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ARTIFICE DISOWNED BY LOVE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot think love thrives by artifice
Last Line: Doth show its wish at once, and means no more!
Subject(s): Love - Nature Of


I CANNOT think love thrives by artifice,
Or can disguise its mood, and show its face.
I would not hide one portion of my heart
Where I did give it and did feel 'twas right,
Nor feign a wish, to mask a wish that was,
Howe'er to keep it. for no cause except
Myself would I be loved. What were't to me,
My lover valued me the more, the more
He saw me comely in another's eyes,
When his alone the vision I would show,
Becoming to? I have sought the reason oft,
They paint love as a child, and still have thought
It was because true love, like infancy,
Frank, trusting, unobservant of its mood,
Doth show its wish at once, and means no more!





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