Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE TURTLE DOVES, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO


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First Line: Ye happy pair of turtle doves
Last Line: That are the emblem of true-love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus
Subject(s): Love; Turtledoves


YE happy pair of turtle doves,
Renewing still your former loves,
Who on one bough, both sing one song,
Have but one care, one heart, one tongue;

Whilst our Loves varying as our fate,
Can scarce sometimes be known from Hate;
You to your first amours are true,
Would we could pattern take by you.

What force of love amongst us, tell,
Such opposition can compel?
If from some powerful fire it spring,
Whence all this cold and shivering?

From cold if Love's strange force arise
How are our hearts his sacrifice?
This myst'ry I can ne'er unfold,
Why Love is rul'd by heat and cold.

You might the scruple best remove
That are the emblem of TRUE-LOVE.





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