
First Line: Tears, flow no more; or if you needs must flow
Last Line: To dry those tears and to blow out those fires?
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Tears, flow no more! or if you needs must flow,
Fall yet more slow,
Do not the world invade.
From smaller springs than yours rivers have grown,
And they again a sea have made
Brackish like you, and which like you hath flown.
Ebb to my heart, and on the burning fires
Of my desires
Let your torrents fall.
From smaller sparks than theirs such sparks arise
As into flame converting all,
This world might be but my love's sacrifice.
Yet if, the tempests of my sighs so slow,
You both must flow
And my desires still burn,
Since that in vain all help my love requires,
Why may not yet their rages turn
To dry those tears and to blow out those fires?
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