Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR


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First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain
Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes.
Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise


COME, weep no more, for 'tis in vain;
Torment not thus your pretty heart;
Think, Flavia, we may meet again,
As well as, that we now must part.

You sigh and weep; the gods neglect
That precious dew your eyes let fall:
Our joy and grief with like respect
They mind; and that is, not at all.

We pray, in hopes they will be kind,
As if they did regard our state:
They hear; and the return we find
Is, that no prayers can alter fate.

Then clear your brow, and look more gay,
Do not yourself to grief resign;
Who knows but that those powers may
The pair, they now have parted, join!

but, since they have thus cruel been,
And could such constant lovers sever;
I dare not trust, lest now they're in,
They should divide us two for ever.

Then, Flavia, come, and let us grieve,
Remembering though upon what score;
This our last parting look believe,
Believe we must embrace no more.

Yet, should our sun shine out at last;
And fortune, without more deceit,
Throw but one reconciling cast,
To make two wandering lovers meet;

How great then would our pleasure be,
To find Heaven kinder than believed;
And we, who had no hopes to see
Each other, to be thus deceived!

But say, should Heaven bring no relief,
Suppose our sun should never rise:
Why then what's due to such a grief,
We've paid already with our eyes.





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